WW1 BEGINNINGS
Serbian nationalist who assassinated Franz Ferdinand, the archduke of Austria-Hungary- and unofficially kicked off WW1
Gavrilo Princip
Communication used by all the major world powers in an attempt to influence citizens to support the country's war effort including getting people to enlist in the military?
propaganda
The sole responsibility for the war was placed on which country’s shoulders- known as War Guilt?
Germany
Who founded the Ford Motor Company in 1903, pioneering the mass production of automobiles?
Henry Ford
October 24, 1929 is known as _____ _____- which was then the American stock market collapsed & plunged the world financial and trading systems into the Great Depression
Black Thursday
After the archduke was killed, Austria-Hungary’s government leaders decided the only way to solve this was an all-out _____ of Serbia
invasion
World War 1 quickly became a war of attrition, which meant the enemy needed to win by doing what?
gradually reducing the strength or wearing them down
Even though President Wilson created and promoted the idea of the _____, the United States never joined
League of Nations
The conservative advisors of the German president invited Hitler to become _____ in January 1933.
Chancellor
Efforts by European nations to slash spending and return to the prewar ____ standard stifled growth and compromised their ability to pay war debt
gold
On the western front- neither side was making progress and the war came to a standstill, or _____ where nobody was winning
stalemate
This German plan hoped to instill a fear of encirclement whereas the Germans would isolate & surround their enem
Schlieffen
After WW1, land was taken from Germany to create _____ & the German-French border was demilitarized to avoid a future invasion
Rhineland
Germany borrowed money from the U.S. to pay reparations to _____ & _____, who used those payments to repay their debts to the U.S.
Britain & France
What created widespread panic of the German currency in 1923, with the United States intervening to create a total collapse of the German economy?
Hyperinflation
Germany pledged that if Russia EVER sent troops & advanced on Austria-Hungary, they would support them. This promise is known as Germany’s “_____ _____.”
Blank Check
Name of the secret diplomatic communication issued from Germany in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between them and Mexico where they would recover Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico?
Zimmermann Telegram
Who led a group of Communists to take control of the Russian government in a bloodless coup in 1917?
Vladimir Lenin
What was the movement that discouraged the use of alcoholic beverages, and had been active and influential in the United States since at least the 1830s?
temperance
By 1929 the United States was solely responsible for what percentage of the world’s industrial production?
one-third (⅓)
Under this system, people could buy only small amounts of those items that were also needed for the war effort, eventually covering a wide range of goods, from butter to shoe leather.
rationing
Term given to describe how society & women had to function with a temporary reduction in the male population- while the war raged on?
Home Front
Out of the 32 nations that attended the Paris Peace Conference, which representatives (nations) were considered the Big Four?
United States (President Woodrow Wilson),
France (Premier George Clemenceau),
Italy (Prime Minister Vittorio Orlando),
Britain (Prime Minister David Lloyd George)
Another common feature of authoritarian regimes was their use of terror and violence as tools for remaking what?
social order
Beginning with central Europe, _____ _____ caused other lenders to call in their loans, spurring panic and more bank closures until eventually the stock market crashed on Wall Street.
bank failures