World War 1
A union formed between countries for shared benefit.
What is an Alliance?
These new industrial weapons contributed to making World War I so deadly
(Tanks, long range artillery, submarines, poison gas, war planes, machine guns, grenades)
political ideology promoting loyalty and pride in one's cultural group, sometimes accompanied by feelings of superiority over other groups.
What is Nationalism?
One of the treaties that ended the First World War; it put harsh rules on Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
A foreign policy in which a powerful nation controls and exploits one or more colonies and, during the late 19th century and early 20th century, contributed to European rivalry.
What is Imperialism?
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire formed this alliance group.
Who were the Triple Alliance?
France, Great Britain, Russia formed this alliance group.
Who were the Triple Entente?
This country was an ally of Germany and Austria-Hungary prior to the war, but ended up fighting against them when war broke out.
What is Italy?
These states were the members of the Triple Entente and became one of the two sides in the war.
Britain, France, Russia
A separate peace treaty signed on 3 March 1918 between Soviet Russia and the Central Powers by which Russia withdrew from WW1.
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in 1918.
Which of the underlying causes of World War One was linked to Austria-Hungary declaring war on Russia because Germany was already at war with Russia?
Alliances
The area of land in between opposing trenches
No man´s land
A British cruise-liner with 128 Americans on it- torpedoed by a German submarine.
What is the Lusitania?
This long and narrow ditches dug into the ground where soldiers lived.
Trenches
Name 2 consequences of Russian Revolution in 1917 for the world.
Change from Imperialism to nation-state.
Communist nationShift in WW1.
Lost of territory in Europe
To help pay for the war, the US government encouraged people to buy war bonds by marketing them as these types of bonds.
What are "liberty bonds"?
payments to cover damages (in war)
What are reparations?
A note from Germany to Mexico urging Mexico to attack the US
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
Information produced by governments, presented in such a way as to inspire and spread certain beliefs or opinions
What is propaganda?
The two main reasons the US entered WWI.
What are the sinking of the Lusitania and the Zimmerman Telegram?
An agreement to cease hostilities and stop fighting.
What is an armistice?
a group of countries trying to protect the independence of all countries- small or large. Organization formed after WWI
What is the League of Nations?
a conflict in which states pour all of their political, economic and social resources into the war effort
What is total war?
Causes of Russian revolution
The tsar actions such as; the war with Japan, the lifestyle of Russian monarchy, the Bloody sunday, economic crisis, the lost of Russian lives in the western front.
the right of a group to decide its own form of government
What is Self determination?