The Alliance System
Formed in 1882, this alliance originally brought together Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy.
What is the Triple Alliance?
This assassination on 28 June 1914 is identified in the course material as the immediate cause of the First World War.
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Joseph Maria of Austria?
Under this provision of the treaty, Germany was held responsible for the First World War.
What is the War Guilt Clause?
The League of Nations, as mandated by the Treaty of Versailles, was established in this year.
What is 1920?
This principle called for the removal of economic barriers and equal trading opportunities among nations.
What is Free Trade?
Italy abandoned the Triple Alliance in 1915 and joined the Allies after being promised these by the opposing powers.
What are Austrian territories inhabited by Italians?
Germany's invasion of this country brought Britain into the war because Britain had guaranteed its neutrality.
Where is Belgium?
This territory was returned to France from Germany under the Treaty of Versailles.
Where is Alsace-Lorraine?
Preventing aggression through this principle was the League of Nations' central security objective.
What is collective security?
Wilson's proposals called for the creation of an independent state for this European nation, with free and secure access to the sea.
Where is Poland?
These three agreements formed the diplomatic basis of the Triple Entente: the Franco-Russian Alliance, the Entente Cordiale and this 1907 agreement.
What is the Anglo-Russian Convention?
Put these developments in the correct order: United States enters the war, Russian Revolution, Italy joins the Allies, Romania joins the Allies.
What is Italy joins the Allies → Russian Revolution → Romania joins the Allies → United States enters the war
The harsh settlement imposed on Germany produced resentment that the course material identifies as contributing to the rise of this ideology and the outbreak of the next world war.
What is Nazism?
Despite being proposed by its own president, this country never joined the League of Nations.
What is the United States?
Wilson proposed that colonial disputes should be settled by considering not only the colonial powers but also the interests of the people living in the territories concerned.
What is the Fair Settlement of Colonial Claims?
After Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, this power mobilized in Serbia's support, prompting Germany to declare war on it.
What is Russia?
This wartime measure by Britain placed severe economic pressure on Germany and was one of the major factors behind the Allied victory.
What is the British naval blockade of Germany?
The postwar settlement distributed Germany’s former colonies under this system, while also imposing military restrictions and reparations on Germany itself.
What are mandates?
During the 1930s, the League failed to prevent aggression in these two cases, exposing the weakness of its collective-security system.
Where are Manchuria and Ethiopia?
This proposal called for freedom of navigation in international waters during peace and war, except where international action restricted it.
What is Freedom of the Seas?
Two states joined the Central Powers after the original Triple Alliance failed to function as a wartime bloc: one entered in 1914 and the other in 1915. Name both.
Where are the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria?
The First World War caused the collapse of these four empires, radically transforming the political map of Europe and the Middle East.
Where are the German Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Ottoman Empire, and Russian Empires?
The collapse of the empires after the First World War led to the emergence of these seven new nation-states in Eastern Europe. Name all seven.
Where are Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania?
These three major powers later withdrew from the League of Nations, weakening its ability to function as an effective system of collective security. Name all three.
Where are Germany, Japan, and Italy?
This point called for the peoples of Austria-Hungary to receive the fullest opportunity for autonomous development.
What is the Tenth Point?