Vocab for class at Niceville HS. The list is chapter 27.
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| 9640756 | Balkan Wars | Servia, Greece, and Bulgaria took Macedonia from the Ottomans in 1912. Servia then fought Bulgaria in the second Balkan War in 1913. Austria intervened to stop the war. | |
| 9640757 | Berlin Conference, 1885 | Laid down the rules for the conquest of Africa: 1) European coutries holding a coast inland. 2) Occupation must be with real troops. 3) Must give notice of which countries were occupied. 4) Started the scramble for Africa. | |
| 9656370 | Black Hand | Ultra Nationalist, Servian Society. Secretly supported by members of the Serbian government. | |
| 9656410 | Conscription | Forced recruitment into the army to meet the needs of war. | |
| 9656411 | Charles I | (1887-1922) Last Austrian Emperor abdicated Nov 1918. The next day Austria was declared a Republic as was Hungary. | |
| 9656412 | Entente Cordial | Britain gained control of Egypt. France gained control of Morocco. But not a written alliance, only an agreement. Basically against Germany. | |
| 9656413 | Archduke Franz Ferdinand | Heir to the Austria-Hungarian throne, was assassinated in Sarajevo, started World War I. | |
| 9657720 | David Lloyd George | Great Britain's Representative at the Treaty of Versailles, wanted Germany to be punished fairly | |
| 9657721 | Isolationism | Not becoming involved in global or regional events. | |
| 9657722 | Joseph Joffre | French general led the French at the Battle of the Marne. | |
| 9657723 | Kaiser Wilhelm II | Germany. Dismissed Bismarck in 1890. Did not renew Bismarck's treaty with Russia and "Forced" Russia to look for another ally, France. | |
| 9657724 | Kruger Telegram | William II sent Kruger of the Transvaal a congratulatory telegram upon hearing of the failure of the Jamison Raid. Alerted Britain of the dangers from Germany. | |
| 9657725 | V. I. Lenin | Believed in Marxist Socialism: 1) Believed capitalism must be destroyed. 2) A oscial revolution was possible in backward Russia. 3) The need for highly trained workers parly controlled by revolutionaries like himself. | |
| 9657726 | League of Nations | Allies worked out terms for peace with Germany, 1919, precursor to the United Nations. | |
| 9657727 | Lusitania | Sunk in 1915 by a German submarine. 139 Americans killed. Forced Germany to stop submarine warfare. | |
| 9657728 | Battle of the Marne | A major French victory against the invading German army at the start of WWI. In reality lost Germany the war. | |
| 9657729 | Morocco Crisis, 1911 | After the French received Morocco, Germany demanded an international conference. German bullying forced England and France closer. Germany gained nothing. | |
| 9657730 | Nicholas II | The last Tsar. Wanted supreme rule of army and government. Led the armies to defeat. Forced to abdicate in 1917 by the Duma. | |
| 9657731 | Gavrilo Princip | The assassin of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria, a member of the Black Hand. | |
| 9657732 | Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | Treaty between Bolsheviks and Germans to get Russia out of the war. 1) Russia lost 1/3 of her population. 2) Height of German success in WWI. Signed by Lenin. | |
| 9657733 | Treaty of Versailles | Negotiated by the Big Three. Germany was stripped of colonies, Alsace and Loraine given back to France. Poland was reconstituted as a state. Polish corridor would split Prussia from Germany. The Saar region would be French for 15 years. Heavy repercussions (not specified until later). | |
| 9657734 | Battle of Verdun | 1916 German assault on the French fortress, turned into a battle of attrition France won. | |
| 9657735 | Triple Entente | 1914, Great Britain, France, and Russia. | |
| 9657736 | Wilson's Fourteen Points | President Wilson's Peace proposal in 1918 stressed national self-determination and the rights of the small countries. Freedon of the seas and free trade. Clemenceau said, "God only had ten". | |
| 9657737 | Woodrow Wilson | U>S> President who led USA into WWI. He proposed the 14 points. He attended the peace conference at Versailles. | |
| 9657738 | Zimmerman Telegram | German Arthur Zimmerman sent a telegram to the German minister in Mexico Dity telling him to promise the Mexican President German help if Mexico went to war with the U.S. The telegram was intercepted and decoded by the British, shocked the American public. |
