Regents Prep Day 15

World War I and Russian Revolution

Reminders

1) 1) HW due Friday (Chap 6) (5% of grade)

2) Trackers due Thursday (Quiz grade8%)

3) 10 extra practice sections due (20% of grade)

4) Take home tests are now LATE (12% of grade)

5) Regents Prep TODAY!

6) Regents Next Wednesday

I) Causes of World War I

A) Mania term used to describe the causes of World War I. Each letter stands for something

Militarism (army competition) Alliances (Friendships amongst Europeans)Nationalism (pride and love of ones country)Imperialism (competition for colonies and resources)Assassination (murder of Archduke Ferdinand)

II) World War I Alliances

A) Triple Entente France / Britain / Russia

B) Triple Alliance Germany / Austria Hungry / Italy

Alliances will end up changing, and becoming:

C) Central Powers Germany / Austria Hungry / Ottoman Empire

D) Allies U.S. / Britain / France / Japan / Italy / Russia

III) World War I Facts

A) Powder Keg term to describe tension in Eastern Europe. One spark will cause an explosion

B) Trench Warfare Fighting in trenches. Led to a stalemate

C) New Military Technology Barbed wire, airplanes, tanks, submarines / U-boats, rapid fire machine gun, poison gas, radio, hand grenades

IV) Treaty of Versailles

A) Treaty of Versailles peace agreement that ended World War I. Inside the treaty:

1) German & Austrian king must step down from power

2) Reparations Germany had to pay Allies back for war damages (30 billion $$$$)

3) Germany has to accept all blame for causing the war

4) Germany /Austria / Ottoman Empire have to give up large parts of land

V) League of Nations

A) League of Nations Conference where nations come together to solve problems and disagreements through discussion.

B) Does not have a military force, and thus was very WEAK

VI) Problems in Russia

A) Russia is backwards

B) Czars ruled with absolute power

C) Corruption Government was dishonest

D) Serfs were uneducated

E) World War I led to food shortages, and many deaths of Russian peasants

F) Unable to obtain a warm-water port (Crimean War)

VII) Attempts of Reform in Russia

A) Alexander II emancipates (frees) the serfs & reforms Russia

B) Terrorists kills Alexander II

C) Alexander III Serfs could not handle freedom, & takes back all of his fathers reforms.

D) Czar Nicholas II - Instead of a better life, peasants found long work hours, low pay, unsafe working conditions, disease, and tenements.

E) Bloody Sunday Czar fired and kill unarmed protestors. Led to lost of faith in the czar afterwards

VIII Vladimir Lenin A) Lenin Led Russian Revolution (Bolshevik Revolution). Had peasants support and followed Karl Marxs Communist ideas

B) 1917 Workers rally against the government demanding Peace, Land, Bread

1) Peace End World War I 2) Land Give land to the free serfs3) Bread Feed people starving in Russia.4) Czar Nicholas is executed