Imperialism
What did Great Britain try to do in Africa?
Form a colonia strip N-S (Egypt-South Africa)
Which countries belong to the Triple Entente/Allies?
GB, France, Russia (later USA, Italy, Japan)
Period from 1870-1914 of not open war, but growing tensions and great efforts to manufacturing weapons and the military structure in Europe.
Armed peace
British colony that was considered the "Jewel of the Crown"
India
Type of occupation consisting in a country that is generally controlled and defended by a more powerful country
Protectorate
Alsace and Lorraine
Intergovernmental organisation founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference
League of Nations
City in which the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand took place
Sarajevo
Name and year of the conference organised in order to established a system of colonisation in Africa
Conference of Berlin (1884-85)
According to the Treaty of Versaille, Germany had to make territorial concessions and pay war _________
reparations
Machine guns, flamethowers, toxic gases, mines, airplanes, submarines, hand grenades
New states formed after the IWW
Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia
The theory that human groups and races are subject to the same laws of natural selection as Charles Darwin perceived in plants and animals in nature
Social-darwinism
Woodrow Wilson´s plan for peace was called
Fourteen Points Plan
Name of the German plan for the invasion and defeat of France, which was used at the outbreak of the First World War.
Plan Schlieffen
Name and year of the treaty by which Russia withdraws from the war
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, 1917
Agreements by which China granted commercial advantages to an imperial power
Concessions
Name of the terrorist who killed the Archduke of Austria-Hungary
Gavrilo Princip
Lloyd George
This treaty was imposed upon Austria at the end of the war