The Road to War
This 1882 agreement between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy was designed to isolate France.
Tripple Alliance
This form of combat on the Western Front resulted in a brutal stalemate and enormous casualties for very little territorial gain.
Trench Warfare
This "mad monk" and court favorite of Tsarina Alexandra was assassinated in 1916 by nationalistic aristocrats.
Rasputin
To bolster popular support and control public opinion, every warring government used this form of slanted news and biased messaging.
Propaganda
President Woodrow Wilson’s 1918 peace proposal was known by this name, emphasizing national self-determination and a league of nations.
14 points
This 1907 agreement settled colonial disputes in Persia and Central Asia, forming the basis of the alliance between Britain, Russia, and France.
Anglo-Russian Agreement (or the Triple Entente)
This 1916 battle, one of the deadliest of the war, saw the British and French lose over 600,000 men for a gain of only seven miles.
Battle of the Somme
This March 1917 uprising in Petrograd led to the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II and the establishment of a provisional government.
February Revolution
As a result of their massive contributions to the war effort, women in Britain, Germany, and the U.S. were granted this right immediately after the war.
Suffrage
This international organization, established in 1919, was designed to protect member states from aggression and avert future wars.
League of Nations
He was the Serbian nationalist and member of the "Black Hand" who assassinated Archduke Francis Ferdinand in Sarajevo.
Gavrilio Princip
The sinking of this British passenger liner in 1915 by a German submarine killed 139 U.S. citizens and turned American public opinion against Germany.
Lusitania
This radical Marxist leader returned to Russia in April 1917 and eventually led the Bolsheviks to power.
Lenin
This 1916 uprising by Irish republican nationalists against British rule was crushed but fueled future anti-British sentiment.
Easter Rising
This specific provision in the Treaty of Versailles forced Germany to accept sole responsibility for the war and pay massive reparations.
War guilt clause
This German military strategy called for a lightning attack through neutral Belgium to quickly defeat France before turning to face Russia.
Schlieffen Plan
This 1917 British statement supported the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine.
Balfour Declaration
In the Russian Civil War, the Bolsheviks were known by this color, while their diverse opponents were known by this color.
Reds and Whites
This 1918-1919 global health crisis killed an estimated 20 million people, more than twice the number of soldiers killed in the war itself.
Spanish Flu
Under this system established at the Paris Peace Conference, France and Britain took control of former Ottoman territories in the Middle East.
Mandate System
In 1905, William II tested the Anglo-French Entente by declaring this North African territory an independent state and demanding equal trading rights.
Morocco (First Moroccan Crisis)
This term describes a war in which the government plans and controls economic and social life to supply the military with all necessary resources.
Total War
This March 1918 treaty ended Russian participation in World War I but forced Russia to cede one-third of its population to the Central Powers.
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Under this system the Bolsheviks nationalized banks and industries and seized grain from peasants to feed the cities.
War Communism
This nationalist leader, known as "Father of the Turks," successfully resisted the Allied dismemberment of Turkey and established a secular republic.
Mustafa Kemal? (Atatürk)