Long-Term Causes
These two alliance systems were supposed to deter either side from offensive military action.
What are the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente?
Gavrilo Princip was a member of this terrorist organization, which was supported by many members of the Serbian government.
What is the Black Hand?
This exposed land between opposing trenches became a killing field in which attacking troops would be mown down by machine gun fire, artillery shells and poison gas.
What is No-Man's Land?
This German General defeated the Russian at the Battle of Tannenberg in 1914, was the commander of all German forces in 1918, and became President of Germany during the Weimar Republic.
Who is Paul von Hindenberg?
Italy's failure to secure this territory at the Paris Peace Conference paved the way for Benito Mussolini's rise to power.
What is Dalmatia?
This military plan was intended to avoid having to fight a war on two fronts.
What is the Schlieffen Plan?
Germany's decision to give this to Austria-Hungary in July 1914 was at the centre of later claims of German war guilt.
What is the blank cheque (or carte blanche)?
After the First Battle of the Marne in September 1914, Allied and German forces tried to use this tactic to get around each other's defensive positions - leading to the Race to the Sea.
What is outflanking?
This was the author of the Fourteen Points?
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This policy, which was included in the Fourteen Points, states that every nation should have the right to choose its own political future.
What is self-determination?
The Anglo-German Naval Race, which contributed to heightened tension between the UK and Germany, was sparked by the design and manufacture of this new ship.
What is HMS Dreadnought.
This is the name given to the period between the assassination of Archduke Franz-Ferdinand and the beginning of the war.
What are the July Days?
This strategy was aimed at starving the United Kingdom out of the war by sinking all ships entering its waters.
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
This British politician rose to prominence after being named Minister of Munitions in 1915, and became Prime Minister in 1916 - representing Britain at the Paris Peace Conference.
Who is David Lloyd-George?
What are women's suffrage/voting rights?
The Russian Empire and Serbia shared a common belief in this brand of nationalism, which also inspired the organization behind Gavrilo Princip's assassination of Archduke Franz-Ferdinand.
What is Pan-Slavism?
On 23 July 1914, Austria-Hungary gave Serbia this much time to respond to its ultimatum.
Revolutions in these months of 1917 - according to the old Russian calendar - led to the withdrawal of Russia from the war in early 1918.
What are February and October?
This French politician was known as the Lion of France, and took a particularly hard line against Germany during the Paris Peace Conference.
Who is Georges Clemenceau?
This string of new states was created to insulate Europe from revolutionary pressures in the Soviet Union after the war.
What was the cordon sanitaire?
This state was at the center of two international diplomatic crises in 1905 and 1911.
What is Morocco?
What is expansionism?
This message from Germany to Mexico, which offered Mexico support if it were to attack the United States, helped to bring the Americans into the War.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
Who is Erik Ludendorf?
The signing of this peace treaty in 1923 replaced the terms agreed to by the Treaty of Sevres in 1918 and established the outline of the modern Middle East.
What is the Treaty of Lausanne?