definitions from my notes
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| 5304650 | Dreadnought | new class of ship created by the British due to the Anglo-German Naval Race. made many British ships obsolete. stayed in port during wwi. | 0 | |
| 5304651 | Dreikaiserbund | germany, austria-hungary, and russia. three emperors' league. | 1 | |
| 5304652 | Reinsurance Treaty | created by Bismarck between Germany and Russia because Wilhelm II opposed the dreikaiserbund. | 2 | |
| 5304653 | industrialization | made it so that people could kill easier | 3 | |
| 5304654 | democratization | made it so that people wanted to kill people more | 4 | |
| 5304655 | Triple Entente | alliance between great britain, russia, and france before the war | 5 | |
| 5304656 | Triple Alliance | alliance between germany , austria-hungary, and italy before the war | 6 | |
| 5304657 | Greater Serbia | term for the state that Serb nationalists wanted to establish when they were all united | 7 | |
| 5304658 | mobilize | to move near a border and prepare troops but not actually declare war; what Russia did | 8 | |
| 5304659 | Franz Ferdinand | assassinated due to a dumb driver | 9 | |
| 5304660 | Sophie | Franz's commoner wife who he wasnt allowed to be seen in public with unless he was in his army guise | 10 | |
| 5304661 | Plan XVII | put bulk of army on German border and fight a lot. French plan of attack | 11 | |
| 5304662 | Schlieffen Plan | named after chief of German general staff. attack French first (PARIS), then turn around & put bulk of soldiers towards Russia because they will be slow to prepare. want to go through neutral Belgium, which breaks the agreement, but is easy because of low defense. | 12 | |
| 5304663 | von Molke | takes over von Schlieffen's position. not as ballsy. took off some of the Belgian army and put it on the French-German border. took off more and put it on Eastern front. weakened it a lot. also changed the route to Paris a little. | 13 | |
| 5304664 | franc-tireurs | people in Belgium who sniped to pick off Germans. freeshooters. example of BELGIAN RESISTANCE that slowed up the Germans. | 14 | |
| 5304665 | Louvain | city in French part of Belgium. bombarded with Big Bertha. was flattened and destroyed. Added to the reputation/mentality of Germans as destroyers. demoralizing to Belgians. | 15 | |
| 5304666 | trenches | the soldiers lived there. how the war was fought. usually between 10-14 ft. deep. hundreds of miles of them were dug. | 16 | |
| 5304667 | stalemate | WWI was a war of ____. not a lot of movement. | 17 | |
| 5304668 | front line | the soldiers who were up at the front! stayed there for like 3 weeks and really exhausted them. | 18 | |
| 5304669 | dugouts | cave places where soldiers hid during artillery barrages. dug into the trenches | 19 | |
| 5304670 | pigtails | curly-cue things with pointy ends to stick through the ground. string barbed wire between them. | 20 | |
| 5304671 | machine gun | made it so that 4-6 men could kill hundreds. | 21 | |
| 5304672 | Otto Dix | German artist turned machine gunner. took Nietzsche and the Bible with him to war. went to experience the worst possible experience. made grotesque and shocking art (even before the war). painted to rid himself of the war. | 22 | |
| 5304673 | Siegfried Sassoon | poet turned officer | 23 | |
| 5304674 | Battle of the Somme | single worst day in British military h istory. 1 million casualties. shot high-explosive shells--over 100,000 a day. then they went through no man's land but it was a disaster. slaughter on both sides. | 24 | |
| 5304675 | Mary Borden | an American woman who ran a field hospital because she was living in England during the war | 25 | |
| 5304676 | The Battle of the Somme (film) | first war documentary. very important. produced as a morale booster but that didn't work at all. never again would an official portrayal be so naive/realistic. | 26 | |
| 5304677 | Battle of Verdun | bloodbath for both sides. started by Germans as battle of attrition. took on a life of its own. poison gas used. longest battle in the war. 1 million French & german killed, wounded, or missing. french "won" in december. battle of attrition. | 27 | |
| 5304678 | Battle of Passchendaele | ver muddy and swampy. people were drowning in mud. total casualties: more than 500,000 | 28 | |
| 5304679 | Eric von Falkenhayn | German chief of general staff. at verdun, he wanted to bleed France white. | 29 | |
| 5304680 | Ypres | where Passchendaele was. Belgian city. key city in WWI | 30 | |
| 5304681 | Douglas Haig | commander general of Brits. committed to pushing German army out of France. | 31 | |
| 5304682 | attrition | military strategy of wearing down the enemy by making them suffer losses in men & material. cosntant harrassment style. Verdun was one. Somme was one. | 32 | |
| 5304683 | Paul Nash | official war artist. | 33 |
