1. World History II
Tuesday, April 19, 2011

2. Bellringer 4/18/11
Read page 522 “Imperialism, Nationalism, and Alliances”
What are the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente?
Which nations are included in each alliance?

3. Bellringer 4/19/11 What was the Treaty at Versailles?
Which country was punished at Versailles?
What did the Treaty at Versailles lead to?

4. News!!!

5. World War I
SOL 10

6. Background
World War I ( ) was caused by competition among industrial nations in Europe and a failure of diplomacy.
The war transformed European and American life, wrecked the economies of Europe, and planted the seeds for a second world war.

7. Causes of World War I
Alliances that divided Europe into competing camps
Nationalistic feelings
Diplomatic failures
Imperialism
Competition over colonies
Militarism

8. Major Events Assassination of Austria’s Archduke Franz Ferdinand
June 28, 1914
Sparked the beginning of World War I

9. Major Events U.S. enters the war Russia leaves the war 1917
October 1917

10. Major Leaders of World War I
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson
German Kaiser Wilhelm
VS.

11. Outcomes and Global Effects
Colonies’ participation in the war, which increased demands for independence
End of the Russian Imperial, Ottoman, German, and Austro-Hungarian empires
Enormous cost of the war in lives, property, and social disruption

12. Treaty of Versailles Officially ended World War I Forced Germany to:
accept responsibility for war
loss of territory
to pay reparations
Limited the German military
League of Nations

13. Russian Revolution
SOL 10

14. Russian Revolution
Tsarist Russia entered World War I as an absolute monarchy with sharp class divisions between the nobility and the peasants.
The grievances of workers and peasants were not resolved by the Tsar.
Inadequate administration in World War I led to revolution and an unsuccessful provisional government.
A second revolution by the Bolsheviks created the communist state that ultimately became the U.S.S.R.

15. Causes of 1917 Revolutions Defeat in war with Japan in 1905
Landless peasantry
Incompetence of Tsar Nicholas II
Military defeats and high casualties in World War I

16. Rise of Communism 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and civil war
Expelled the czar
Established a dictatorship of the proletariat (worker class)
Established the first communist country (USSR)

17. Leaders
Vladimir Lenin’s
Leader of the Bolsheviks
New Economic Policy

18. Leaders
Joseph Stalin
Lenin’s successor

19. Soviet Union

20. Timeline Place the following events on a timeline
Start of Bolshevik Revolution
Start of World War I
United States enters World War I
End of World War I