AP World History Chapter 33 – Flashcards

Revolutionary counsels organized by socialists and formally known in the USSR

A term used to refer to the Triple Entente and all their colonies and allies

A mysterious,deadly, and short-lived disease that appeared after WWI

A disease that was able to use WWI to spread across the world and kill 20 million people

The alliance formed between Italy, Austria-Hungary, and Germany.

The name given to the nations in the Triple alliance

The losing side of the first world war

The great Empire that fell after WWI and was part of the Central Powers

A poisonous gas invented by Germany to use in trench warfare.

Yellow gas that killed an exposed person in 4 to 5 weeks coupled with unbearable pain and decaying of the organs

A Turkish rebel who successfully ousted all foreign powers from Anatolia.

The man who became president of the Ottoman Empire and made it into the Republic of Turkey

A doctrine that had ideas on how the world could achieve lasting world peace

Doctrine saying that there should open agreements on peace, constant freedom of seas, removal of all economic barriers, reduction in national armaments, and the formation of a unified organization consisting of the world's nations

An organization that consisted of many nations and is dedicated to world peace

An organization that was established through the Fourteen Points, but did not include the U.S.

An organization that relied on collective security, but had no military to enforce it's will of world peace and this is why it fell

A movement that desired the unity of all Slavs in one sovereign and independent nation.

A movement created by Russia in order to weaken Austria-Hungary's control on Serbia

The idea that people with the same language, ethnic background, and political ideas should have the right to form sovereign states

An ideology that inspired the fight for independence in many European controlled nations

The effectiveness of a nation's ability to mobilize and sustain it's military forces in a time of war.

A battleground of it's own where a nation seeks to recruit more soldiers for war and gradually control society and industrialized production.

The city of St.Petersburg

The city where the Russian Revolution started. From here the military would join the workers revolt and overthrow the tsar of Russia

A meeting at the end of WWI that laid out terms to be accepted by the defeated nations of WWI. Here the Treaties of Versailles, St.Germaine, and Trianon were outlined.

The last tsar to rule Russia. He was overthrown due to the starvation and oppression he put the Russian people through

A form of warfare commonly used in Europe during WWI

A tactic of digging a 5-foot trench to create an instant bunker. The only counter-measure at this time was to dig your own trench and kill those in the enemy trench.

When governments control the resources of their nation to win a war

When a nation attacks civilians of an enemy nation in order to harm their resources and production to win a war

the Treaty that pulled Russia out of WWI. Russia pulled out because of domestic problems (i.e. Russian Revolution)

President of the U.S. during WWI

Creator of the Fourteen Points

A leader who desired world peace, peace without victory, and supported self-determination in many nations

A policy that determined the fate of the German colonies in the Middle-East. It said that the nations in the middle-east were not yet capable of governing themselves in this modern world and had to be overseen and protected by an advanced nation

Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations

A system that concealed European imperialism in the Middle-east. It arose after WWI and looked like the victorious nations splitting up their spoils of war

The treaty that ended WWI

Stated that Germany had to take full responsibility for WWI, pay all the war reparations, and could never build up their military again or ally with Austria

occurs when two opposing nations are not having any victories and the war seems to slow, neither side nearing victory

This occurred on in Europe between the French and Germans during WWI

The terrorist organization in Serbia that was dedicated to uniting all Slavs by gaining independence from Austria-Hungary

The assassin from the Black Hand that killed Archduke Francis Ferdinand

The alliance between Russia,France,and Britain. Formed to keep the balance of power with the Triple alliance

The rebellion occurring in the Ottoman Empire led by Mustafa Kemal. It succeeded in ousting foreign powers from Anatolia and establishing the Republic of Turkey

The belief that your nation is the best and has the right to rule other nations

The main ideology that caused both World Wars

The area of WWI fought between Germany, France, and Belgium. After an initial invasion of France by Germany it resulted in a stalemate lasting the entire war at the River of Marne

American ship sunk by German U-boats that caused the U.S. to enter WWI on the Allies side

The radical wing of the Russian Social Democratic Party

The political party in Russia that became communist and ruled Russia under Lenin and later Stalin

A military maneuver made by Germany that called for a swift defeat of France then an all out defense against Russia. It ultimately failed

A Marxist Socialist who believed the people in a communist revolution need to be led by a political party

The man who used the Petrograd Soviet to overthrow Russia's provisional government and make Russia Communist under his rule

The man who proposed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in order to pull his country out of WWI

A list of demands that the Japanese sent to the Chinese government. If the demands were not met Japan would invade China

A document that showed that Japan was seeking to become an imperialist power in East Asia

A document, that if accepted by China, would make China an oppressed protectorate of Japan

The area in between opposing trenches in Trench Warfare. It was littered with mines and barbed wire fences. Anyone who tried to cross it was cut down easily by machine gun fire

The man whose death began WWI. He was the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary but was assassinated in Serbia