World War I
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 World War I | aka "The Great War" lasted from 1914-1918 |
| Militarism | *a cause of WWI- a nation's policy to maintain a strong armed forces in preparation for war |
| Austria-Hungary. France, Germany, Britain, & Russia | spent large amounts of money on new weapons and battleships |
| The Alliance System | *a cause of WWI- a guarenteed help from the countries they were allied with if a situation occured |
| Triple Entente | Great Britain, France, Russia |
| Triple Alliance | Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy |
| Imperialism | *cause of WWI- this competition led to friction between rival countries |
| Nationalism | the belief in extreme loyalty to a person's nation |
| June 28, 1914 | Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to Austrian throne, and wife Sophiem were assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia |
| Gavrilo Princip | assassin- Serbian nationalist- member of the Black Hand |
| Black Hand | the goal of this group was to unite all South Slavic people into a new slavic nation |
| Jul 28, 1914 | Austria declared war on Serbia |
| August 1,1914 | Germany declared war on Russia |
| August 3, 1914 | Germany declared war on France |
| August 4, 1914 | Great Britain declared war on Germany |
| August 6, 1914 | Austria declared war on Russia |
| Schlieffen Plan | developed in 1905- designed to prevent Germany from needing to conduct a two-front war on the east and west |
| Battle of Marnes | -the Schlieffen Plan failed: Germany was defeated through the efforts of the Belgians, French, and British |
| Total War | soldiers & civilians--all were involved in the war effort |
| No Man's Land | land between two trench systems |
| Trench Conditions | *unsanitary *constant fear of death *trench foot- required amputation |
| New Weapons | tank, German u-boat, machine guns, mustard gas, airplanes, zeppelins, radio systems |
| Russo-Japanese War | ended in a humiliating defeat for Russia, having been defeated by a non-white nation |
| Bloody Sunday | 1905- a group of reformers marched on the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, hundreds of protestors killed by Russian Army |
| Tsar Nicholaus II | Ruled Russia during WWI- extremely unpopular in Russia- didn't listen to advice and entered WWI |
| Rasputin | advised Tsar Nicholaus II not to enter WWI |
| Duma | after Russian Revolution- this privisional government was proclaimed |
| Vladanur Lenin | led the Bolsheviks |
| Bolsheviks | a pro-communist revolutionary group- led by Vladimir Lenin: seized control of Russian gov. in 1917 |
| Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | 1918- the sacrifice of all of Russia's western territories: arranged by Lenin |
| Romanov | Russian Royal Family: all killed in order to prevent return to throne |
| The Whites | the officers of the old army |
| The Reds | the Bolsheviks |
| 1st Communist State | Soviet Union- formed when the Reds won |
| Zimmerman Note | a secret meesage from German foreign minister to his ambassador in Mexico- promised to return land lost during Meixan-American War to Mexico-sparked US involvement |
| Treaty of Versailles | 1919- ended WWI |
| War Guilt Cause | Germany forced to accept full responsablity for WWI |
| WWI ended: | Austrian-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires |
| New Independant Nations Created from WWI: | Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia |
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