7th Grade History - Post WWI and the Roaring Twenties (33 ID’s)

Abolition of secret treaties

Freedom of the seas

Free Trade

Disarmament

Adjustment of colonial claims

Russia to be assured independent development

Restoration of Belgium to antebellum national status

Alsace-Lorraine returned to France from Germany

Italian borders redrawn on lines of nationality

Austro-Hungarian Empire dissolved

Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and other Balkan states to be granted integrity and have their territories de-occupied.

Sovereignty for the Turkish people of the Ottoman Empire as the Empire is dissolved.

Establishment of an independent Poland with access to the sea

General association of the nations – (League of Nations)

The Volga is the largest river in Europe and flows through central Russia.  It is widely viewed as the national river of Russia.

The Don is one of the major rivers of Russia. The Don and Volga Rivers are connected by a canal.

Prohibition in the United States was the period from 1920 to 1933, during which the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol were banned nationally as mandated in the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Westernizers vs. traditionalists: industrialism (which is where the rest of modern Europe was headed) vs. traditional farming of the land.

• A speakeasy is an establishment that illegally sells alcoholic beverages.  Such establishments came into prominence in the United States during the period known as Prohibition
• (1920–1933).

Suffrage is the civil right to vote, or the exercise of that right.

Communism is a sociopolitical movement that aims for a classless society structured upon communal ownership of the means of production and the end of wage labor and private property.

In U.S. law, an alien is "any person not a citizen or national of the United States." The U.S. Government's use of alien dates back to 1798, when it was used in the Alien and Sedition Acts.

Communists were called reds after the red flag of the International, which was the worldwide communist organization.

The March Revolution removed Tsar Nicholas II from power in Petrograd (present-day St. Petersburg).

Tsar (also spelled czar) is a title used to designate certain monarchs or supreme rulers. In Russia and Bulgaria the imperial connotations of the term were blurred with time and, by the 19th century, it had come to be viewed as an equivalent of King.

The Great Migration was the movement of 2 million African Americans out of the Southern United States to the Midwest, Northeast and West from 1910 to 1930. African Americans migrated to escape racism and seek employment opportunities in industrial cities.

Peasants and factory workers came to the winter palace asking for better working conditions and bread.  Czar Nicholas’s soldiers fired upon them. The color of the snow left behind gave this day its infamous name.

The October Revolution (also called the Bolshevik Revolution) overturned the interim provisional government and established the Soviet Union.

After October, the Bolsheviks realized that they could not maintain power in an election-based system without sharing power with other parties and compromising their principles. In response, the Russian Civil War broke out in the summer of that year and would last well into 1920.

Nicholas II ruled from 1894 until his abdication on 15 March 1917. His reign sawImperial Russia go from being one of the foremost great powers of the world to economic andmilitary collapse.

"Flapper" in the 1920s was a term applied to a "new breed" of young Western women who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair and listened to jazz.

• During the war Russia suffered great economic and military losses. This was the stepping-stone for revolutions that changed
• Russia into a Communist society.

The Bolsheviks ultimately became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.