Chapter 35 Big Picture Questions

1. What factors help explain the outbreak of World War I? What role did nationalism play in this process? How did a regional squabble turn into a global conflict?
2. What were the important turning points of World War I? Who were the important leaders who met at Paris to fashion the Treaty of Versailles? What were the problems of the Treaty that would plague the inter-war years?
3. What were the major consequences of World War I? In what ways did the events and results of the war usher in the 20th century?
4. What factors led to the Russian Revolution? What was Lenin’s main philosophy and how did it relate to Marx’s thought? How would Russia and the world be transformed by this event?
5. In what ways was World War I a global struggle? How did non-European areas get brought into the War? How were these areas changed by this conflict?