What is who got assassinated on June 28, 1914 to spark WWI.
100
stalemate
What is a deadlock in which neither side is able to defeat the other - happened after Battle of the Marne in 1914 pushed back German offensive
100
Total War
What is the channeling of a nation's entire resources into a war effort.
100
pandemic
What is spread of a disease across an entire country, continent, or the whole world (1918-influenza pandemic - killed 20 million world wide)
200
PAN-SLAVISM
What is the idea that all Slavic peoples shared a common nationality (promoted by Russia - a powerful form of nationalism)
200
Ultimatum (What were they?)
What is final set of demands; Serbia must end all agitation; punish any Serbian official involved; ALLOW AUSTRIA TO JOIN THE INVESTIGATION
200
Battle of Verdun
What is 11 month struggle to end stalemate cost more than 1/2 million casualties
200
Conscription and Propaganda
What is Conscription = "the draft" - all young men be ready for military or other service; Propaganda = the spreading of ideas to promote a cause or to damage an opposing cause.
200
Reparations and Political Turmoil
What is Reparations: payments for war damages; Political Turmoil: gov'ts of Russia, Germany, A-H, Ottoman Empire collapsed; colonies wanted independence
300
Militarism
The glorification of the military - grew partly out of Social Darwinism - Mother countries justified their military build up as protecting their colonies
300
"blank check." (can you name two?)
What is what German Kaiser promised Francis Joseph of Austria-Hungary after the assassination of the Arch Duke.
France gave Russia a 'blank check' to back Serbia due to France's desire to get back at Germany for it's loss in the Franco-Prussian War
300
poison gas, armored tank, zeppelins
What are new technologies used in WWI; poison gas by Germans first, then allies; armored tank by British; Zeppelins by Germans
300
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
What is treaty signed by VI Lenin of Russia with Germany - after Russia had gone through a civil war; with Russia out - Germany could concentrate on Western Front
300
The Big Three & Italy
Who are Woodrow Wilson - America; David Lloyd George - British Prime Minister; Georges Clemenceau - French leader; Italy- Vittorio Orlando
400
Alsace and Lorraine
What is French territories taken by Prussia after a French loss in the 1870 Franco-Prussian War that France was desperate to get back.
400
The Schlieffen Plan
What is the German war plan to avoid a two-front war; Germans thought Russians would be slow to mobilize so Germany would have to defeat France quickly by going through neutral Belgium - and then fight Russia.
400
U-boats and convoys
What are German submarines that sunk merchant ships carrying supplies to Allied side; convoys were groups of merchant ships protected by allied warships.
400
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare/ Zimmerman Note
What is (reasons U.S. got involved in war) German policy of attacking merchant and passenger ships carrying American citizens - and supplies to Allies; British intercepted note from Germans to their ambassador in Mexico stated if Mexico helped Germany fight U.S. - Mexico would get back its lost territory in U.S. (NM, Texas, Arizona)
400
Treaty of Versailles
What is Peace Treaty with Germany - Germany must take total blame - pay $30 billion in reparations - limited sized of Germany military - returned Alsace-Lorraine to France - stripped Germany of overseas colonies
500
Triple Alliance, Central Powers, Allies
Triple Alliance = 1882 alliance between Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary; Central Powers = 1914 alliance between Germany & Austria-Hungary; Allies = alliance between France, Great Britain & Russia
500
"Peace Bertha"
Who is Bertha von Suttner - wrote best selling antiwar novel - knew that the war was coming.
500
Ottoman Empire's role in war and T.E. Lawrence
What is joined Central Powers - kept Allies from taking Dardanelles strait at the Battle of Gallipoli/ British colonel "Lawrence of Arabia" - Supported Arab revolt against Turks.
500
Wilson's Fourteen Points
What are: freedom of the seas, free trade, large-scale reductions of arms, and an end of secret treaties, self-determination for Eastern European countries; LEAGUE OF NATIONS
500
Two dissatisfied groups after WWII
Self-Determination in E. Europe - went ok at first - but became center of conflict; European colonies did NOT get freedom - instead became MANDATES (territories administered by western powered); Italy did not get lands promised; Russia excluded from peace talks didn't like Poland and other Baltic states set up in 'their' land; WILSON - U.S. Senate did not sign treaty - no U.S. in League of Nations