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153677974sick man of Europeanother name for the Ottoman Empire-- it had weakened economically, technologically, and militarily.0
153677975Franz FerdinandArchduke of Austria Hungary who was assassinated at Sarajevo by a Serbian terrorist group called the Black Hand; his death was a main cause of World War I1
153677976Entangling Alliances1 of the causes of WWI: Triple Alliance-Germany, Austria, Italy; Triple Entente: France, England, Russia2
153677977Western FrontA line of trenches and fortifications in World War I that stretched without a break from Switzerland to the North Sea. Scene of most of the fighting between Germany, on the one hand, and France and Britain, on the other.3
153677978Machine gunintroduced in WWI and fires bullets rapidly4
153677979Battle of Jutlandoff the coast of Denmark, the two fleets lost roughly equal numbers of ships, and the Germans escaped back to their harbors.5
153677980Women during World War Ifilled jobs vacated by soldiers, like streetcar drivers, mail carriers, police officers, bureaucrats, doctors, nurses, mechanics, and ambulance drivers, some even in military.6
153677981Wartime food rationingespecially strict in Germany with disappearance of flour and the "turnip winter".7
153677982Ottoman Turkssigned secret alliance with Germany, wanted to get land from Russia.8
153677983Caucasus campaignsexpelled the Armenians from homelands in eastern Anatolia. closed Dardanelles strait.9
153677984Zionismmovement of Jews wanting to return to homelands in Palestine, led by Theodore Herzl. said that Jewish homeland should be taken out of Ottoman empire and protected by British.10

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