Imperialism
What did Great Britain try to do in Africa?
Form a colonia strip N-S (Egypt-South Africa)
Which countries belong to the Allies?
GB, France, Russia, USA, Italy, Japan...
Period from 1870-1914 of not open war, but growing tensions and great efforts to manufacturing weapons and the military structure in Europe.
Armed peace
British colony that was considered the "Jewel of the Crown"
India
Type of occupation consisting in a country that is generally controlled and defended by a more powerful country
Protectorate
Alsace and Lorraine
Intergovernmental organisation founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference
League of Nations
City in which the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand took place
Sarajevo
Name and year of the conference organised in order to established a system of colonisation in Africa
Conference of Berlin (1884-85)
According to the Treaty of Versaille, Germany had to make territorial concessions and pay war _________
reparations
Machine guns, flamethowers, toxic gases, mines, airplanes, submarines, hand grenades
New states formed after the IWW
Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia
The theory that human groups and races are subject to the same laws of natural selection as Charles Darwin perceived in plants and animals in nature
Social-darwinism
How many points did Woodrow Wilson’s peace plan include after World War I?
Fourteen Points
Name of the German plan for the invasion and defeat of France, which was used at the outbreak of the First World War.
Schlieffen Plan
Name and year of the treaty by which Russia withdraws from the war
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, 1917
Agreements by which China granted commercial advantages to an imperial power
Concessions
Name of the terrorist who killed the Archduke of Austria-Hungary
Gavrilo Princip
What were the main reasons why the United States entered the First World War in April 1917?
Germany’s unrestricted submarine warfare.
The interception of the Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany proposed an alliance with Mexico against the United States.
Economic interests, including trade and loans to the Allied countries.
This treaty was imposed upon Austria at the end of the war