What are these, and why are these things significant?

1.nationalism
2.militarism
3.colonialism
4.the Balance of Power
5.Triple Alliance
6.Triple Entente
7.the Balkans:  the Powder Keg of Europe (Bosnia, Serbia, et al)
8.pan-Slavism
9.the Black Hand and Gavrilo Princip
10.Franz Ferdinand
11.the Allies and the Central Powers
12.weapons of World War I
13.the Battles of Verdun, the Somme, Jutland, Gallipoli, and Tannenberg
14.the Dardanelles
15.ANZAC
16.conscription
17.Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front
18.Woodrow Wilson
19.the Lusitania
20.the Zimmerman Telegram
21.Alvin York
22.the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
23.the Treaty of Versailles
24.Alsace-Lorraine
25.the Polish Corridor
26.the League of Nations
27.the Spanish Flu (a strain of influenza)
28.colonial mandates
29.the Armenians
30.T. E. Lawrence
31.pan-Arabism
32.Zionism
33.the Balfour Declaration
34.the Russian Royal Family
35.Rasputin
36.the Russo-Japanese War
37.the Revolution of 1905
38.the battleship Potemkin
39.soviets
40.Bloody Sunday
41.the Duma
42.Russia’s experience during World War I
43.the February (or March) Revolution of 1917
44.the October (or November) Revolution of 1917
45.the Provisional Government and Kerensky
46.Mensheviks and Bolsheviks
47.Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Stalin, and Nikolai Bukharin
48.The Reds and the Whites
49.the Greens and other nationalism movements during the Russian Revolution
50.changes in Russia and the USSR after the Communist Revolution
51.the Comintern
52.War Communism
53.totalitarianism
54.the Cheka, NKVD, and KGB
55.gulags
56.the New Economic Policy
57.kulaks
58.Five Year Plans
59.cult of personality
60.collective farms
61.show trials
62.the Great Purge
63.socialist realism (in art and literature)
64.Russification
65.Stakhanovites
66.George Orwell’s Animal Farm


*Be prepared to identify major countries of the early 20th Century world on a map.



*Be prepared to discuss the major causes of World War I.

*Be prepared to discuss the weapons and tactics of World War I and their effects.

*Be prepared to discuss why World War I ended.

*Be prepared to discuss the effects of World War I on Europe.

*Be prepared to discuss the Communist Revolution in Russia.