Download Russian Revolution - Galena Park ISD Moodle

Realities Of War – U.S. Involvement
AIM: Describe the events that led to the U.S. entering WWI
The Russian Revolution
Describe Russia’s internal problems during WWI and
explain how they led to the Russian Revolution.
Describe what happened to the Czar and his family
The United States Enters the War
Economic Reasons
1) Insert Picture
2) Answer question:
Who did the U.S. trade with the most?
The United States enters the War
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
1) Insert Picture
2) Answer questions:
Who used it?
What disadvantage did they have that forced
them to use it?
The United States enters the War
The Zimmermann Telegram
1) Insert Picture
2) Answer questions:
Who wrote it?
What did it say?
How did the American public respond to it?
The United States enters the War
The Home Front
How did entry in the war affect American
Society?
•Shift from peacetime to wartime production.
•Regulating food production, coal and petroleum
distribution, and railway use.
•Government controlled which crops farmers grew,
which products industries produced and how
supplies was distributed.
Selective Service Act- May 1917
•Draft of young men for military service.
•War to end all Wars=wide acceptance for draft
•By Nov. 1918, 24 million men had registered
American Expeditionary Force (AEF)
•Volunteers and National Guardsmen
1) Insert Picture
Russian Revolution
(From Monarchy to Communism)
Peasant Poverty
Growing & Politicized Urban Workforce
Tsarist Autocracy and a Lack of Representation
Ineffective Government
Alienated Military
Russian Revolution
Russia's Internal Problems during WWI
1. Russia entered World War I in 1914, after promising support to Serbia against
Austria-Hungary.
2. Russia’s military unprepared for war: its soldiers were poorly equipped, its officers
barely competent.
3. During WWI the Tsar took command of the army, which associated him with future
defeats and losses.
4. By mid-1916, two years of war had decimated the Russian economy, triggered
downturns in agrarian production, problems in the transportation network, currency
inflation and food and fuel shortages in the cities.
Russian Revolution
1) Identify the two sides that were competing for power
during the Russian Revolution.
2) Insert picture: representing each side
Russian Revolution
1) Describe how Lenin came to
power in Russia.
Vladimir Lenin
Russian Revolution
• What is a Czar?
• Explain what happened to
Czar Nicholas and his
family?
End Part III
World War I War Ends
The Treaty of Versailles
http://teacherweb.com/CA/SanRamonValleyHighSchool/EchoHamilton/Treaty-of-Versailles-Reading.pdf
1) Punishment: How did the
Treaty punish Germany?
The Treaty of Versailles
1) What future conflict did the treaty have a role in causing?
Woodrow Wilson’s
Fourteen Point Plan
1)What was Wilson trying to achieve with
his plan.
2)What was his most important and
significant point in his fourteen point
plan? What was its lasting impact?
Woodrow Wilson - 28th
President of the United States
Effects Of WWI
New Realities for African Americans and Women
How did the end of WWI effect African Americans and women in America?
Effects Of WWI
Fear of Communism
1)
2)
Insert Picture
Answer questions:
What was the Red Scare?
How did it influence Americans and American Policy?
Effects Of WWI
New American Giant
How did America benefit financially after the war?
End Part IV