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$100 US President who presented the Fourteen Points as a plan for a fair and lasting peace.

$100 Woodrow Wilson

$200 Russian monk who had a tremendous amount of influence over the czar’s wife, and was blamed for many of Russia’s troubles.

$200 Grigory Rasputin

$300 Russian communist who returned from exile in 1917 to lead the Communist Revolution.

$300 Vladimir Lenin

$400 Last monarch of Russia, who acted as the supreme head of Russian forces in World War I

$400 Czar Nicholas II

$500 Leader of the provisional government in Russia who made the mistake of keeping Russia involved in WWI.

$500 Alexander Kerensky

$100 Heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary who was assassinated in Sarajevo in 1914

$100 Archduke Franz (Francis) Ferdinand

$200 French Prime Minister who insisted on punishing Germany and ensuring French security in the Treaty of Versailles

$200 Georges Clemenceau

$300 British Prime Minister who thought the Treaty of Versailles was unfair, but agreed to it because his people wanted to punish the Germans.

$300 David Lloyd George

$400 Serbian nationalist who assassinated the heir to the throne of Austria- Hungary.

$400 Gavrilo Princip

$500 German general who was the leader of the entire German military by the end of the war.

$500 Erich Ludendorf

$100 Aggressive preparation for war.

$100 Militarism

$200 Money that a country or group that loses a war pays because of the damage, injury, deaths, etc., it has caused

$200 Reparations

$300 Complete mobilization of a nation’s people and resources to fight a war.

$300 Total War

$400 An order or commission granted by the League of Nations to a member nation for the establishment of a responsible government over a former German colony or other conquered territorycommission

$400 Mandate

$500 After the war began, the term used when referring to Germany, Austria- Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire

$500 Central Powers

$100 Temporary suspension of hostilities by agreement between the opponents

$100 Armistice

$200 Desire by a large group of people (such as people who share the same culture, history, language, etc.) to form a separate and independent nation of their own

$200 Nationalism

$300 Tactic of wearing down the opponent by repeated attacks and heavy losses.

$300 War of attrition

$400 The pre-war term used when referring to the loose alliance between Great Britain, France and Russia

$400 Triple Entente

$500 Russian secret police who began the Red Terror to eliminate all opponents of the new communist government.

$500 Cheka

$100 The area between France and Germany, characterized by trench warfare that kept both sides in virtually the same position for 4 years.

$100 Western Front

$200 The German strategy of using a small holding action against Russia while invading France, through Belgium.

$200 Schlieffen Plan

$300 Term of the Treaty of Versailles that said that Germany had to accept total responsibility for starting the war

$300 War Guilt Clause

$400 The only one of Wilson’s Fourteen Points that was included in the Treaty of Versailles.

$400 League of Nations

$500 The man responsible for organizing the Red Army in Russia during and immediately after the Revolution.

$500 Leon Trotsky