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World War IRevolution
Totalitarianism
Information• Who
The Triple AllianceFrance – Britain - Russia
The Triple EntenteGermany – Italy – Austria Hungary
MexicoAfricaMiddle EastIndiaChina
Information
• What• Nationalism• Imperialism• Democracy• Totalitarianism
• When – Early 1900’s
Information
• Where
Knowledge
• Triple Entente of Great Britain, France, and Russia
• Triple Alliance, consisting of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.
How/Why - The Great War Begins
Knowledge
•How/Why An assassination in the Balkans sparked the outbreak of World War I.
Knowledge
•How/Why - Strikes and violent actions by Socialist labor movements also threatened European governments.
Knowledge
•How - Trench warfare between France and Germany turned into a stalemate and casualties mounted throughout Europe.
Knowledge
•How/Why - The United States entered the war in 1917 in response to the German use of submarines against passenger ships.
Knowledge
• How/Why - As the war dragged on, propaganda was used to bolster public opinion.
Knowledge
• How/Why - Women entered the workforce in large numbers.
Knowledge
• The Russian Revolution• Russia was unprepared for World War I and
suffered massive casualties early in the war.
Knowledge
• How/Why• Nicholas stepped down
as czar, and a provisional government was formed.
1 : any of various economic and political theories
advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means
of production and distribution of goods
2 a : a system of society or group living in which there is
no private property b : a system or condition of society
in which the means of production are owned and
controlled by the state
Socialist
Knowledge
•How/Why • The Bolsheviks
committed to violent revolution, played a crucial role under the leadership of V.I. Lenin.
Knowledge•How/Why • In October 1917, the Bolsheviks overthrew the
provisional government.• The czar and his family were held captive and
then executed by members of a local soviet.
1 : a member of the extremist wing of the Russian Social Democratic party that seized power in Russia by the Revolution of November 1917
Knowledge
•How/Why • Civil war ensued between the Bolshevik
Communist regime and anti-Communists.
1 a : a theory advocating elimination of private property b : a system in which goods are owned in common and are available to all as needed
Knowledge
•How/Why • Despite aid from the Allied forces, the anti-
Communists were defeated by a well-disciplined Communist Red Army.
Knowledge• How/Why • End of the War• Allied forces
finally defeated Germany at the Second Battle of the Marne but would not make peace with the German emperor.
End of the War
• Wisdom• U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sought to pave the way
for a just and lasting peace by creating the League of Nations.
an organization for international cooperation established at the initiative of the victorious Allied Powers at the end of World War I.
http://www.un.org/Overview/unmember.html
Wisdom
• End of the War • The Treaty of Versailles imposed harsh penalties
on Germany.
Wisdom
• The war settlements redrew the map of Europe and imposed heavy penalties on Germany.
Wisdom
• Millions died during the war• Revolution in Russia• Totalitarian governments• Set the stage for World War II
Imperialism
• “The creation and maintenance of an unequal economic, cultural and territorial relationship, usually between states and often in the form of an empire based on domination and subordination."
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Democracy
• Democracy is a political government carried out either directly by the people (direct democracy) or by means of elected representatives of the people (representative democracy).
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Totalitarianism
• System of government and ideology in which all social, political, economic, intellectual, cultural, and spiritual activities are subordinated to the purposes of the rulers of a state.
Totalitarianism
• Those countries whose governments are usually characterized as totalitarian are Germany, under the National Socialism of Adolf Hitler; the USSR, particularly under Joseph Stalin; and the People's Republic of China, under the Communist rule of Mao Zedong. Other governments have also been called totalitarian, for example, those of Italy under Benito Mussolini, North Korea under Kim Il Sung, Syria under Hafez al-Assad, and Iraq under Saddam Hussein.
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