World War I
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29 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Hague Tribunal | a world court to settle disputes between nations to create peace |
| Pan-Slavism | believed all slavic people shared a common nationality |
| Central Powers | Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Ottoman Empire |
| Allies | Great Britain, France, Russia |
| pacifism | opposition to all war |
| militarism | glorification of war and military |
| entente | nonbinding agreement to follow common policies |
| Three peace efforts | *Olympics *Nobel prize created *Universal Peace Conference in the Neth. |
| Nationalist feelings | created tense relationship between Germany and France |
| Secret Alliances | Many of these were created out of fear of attack. Growth of rival allowances increased tension. |
| Francis Ferdinand | Archduke of Austria-Hungary. Murdered by the Black Hand. |
| Gavrilo Princip | Murderer of Ferdinand. |
| Schlieffen plan | plan to avoid a war with two fronts. |
| Francis Ferdinand was murdered... | ...because... *viewed as a foreign oppressor *visited on imp. day to Serbian culture |
| Austria Hungary sent ultimatum | To avoid war: Serbia had to end all anti-Austrian feelings, punish any Serbian official involved in the murder. |
| Western Front | The site of a deadly stalemate due to automatic weapons (remained unchanged for 4 years) |
| Modern weapons | added to destructiveness of war. Machine gun made it impossible to cross battlefield. |
| Colonies | served as a resource for soldiers, laborers, and supplies |
| Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | treaty between Russia and Germany that would end Russia's involvement in WWI in 1917 |
| Lusitania | British passenger boat sunk by a German submarine that claimed 1,000 lives. One of main reasons Amereica decided to join the war. |
| Fourteen points | the war aims outlined by President Wilson in 1918, which he believed would promote lasting peace; called for self-determination, freedom of the seas, free trade, end to secret agreements, reduction of arms and a league of nations |
| Governments | Raised taxes, borrowed money. Rationed food and gasoline. Set prices, forbid strikes. |
| Special Boards | censored the press. |
| Russian rev. | began with bread riots, mushroomed into rev. that brought down the monarchy. |
| Zimmermann Note | a secret document to Mexico that said Germany would help them regain lost territories in Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico if they joined the war on the Central Powers side |
| The Big Three | Woodrow Wilson David Lloyd George Georges Clemmenceaus |
| Difficult Issues | Italians:wanted their sevretly promised land (violated Woodrows principle of self-determination Many who were ruled by Austria Hungary, Russia, or the Ottoman empire wanted to be national states |
| Treaty of Versailles | *forced Germans to assume full blame for war *imposed huge reparations (Ex. paying the pensions of Allie soldiers and repair destruction. Cost over 30 billion) |
| Clauses | *limited military size *returned lands to France *stripped of overseas colonies |
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