UNIT 10 – WORLD WAR I / RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

READING SELECTIONS: Know the author, time period, and main content for each of the following readings. How does it (or not) reflect the time period?

  • Ellis and Esler. World History: The Modern Era. Chapter 10 (Pages 348-353)
  • Ellis and Esler. World History: The Modern Era. Chapter 14 (Pages 453-485)
  • Ellis and Esler. World History: The Modern Era. Chapter 16 (Pages 542-549)
  • “The Lights Go Out” (Hand Out)
  • Wilfred Owen, “Dulce et Decorum Est: Disillusionment.” P. 148-149. Sherman.
  • Ch 26 Woodrow Wilson, “The Fourteen Points.” P. 151-152. Sherman
  • The Treaty of Versailles (Hand Out)
  • “Russian Revolution Opposing Viewpoints” x 3. (Hand Out.)
  • “The First Duma” (Hand Out)
  • Ch 26 V.I. Lenin, “Speech to the Petrograd Soviet—November 8, 1917: The Bolsheviks....” P. 151 Sherman
  • Stephen J. Lee, “Dictatorship in Russia: Stalin’s Purges.” p. 188-189. Sherman.
  • Visual: John Singer Sargent, “Gassed: The Horrors of Modern War.” P. 912-913 Kagan

TERMS:

Chapter 14:1-4

Triple Entente

Triple Alliance

Alsace and Lorraine

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Black Hand

Bosnia-Herzegovina

Sarajevo

Gavrilo Princip

Serbia

Schlieffen Plan

Battle of the Marne (1914)

Dardanelles

U-boat

T.E. Lawrence

War Socialism

“Peace without Victory”

Arthur Zimmermann

Woodrow Wilson

Lusitania

Fourteen Points

Treaty of Versailles

League of Nations

Chapter 10

Alexander II

Crimean War

Emancipation

Zemstvos

Alexander III

Pogroms

Nicholas II

Bloody Sunday

Revolution of 1905

October Manifesto

Peter Stolypin

Duma

Chapters 14.5&16.4

Gregory Rasputin

Provisional Government

Soviets

Proletariat

V.I. Lenin

Bolsheviks

Mensheviks

Pravda

Red Guard

Aleksandr Kerensky

October Revolution

“Peace, Land, Bread”

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Cheka

Commissars

NEP

Joseph Stalin

Kulaks

Gulag

Five Year Plan

Great Purges

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:

  1. What factors led to World War I? Which is the most significant?
  2. How was the war fought? Describe the physical and psychological toll the war had on soldiers of WWI.
  3. What factors led to the collapse of the tsarist government in 1917? Which was the most important, driving force behind the collapse of the tsarist government? Why was the Provisional Government also doomed to failure?
  4. How did Lenin’s view of socialism differ from Marx?
  5. Why did the Bolshevik Revolution pose a challenge to the rest of Europe? Could the Russian Revolution have happened without Lenin?
  6. Why did Stalin decide that Russia had to industrialize rapidly? How did he accomplish this task? Why did this require the collectivization of agriculture? Evaluate the results?