AP Chapter 15

2. Pre-WWI alliance of German, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.
4. Revolution in this country was marked by a complicated series of revolts aimed at reducing social inequality.
6. A line of fortifications and trenches, stretching from Switzerland to the North Sea.
8. This system demanded the allocation of former German colonies and Ottoman possessions to the victors of WWI.
10. A statement from Britain’s foreign secretary favoring the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine.
13. Chinese nationalist revolutionary (and leader of the Guomindang party) attempted to create a liberal democratic political movement.
14. After the war this epidemic infected almost everyone on earth, killing about 20 million world-wide.
15. In this 1894 war, China and Japan fought over Korea with Japan being victorious.
16. Pre-WWI alliance of Britain, France, and Russia.
18. This declining empire decided to join the Central Powers in order to take land from Russia.
19. Japan repressed this rebellion, a movement against foreigners in the late Qing era.
21. Trench warfare led to this... essentially a tie where neither side is able to dislodge the other from their positions.
22. President Wilson’s peace plan presented in January, 1918.

1. Leader of the Bolsheviks.
3. Wilson’s proposition of a world organization to safeguard peace; Congress would not let the US join for fear of being dragged into a future European conflict.
5. The treaty imposed on Germany at the end of WWI.
7. Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in this Bosnian city in 1914, starting a series of war declaration which led to the first world war.
9. This Chinese empress supported anti-foreign movements and resisted reforms of government and armed forces
11. This group overthrew Sultan Abdul Hamid II and hired a German general to modernize their armed forces.
12. Christian-inspired rural rebellion that threatened to topple the Qing Empire.
17. A radical Russian Marxist political party who seized power in 1917.
20. This US president tried to keep the US out of the WWI, but German actions such as the sinking of the Lusitania and the Zimmerman Note made it impossible.