TERMS, PEOPLE, AND EVENTS

Sarajevo Franz Ferdinand Princip

Caporetto Schlieffen Plan Plan XVII

Young Bosnian Society Central Powers Allies

First Battle of Marne Tannenberg Erich Ludendorff

Brusilov Somme Verdun

Paul von Hindenburg Masurian Lakes Lemberg

Joseph Joffre Henri Petain Robert Nivelle

Passchendaele offensive Gallipoli Jutland

U-boats Easter Rebellion V. I. Lenin

Arthur Balfour Balfour Declaration Russian Civil War

unrestricted submarine warfare Woodrow Wilson “Black Jack” Pershing

Zimmermann telegram Ludendorff offensive Ferdinand Foch

Georges Clemenceau David Lloyd George Council of Four

"Fourteen Points" League of Nations Reds and Whites

Treaty of Versailles War Guilt Clause Nicholas II

Bloody Sunday soviets Rasputin

Georgi Lvov Provisional Government Alexandr Kerenski

Mensheviks Bolsheviks Leon Trotsky

April Theses Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Lusitania

Aleksei Brusilov Douglas Haig Caporetto

Triple Entente Triple Alliance July Days

Erich von Falkenhayn Social Democrats

KEY GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS

Dalmatia Gallipoli Peninsula Serbia

Sarajevo Bosnia South Tyrol

Lithuania Byelorussia New Mexico

Latvia Arizona Texas

Brussels Ukraine Georgia

Somme River Flanders Czechoslovakia

Marne River Hungary Marne River

Ypres Estonia Yugoslavia

QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER

1. Who and/or what were responsible for the outbreak of World War I?

2. On the eve of war, British foreign minister Sir Edward Grey exclaimed, "The lights are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime." Was he right? Did global conflict extinguish the "lights" of European society?

3. Was the war fought the same way on the eastern and the western fronts? On which front did the pattern of warfare come closest to the prior expectations of European military strategists? Why?

4. In what ways did World War I approach the idea of “total war”? Why was it bigger, more destructive, and more encompassing than previous wars? What social groups participated in new ways in the war effort?

5. What did the Treaty of Versailles seek to do? What was the significance of its “war guilt clause”?

6. What factors precipitated the Russian Revolution(s)? Why did the Czar fall, and why were the Bolsheviks able to overthrow the Provisional Government that succeeded him so easily?