Unit 10 by Aaron Green https://padlet.com/aarongreen2246/lcx989mwwgv3 en-us 2017-03-06 11:01:45 UTC 2026-01-30 19:23:00 UTC hello@padlet.com What were the factors that produced WWI? aarongreen2246 https://padlet.com/aarongreen2246/lcx989mwwgv3/wish/157976206 Causes of World War I
• Alliances that divided Europe into
competing camps
• Nationalistic feelings
• Diplomatic failures
• Imperialism
• Competition over colonies
• Militarism]]> 2017-03-06 11:12:15 UTC https://padlet.com/aarongreen2246/lcx989mwwgv3/wish/157976206 What were the major events of the war? aarongreen2246 https://padlet.com/aarongreen2246/lcx989mwwgv3/wish/157976344 Major events
• Assassination of Austria’s Archduke
Ferdinand
• United States enters the war
• Russia leaves the war ]]> 2017-03-06 11:12:59 UTC https://padlet.com/aarongreen2246/lcx989mwwgv3/wish/157976344 Who were the major leaders? aarongreen2246 https://padlet.com/aarongreen2246/lcx989mwwgv3/wish/157976654 Major leaders
• Woodrow Wilson
• Kaiser Wilhelm II ]]> 2017-03-06 11:14:40 UTC https://padlet.com/aarongreen2246/lcx989mwwgv3/wish/157976654 What were the outcomes and global effects of WWI? aarongreen2246 https://padlet.com/aarongreen2246/lcx989mwwgv3/wish/157976846 Outcomes and global effect
• 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 ]]> 2017-03-06 11:15:31 UTC https://padlet.com/aarongreen2246/lcx989mwwgv3/wish/157976846 What were the terms of the Treaty of Versailles? aarongreen2246 https://padlet.com/aarongreen2246/lcx989mwwgv3/wish/157977024 Treaty of Versailles
• Forced Germany to accept responsibility for
war and loss of territory and to pay
reparations
• Limited the German military
• League of Nations ]]> 2017-03-06 11:16:30 UTC https://padlet.com/aarongreen2246/lcx989mwwgv3/wish/157977024 Why did Russia erupt in revolution while fighting in WWI? aarongreen2246 https://padlet.com/aarongreen2246/lcx989mwwgv3/wish/157977222 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 ]]> 2017-03-06 11:17:41 UTC https://padlet.com/aarongreen2246/lcx989mwwgv3/wish/157977222 How did communism rise in Russia? aarongreen2246 https://padlet.com/aarongreen2246/lcx989mwwgv3/wish/157977337 Rise of communism
• Bolshevik Revolution and civil war
• Vladimir Lenin’s New Economic
Policy
• Joseph Stalin, Lenin’s successor ]]> 2017-03-06 11:18:20 UTC https://padlet.com/aarongreen2246/lcx989mwwgv3/wish/157977337 What was the League of Nations and why did it fail? aarongreen2246 https://padlet.com/aarongreen2246/lcx989mwwgv3/wish/157978755 League of Nations
• International cooperative
organization
• Established to prevent future wars
• United States not a member
• Failure of League because it did not
have power to enforce its decisions ]]> 2017-03-06 11:26:24 UTC https://padlet.com/aarongreen2246/lcx989mwwgv3/wish/157978755 Why was the mandate system created? aarongreen2246 https://padlet.com/aarongreen2246/lcx989mwwgv3/wish/157978994 The mandate system
• During World War I, Great Britain
and France agreed to divide large
portions of the Ottoman Empire in
the Middle East between themselves.
• After the war, the “mandate system”
gave Great Britain and France
control over the lands that became
Iraq, Transjordan, and Palestine
(British controlled) and Syria and
Lebanon (French controlled).
• The division of the Ottoman Empire
through the mandate system planted
the seeds for future conflicts in the
Middle East. ]]> 2017-03-06 11:27:31 UTC https://padlet.com/aarongreen2246/lcx989mwwgv3/wish/157978994