Life Without Napoleon
These were the two goals of the Congress of Vienna.
What is restore the monarchies of Europe (France) and maintain a balance of power?
A 19th-century movement that recognized a common ethnic background among the various peoples of eastern and east central Europe and sought to unite those peoples for the achievement of common cultural and political goals.
What is Pan-Slavism?
The battle marked a crucial early turning point in the war. German forces advanced rapidly through Belgium and northern France under the Schlieffen Plan and came within miles of Paris. This battle led directly to the creation of this style of warfare and a prolonged stalemate on the Western Front.
What is the First Battle of the Marne?
A naval tactic where submarines attack and sink any vessel, including civilian and neutral ships, without warning, disregarding traditional rules of war that require targeting only military ships with prior notice. Primarily used by Germany in World War I to starve the Allies.
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
Both of these nationalist movements were fueled by shared language, culture, and desires for independent nation-states, opposing foreign domination (Austria).
What is Prussia (German) and Italian?
This was a military pact, formed primarily to counter the growing power of Germany and its allies (the Triple Alliance). Its meaning was to create a two-front war threat for Germany.
What is the Franco-Russian Alliance?
The British launched a counteroffensive on July 1, 1916 to relieve pressure on the French at Verdun. This location’s offensive is famous for its catastrophic first day, during which the British Army suffered more than 57,000 casualties.
What is the Battle of the Somme?
This Royal Majesty British-registered ocean liner was torpedoed by an Imperial German Navy U-boat during the First World War on 7 May 1915.
What is the RMS Lusitania?
This secret 1916 deal between Britain and France, with Russian approval, carved up the Ottoman Empire's Arab lands into spheres of influence after World War I.
What is the Sykes-Picot Agreement?
Prussia unified Germany under its leadership by orchestrating three strategic wars (Dano-Prussian, Austro-Prussian, Franco-Prussian) led by Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, using military might, economic strength, and clever diplomacy to first exclude Austria, then unite the remaining German states through shared victory and nationalism, culminating in the proclamation of the German Empire in 1871 at this palace.
What is Versailles?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Its launch in 1906 made all existing battleships obsolete, triggering an intense naval arms race, particularly with Germany, as both nations scrambled to build bigger, more powerful fleets, significantly escalating pre-WWI tensions and solidifying Britain's naval dominance while fueling German ambition, making it a symbol of burgeoning naval power and rivalry before World War I.
The German plan at this battle was to “bleed France white” by attacking a symbolic and heavily fortified French position. For nearly ten months, both sides fought fiercely, with France determined to hold the city at all costs. France successfully defended this place, but at a staggering human cost—around 700,000 casualties on both sides. The battle became a symbol of French endurance and the brutality of trench warfare.
What is the Battle of Verdun?
WHAT DOCUMENT?
"We intend to begin on the first of February unrestricted submarine warfare. We shall endeavor in spite of this to keep the United States of America neutral. In the event of this not succeeding, we make Mexico a proposal or alliance on the following basis: make war together, make peace together, generous financial support and an understanding on our part that Mexico is to reconquer the lost territory in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona."
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
WHAT IS IT:
"The Allied and Associated Governments affirm and Germany accepts the responsibility of Germany and her Allies for causing all the loss and damage to which the Allied and Associated Governments and their nationals have been subjected as a consequence of the war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her allies."
What is the War Guilt Clause?
This decisive Russian victory led to the Treaty of San Stefano, which recognized the independence of Romania, Serbia, and Montenegro and created a large, autonomous Bulgaria under Russian protection. These terms were later revised by the Congress of Berlin (1878).
What is the Russo-Turkish War?
The Moroccan Crisis of 1905 (also known as the First Moroccan Crisis or Tangier Crisis) was a major diplomatic confrontation sparked by Germany's challenge to French influence in Morocco, particularly after France and Britain's agreement, known by this fancy phrase for an agreement.
What is the Entente Cordiale?
WHAT BATTLE?
"There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today." – Admiral David Beatty, witnessing the destruction of his battlecruisers, HMS Indefatigable and HMS Queen Mary
What is the Battle of Jutland?
WHO SAID IT?
"XIV. A general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike."
What is Woodrow Wilson?
WHAT DOCUMENT:
"His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country."
What is the Balfour Declaration?
WHO SAID IT:
"If I hadn't done it the Germans would have found another excuse."
What is Gavrilo Princip?
What is Jena and Auerstedt?
Also called Kaiserschlacht, this famous battle began March 21, 1918, with a massive artillery bombardment, and continued in various phases through July 18, 1918. It marked Germany's last major attempt to win the war, launching powerful attacks along the Western Front before the Allies' Hundred Days Offensive pushed them back.
What is the Spring Offensive?
WHAT THE OCCUPATION:
William Borah: "We [would] have forfeited and surrendered, once and for all, the great policy of 'no entangling alliances' upon which the strength of this Republic has been founded for 150 years."
Henry Cabot Lodge: "Are we ready to give to other nations the power to say who shall come into the United States and become citizens of the Republic? If we do this, we are prepared to part with the most precious of sovereign rights."
What is U.S. Senator?