Traditions and Encounters Chapter 33: Sections 1-2
9396940947 | What were the long term causes of World War I? | Nationalism, Imperialism, Militarism, and alliances | 0 | |
9396940948 | How did nationalism spread by the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars cause WWI? | Self-determination suggested that each ethnic group had a right to a sovereign state, concept was ignored or opposed by dynastic powers, considerable nationalistic tensions in Ottoman, Hapsburg, and Russian empires | 1 | |
9396940949 | What did Slavic nationalism do? | stressed kinship of all Slavic peoples | 2 | |
9396940950 | What two countries had a naval race which increased tensions? | Germany and Britain, Germany's rapid industrialization threatened British economic predominance, both states built huge iron battleships, called dreadnoughts | 3 | |
9396940951 | What types colonial disputes of the late 19th century cause? | Germany unified in 1871; came late to the colonial race, German resentment and antagonism toward both France and Britain, France and Germany nearly fought over Morocco in 1905, Balkan wars (1912-13) further strained European diplomatic relations | 4 | |
9396940952 | What supported national rivalries? | Public opinion | 5 | |
9396940953 | Who formed the Dual Alliance in 1879? | Germany and Austria-Hungary | 6 | |
9396940954 | Who formed the Triple Alliance? | Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy | 7 | |
9401681726 | What was the catalyst for war? | the assassination of Francis Ferdinand by a Serbian nationalist | 8 | |
9401713670 | What were the two camps called before the war? | the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente | 9 | |
9401735755 | What did the two camps become known as during the war? | Central Powers and Allied Powers | 10 | |
9401766811 | Which countries formed the Allied Powers? | Britain, France, and Russia | 11 | |
9401784108 | What were the war plans? | Military leaders devised inflexible military plans and timetables, France's Plan XVII focused on offensive maneuvers and attacks, Germany's Schlieffen plan | 12 | |
9401786644 | What was the Schlieffen Plan? | Germany's plan, swift attack on France, then defensive against Russia | 13 | |
9401886018 | What happened after Gavrilo Princip shot and killed Francis Ferdinand? | Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, July 28, Russia mobilized troops to defend its Serbian ally against the Central Powers, Germany: July 31, sent ultimatums to Russia and France, which were ignored, Germany declared war on Russia and France, invaded Belgium to reach France, August 4: to protect Belgium's neutrality, Britain declared war on German | 14 | |
9401894825 | What does Gott mit uns (German) mean? | God is with us | 15 | |
9401931628 | What happened on the western front? | German invasion of France halted along the river Marne for three years, trenches on the western front ran from the English Channel to Switzerland, Italy entered war with Allies, maintained defensive line against Austria-Hungary | 16 | |
9401952008 | What were new weapons of the war? | poisonous gas, armored tanks, airplanes, submarines | 17 | |
9401976273 | What happened on the eastern front? | Austrian-German forces overran Serbia, Albania, and Romania, Russia invaded Prussia 1915, but was soon driven out, Russians' counterattacks in 1916-1917 collapsed in a sea of casualties | 18 | |
9401992931 | How many people died from mustard gas? | 800,000 | 19 | |
9402015051 | What was the French rally cry at Verdun? | they shall not pass | 20 | |
9402027780 | What happened on the home front? | the economy mobilized to the war effort, governments militarized civilian war production, imposed wage and price controls, extended military draft in Germany from ages sixteen to sixty | 21 | |
9402042897 | What did Karl von Moltke predict? | future wars would not end with a single battle, because the defeat of a nation would not be acknowledged until the whole strength of its people was broken (note: he was right ) | 22 | |
9402089390 | How did the war affect women? | Took over jobs vacated by soldiers, did hazardous work with explosives, shells, TNT, a liberating experience, especially for middle- and upper-class women, women granted the vote in western nations after the war | 23 | |
9402106141 | What were propaganda campaigns designed to do? | maintain national support for the war, dehumanize the enemy | 24 | |
9402122347 | Who did Japan enter the war with? | the Allied Powers | 25 | |
9402135632 | What were the 21 demands? | Japan advanced its imperial interests in China, the Twenty-One Demands were designed to reduce China to Japanese protectorate, Britain intervened, prevented total capitulation of China to Japan | 26 | |
9402160896 | What were the affects of the Battle of Gallipoli? | a disaster, with 250,000 casualties on each side, weakened ties of loyalty between Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Britain | 27 | |
9402188996 | How did the Armenian Genocide occur? | Armenians retaliated to the Ottoman state's abuses, which caused a confrontation. Armenians were seeking independence and the Ottoman state adopted a new policy of Turkish nationalism. During WWI, Ottoman government branded the Armenians as traitors and a threat to safety which unleashed a murderous campaign against them | 28 | |
9402243682 | What happened during the Armenian Genocide? | Armenians were forced to evacuate, which was accompanied by starvation, dehydration, and exposure. In addition, many government massacres occurred which led to the death of tons of Armenians | 29 | |
9402274283 | What was the Balfour Declaration? | British government publically declared its support for "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" | 30 |