Terms
Compulsory enlistment for state service, typically into the armed forces.
What is Conscription?
Britain, France, Russia
Who were the Triple Entente?
German officer who assured the emperor that "not one american will land on the continent" in an attempt to restart unrestricted submarine warfare
Who was Admiral Holtzendorff?
A British passenger ship that was sunk by a German U-Boat on May 7, 1915. 128 Americans died. The sinking greatly turned American opinion against the Germans, helping the move towards entering the war.
What was the Lusitania?
A form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield.
What was Trench Warfare?
Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause.
What is Propoganda?
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy
Who were the Triple Alliance?
President of the United States (1913-1921) and the leading figure at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
Short-term loans that individual citizens made to the government that financed two-thirds of the war's cost.
What was a War Bond?
A failed British offensive in Ottoman empire
What was Gallipoli?
An economic system directed by government agencies
What is Planned Economics?
Heir to the throne of Austria Hungary; assassinated by Gavrilo Princip, a bosnian serb.; sparked WWI
Who was Archduke Francis Ferdinand?
Russian revolutionary intellectual and close adviser to Lenin. A leader of the Bolshevik Revolution (1917), he was later expelled from the Communist Party (1927) and banished (1929) for his opposition to the authoritarianism of Stalin
Who was Leon Trotsky?
Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.
What was the Treaty of Versailles?
A Russian council composed of representatives from the workers and soldiers.
What was Soviets?
Payment for damages after a war
What is Reparations?
Leader of Russia before the Bolshevik Revolution
Who was Czar Nicholas II?
Was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and the first President of Germany from 1919 until his death in office in 1925.
Who was Fredrich Ebert?
A war based on wearing the other side down by constant attacks and heavy losses
What was War of Attrition?
A group of revolutionary Russian Marxists who took control of Russia's government in November 1917
Who were the Bolsheviks?
A nation governed by another nation on behalf of the League of Nations
What are Mandates?
Leader of Germany - supported Austria - Hungary
Who was Emporer William II?
Founded the Communist Party in Russia and set up the world's first Communist Party dictatorship. He led the October Revolution of 1917, in which the Communists seized power in Russia.
Who was Lenin?
Germany's military plan at the outbreak of World War I, according to which German troops would rapidly defeat France and then move east to attack Russia.
What was the Schlieffen Plan?
A propaganda character designed to increase production of female workers in the factories. It became a rallying symbol for women to do their part.
Who was Rosie the Riveter?