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Honors World History -- Chapter 14
World War I & the Russian Revolution Study Guide
Test Date: Friday, January 29
1. What were the main causes for WWI? What was the spark that triggered the
start of the war?
2. How was WWI different from other wars?
3. What were the two sides and what were their goals? Who were the leaders
for the major countries?
4. Describe some of the new weapons and tactics of the war. What were their
effects?
5. Discuss some of the major battles of the war.
6. How did warring nations produce enough material for war by 1914?
7. What is propaganda and how was it used in WWI?
8. What events led to the entry of the U.S. into WWI?
9. How did WWI end? What were the costs of the war?
10. What were the effects of the war?
11. How did the Treaty of Versailles lay the foundation for another international
conflict? How did the map of Europe change after the war?
12. Discuss Russia’s withdrawal from the war. What events led to the downfall
of the Russian monarchy?
13. How did the government and economy of Lenin’s Russia differ from “pure”
communism?
Vocabulary
Entente
Mobilize
Alfred von Schlieffen
Stalemate
Trench warfare
Zeppelins
Unterseeboat
Armenian Genocide
Blockade
Dardanelles
T.E. Lawrence
conscription
Lusitania
Zimmermann Note
Fourteen Points
Self-determination
Reparations
Treaty of Versailles
War Guilt Clause
mandates
Romanovs
Rasputin
Bolshevik Revolution
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Readings
1/4 Chapter 14 – 1
1/6 Chapter 14 – 2
1/6 Chapter 14 – 3
1/26 Chapter 14 – 4
1/27 Chapter 14 – 5