The Assassination
He was the Archduke of the Austro-Hungarian Empire whose assassination served as the "spark" for WWI.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
This term describes the promotion of the military and the belief in using it to solve a nation’s problems.
Militarism
The three countries of the "Triple Alliance."
Austria-Hungary, Germany and Italy
This is a system where a stronger nation rules over a weaker one or establishes colonies.
Imperialism
This is a strong feeling of loyalty to the country where one was born or raised, often involving a sense of superiority.
Nationalism
This Bosnian Serb nationalist and member of the "Black Hand" carried out the assassination in June 1914.
Gavrilo Princip
This is the term for a "race" where nations compete to develop more powerful weapons and larger armies than their neighbors.
arms race
These three countries made up the original "Triple Entente."
France, Russia, and the United Kingdom
In the late 1800s, European nations turned their focus away from the Americas and toward these two continents.
Asia and Africa
This term describes the process or right of a group of people to choose their own government.
self-determination
This was the specific city in Bosnia-Herzegovina where the Archduke and his wife were killed.
Sarajevo
This policy involves requiring people by law to serve in the military.
conscription
After the war began, the Triple Alliance (with the Ottoman Empire) became known by this new name.
The Central Powers
This term refers to adding a new territory directly to a nation’s existing territory.
Annex
This region of southeastern Europe was known as a "hotbed" of nationalist tension because many different ethnic groups lived there under the rule of empires.
Balkans
This was the political goal of the "Black Hand" organization.
erbian independence (or freeing the Slavs from the Austro-Hungarian Empire).
Beyond just fighting, name one way colonies helped European nations build stronger militaries.
Colonies provided cheap labor, resources, and strategic military bases/access (to maintain control or move troops).
This country was originally part of the Triple Alliance but left and later joined the Allied Powers because they felt their allies had taken the offensive.
Italy
An economic resource European nations sought from their colonies to achieve "Prosperity."
Cheap labor, raw materials/resources, or new markets (customers).
One of the "Multinational" empires that struggled with internal conflict because they ruled over many different ethnic groups.
Austro-Hungarian Empire or the Ottoman Empire
Explain the "domino effect" immediately following the assassination: Which country did Austria-Hungary declare war on first, and which ally moved to help that country?
Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia; Russia moved to help Serbia.
Explain how Germany’s military actions in August 1914 brought the United Kingdom into the war.
Germany invaded Belgium (a neutral country) to get to France, which triggered the United Kingdom’s defense agreement.
From a geographic standpoint, why would a nation want to create a "buffer zone" through an alliance?
A buffer zone prevents another nation from attacking directly or slows them down if they do attack, protecting the "Security" of the main country.
Explain the conflict between the UK and Russia in Central Asia: What colony was the UK trying to protect, and what was their geographic strategy?
The UK wanted to protect its colony in India; their strategy was to keep Russia from expanding into Central Asia to maintain a geographic "buffer."
Contrast the two "faces" of nationalism: Give one example of how it united people in the 1800s and one example of how it divided them.
United: It brought people of the same culture together to form one nation (like Germany or Italy).
Divided: It caused ethnic groups within empires (like the Slavs in Austria-Hungary) to fight for independence, breaking the empire apart.