World War One: People, Places, Battles, etc
61545950 | Triple Alliance | The alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy (didn't last) | 0 | |
61545951 | Otto von Bismarck | German, set up the Triple Alliance, had pact with Russia | 1 | |
61545952 | William II | German, ignored Russia and Triple Alliance, | 2 | |
61545953 | Schlieffen Plan | German plan to make a swift attack on France through Belgium | 3 | |
61545954 | Belgium | Tried to remain neutral, had a relationship with Britain | 4 | |
61545955 | Triple Entente | Friendly agreements between Britain, France, and Russia (called the Allies), Japan and Italy joined in as well | 5 | |
61545956 | Ottoman Empire | "sick man of Europe", Greece won independence (1829), Slavic areas in the north gaining independence, part of the Central Powers | 6 | |
61545957 | Archduke Franz Ferdinand | Austria-Hungary, visited Sarajevo, Bosnia in 1914 and was shot and killed | 7 | |
61545958 | Gavrilo Princip | A 19 year-old Serbian nationalist who shot Archduke and his wife | 8 | |
61545959 | Central Powers | The alliance between German, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire | 9 | |
61545960 | United States | Declared neutrality (isolationism), joined Allies when German sunk The Lusitania and the Zimmerman telegram was intercepted | 10 | |
61545961 | Isolationism | The policy were a country is neutral during a war and focuses on its own internal affairs. | 11 | |
61545962 | New Technology | Submarines | 12 | |
61545963 | The Lusitania | A British passenger liner sunk by a German submarine in 1915. Killed over 100 Americans. | 13 | |
61545964 | The Zimmerman telegram | A secret message sent between German diplomats suggesting that Mexico might want to join forces with Germany and in return regain lands lost to the US | 14 | |
61545965 | Women Suffrage Movement | Women took the roles of men at war. This revved up the movement and became the basis for a successful push by women in Britain and the US to gain the right to vote. | 15 | |
61545966 | Treaty of Versailles | Brought the end of WWI, France and Britain wanted to punish Germany (war reparations, release territory, and downsize military), divided Austria-Hungary, the treaty weakened Germany's economy and created resentment among the Germans. | 16 | |
61545967 | United States President Wilson | Created the Fourteen Points, more focused on establishing future peach and a workable balance of power, 14th point was the | 17 |