Chapter 27 History Review

What was the Three Emperors' League

A conservative alliance which linked the monarchs of Austria-Hungry, Germany, and Russia against radical movements

What was the Petrograd Soviet

A mass meeting of two thousand to three thousand workers, soldiers and socialist intellectuals, modeled on the revolutionary soviets.

What was Army Order No. 1

A radical order of the Petrograd Soviet that stripped officers of their authority and placed power in the hands of elected committees of common soldiers

What was the Triple Entente

Alliance of Great Britain, France, and Russia in WWI

What was the League of Nations

An organization of nations formed after World War I to promote cooperation and peace.

What was the most fatal decision made by Tsar Nicholas II in the time before the Russian Revolution

He decided to travel to the front and take personal command of the Russian Army

What did Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War do

It helped the Bolsheviks who could appeal to patriotic nationalism against the whites

What was the Cheka

Secret police

who did Nicholas fail to work with

The Duma

What was Lenin's party known as

The Majority group or the Bolsheviks

What is War Communism

in World War I Russia, government control of banks and most industries, the seizing of grain from peasants, and the centralization of state administration under Communist control

Who led the provisional government that formed after the fall of Nicolas II

Alexander Kerensky

Who were the Bolsheviks

Also known as the Majority group they were Lenin;s camp of the Russian party of Marxian socialism

Who was Girgori Rasputin killed by

German Mercenaries

What did Lenin's contribution to Marxist theory include

Importance of violent revolution, possibility of revolution in a socially backward country, and necessity of a small and disciplinary leadership party

What did the Petrograd Soviet's Army Order No. 1 do

It led to the total collapse of discipline in the Russian Army

What was the Black Hand and what did it do

It was an ultranationalist Serbian society whose members assassinated Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife this started the Third Balkan War

What was the Lusitania

The British passenger liner sunk by a German submarine. It carried weapons and had Americans on the boat as well. This was a major reason USA joined the fight

What was the Treaty of Versailles and what did it do

Treaty by which Germany's army was limited to 100,000 men and Germany was declared responsible for the war and had therefore to pay reparations equal to all civilian damages caused by the war.

What was the Constituent Assembly

a freely elected assembly promised by the Bolsheviks, but permanently disbanded after one day under Lenins orders after the Bolsheviks won less than one fourth of the elected delegates.

What did the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk do

it ended the war between Russia and Germany