HCEC High School
261225998 | Triple Alliance | Alliance between Germany, Italy, Austria Hungry | |
261225999 | Triple Entente | An alliance between Great Britain, France and Russia in the years before WWI. | |
261226000 | Serbia | a historical region in central and northern Yugoslavia; supported by Russia in 1914 | |
261226001 | Archduke Francis Ferdinand | heir to the throne of Austria Hungary; assassinated by Gavrilo Princip, a bosnian serb.; sparked WWI | |
261226002 | Bosnia | The country Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife visited when he was assassinated | |
261226003 | Gavrilo Princip | The assassin of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria, a member of the Black Hand | |
261226004 | Emperor William II | leader of Germany during WWI | |
261226005 | Czar Nicholas II | ruler of Russia; he was overthrown during the Russian Revolution of 1917; he and his family were killed by the revolution's leadership. | |
261226006 | General Alfred von Schieffen | helped draw up the Schlieffen Plan | |
261226007 | Marne | Battle near paris that ended Germany's hope of swift victory | |
261226008 | Gallipoli | Allies tried to open a Balkan front by landing forces here; southwest of Constantiple | |
261226009 | Lawrence of Arabia | urged Arab princes to revolt against their Ottoman overlords | |
261226010 | Admiral Holtzendorf | admiral in Germany; assurred the United States Germany would not be a problem in the war | |
261226011 | Woodrow Wilson | 28th President of the United States | |
261226012 | Grigory Rasputin | He began to influence the czar's wife, Alexendra | |
261226013 | Alexandra | Czar Nicholas II's wife | |
261226014 | Petrograd | St. Petersburg | |
261226015 | Aleksandr Kerensky | head of Russian provisional government after revolution. | |
261226016 | Bolsheviks | A Marxist party known as the Russian Social Democrats and became dedicated to violent revolution | |
261226017 | V.I. Lenin | Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, leader of the Bolsheviks | |
261226018 | Ukraine | a republic in southeastern Europe | |
261226019 | Siberia | a vast Asian region of Russia from which the first serious threat to the communist came from | |
261226020 | Urals | a mountain range in western Russia extending from the arctic to the Caspian Sea; contains Yekaterinburg | |
261226021 | Leon Trotsky | Russian revolutionary and Communist theorist who helped Lenin and built up the army | |
261226022 | Erich Ludendorff | guided German military operations | |
261226024 | Friedrich Ebert | leader of Social Democrats who announced the creation of a democratic republic | |
261226025 | David Lloyd George | British prime minister during WWI | |
261226026 | Georges Clemenceau | premier of France during WWI | |
261226027 | Alsace | Taken by the Germans from France | |
261226028 | Lorraine | Taken by the Germans from France | |
262042062 | Conscription | a military draft | |
262042063 | Mobilization | the process of assembling troops and supplies for war | |
262042064 | Military | associated with or performed by armed services as contrasted with civilians | |
262042065 | Complex | a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts | |
262042066 | Propaganda | ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause | |
262042067 | Trench War | fighting from ditches protected by barbed wire, as in World War I | |
262042068 | War of Attrition | a war based on wearing the other side down by constant attacks and heavy losses, such as World War I | |
262042069 | Total War | a war that involves the complete mobilization of resources and people, affecting the lives of all citizens in the warring countries, even those remote from the battlefields | |
262042070 | Planned Economies | economic systems directed by government agencies | |
262042071 | Target | something or someone marked for attack | |
262042072 | Unrestricted | having no restrictions | |
262042073 | Soviets | councils composed of representatives from the workers and soldiers | |
262042074 | War Communism | in World War I Russia, government control of banks and most industries, the seizing of grain from peasants, and the centralization of state administration under Communist control | |
262042075 | Revolution | a sudden, complete change; an overthrow of government | |
262042076 | Aid | assistance such as money or supplies | |
262042077 | Armistice | a truce, an agreement to end fighting | |
262042078 | Reparations | vast payments | |
262042079 | Mandates | nation controlling over other nation | |
262042080 | Psychological | mental; directed toward the will or mind | |
262042081 | Cooperation | common effort |