Motives:
Ideology, Military, Economy or Religious?
Ideology, Military, Economy or Religious?
The desire to make money, to expand and control foreign trade, to create new markets for products, to acquire raw materials and cheap labor, to compete for investments and resources, and to export industrial technology and transportation methods.
What is economic?
A regional conflict between Serbia and Austria-Hungary turned into a global conflict.
What is alliances?
This radical, far-left, and revolutionary Marxist faction founded by Vladimir Lenin overthrew Russia's government, ushering in 72 years of communist rule.
What is Bolsheviks?
According to French and British wishes, this document which ended World War One subjected Germany to strict punitive measures, required the new German Government to surrender approximately 10 percent of its prewar territory in Europe and all of its overseas possessions.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
A German U-boat torpedoed this British-owned steamship, killing 1195 people including 128 Americans, on May 7, 1915.
What is the Lusitania?
Based on cultural values such as the belief that the white race was superior, other cultures were “primitive,” Europeans should “civilize” peoples in other parts of the world, great nations should have empires, and only the strongest nations will survive.
What is ideological?
Germany, France and Great Britain disagreeing on how possessions in Africa should be divided.
What is imperialism?
A separate peace treaty signed on March 3, 1918, between the new Bolshevik government of Russia and the Central Powers (German Empire, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire), that ended Russia's participation in World War I.
What is the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
These statements were included in this man's vision of the post- World War One world.
Adequate guarantees given and taken that national armaments will be reduced to the lowest point consistent with domestic safety.
A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, based upon a strict observance of the principle that in determining all such questions of sovereignty the interests of the populations concerned.
What is Woodrow Wilson?
This "front", a 400-plus mile stretch of land weaving through France and Belgium from the Swiss border to the North Sea, was the decisive front during the First World War.
What is Western Front?
The desire to spread Christianity, to protect European missionaries in other lands, to spread European values and moral beliefs, to educate peoples of other cultures, and to end the slave trade in Africa.
What is religious?
When Serbia refused to meet the demands of Austria-Hungary’s ultimatum, this largest Slavic nation came to the assistance of the smaller Balkan nation. This brought Germany, France, and Great Britain into the war by the end of 1914.
What is Russia?
System of economic production whereby business owners acquire the means of production and hire workers who get paid for their labor. System defined by private property rights, wealth accumulation and re-investment, free markets, and competition.
What is capitalism?
This worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, lasted from 1929 to 1939. It began after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors.
What is the Great Depression?
An agreement made by opposing sides in a war to stop fighting for a certain time; a truce.
What is armistice?
Every imperialist country was worried about its own national security: The competition among imperialist powers was vicious. One had to protect one's own country and its colonies. Every country wanted to gain an advantage over its rivals. A colony could serve as a fueling station for the Navy.
What is military?
This cause of World War One made nations greedy and unwilling to negotiate. This pride in one's country and wanting to be the best created chaos in the late 19th century. Groups in Austria-Hungary and Serbia wanted independence. France wanted Alsace Lorraine back from Germany who was lost in 1871 Franco-Prussian War. The use of this cause gave nations false hope and made them aggressive to win wars with other European nations.
What is nationalism?
A political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
What is communism?
Between 1919 and 1932, Germany paid close to 21 billion marks. The German people saw this term as a national humiliation; the German government worked to undermine the validity of the Treaty of Versailles and the requirement to pay, mainly during the rise of Hitler.
What is reparations?
The Zimmermann Telegram (or Zimmermann Note or Zimmerman Cable) was a secret diplomatic communication issued from this (country) Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between (country) and (country) if (country) entered World War I against Germany. (Country) intercepted this message and delivered it to (country).
What is Germany, Mexico and Germany, US, GB, US?
Take up the White Man’s burden—
Send forth the best ye breed—
Go send your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need
To wait in heavy harness
On fluttered folk and wild—
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half devil and half child
Take up the White Man’s burden
What is ideological?
This capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina is where Franz Ferdinand was assassinated, igniting the Balkan powder keg.
What is Sarajevo?
This defeat against this island nation 2.2% their size, showed signs that Russia's military and government were in need of an overhaul. This came to fruition during World War One.
What is Japan?
Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles, known as this, was a statement that Germany was responsible for beginning World War I. Added in order to get the French and Belgians to agree to reduce the sum of money that Germany would have to pay to compensate for war damage.
What is the war guilt clause?
The League of Nations was an international diplomatic group developed after World War I as a way to solve disputes between countries before they erupted into open warfare. Following World War Two, this organization was created and is still monitoring global peace today.
What is the U.N.?