4547942846 | General Joffre: | Head of the allied troops during the war | 0 | |
4547942847 | Franz Ferdinand: | Heir to the Austria-Hungarian throne, murdered which sparked the war | 1 | |
4547942848 | Franz Joseph: | The emperor of Austria Hungary | 2 | |
4547942849 | Black Hand: | Terrorist group responsible for the death of the archduke | 3 | |
4547942850 | Gavrilo Princip: | the guy that assassinated franz ferdinand | 4 | |
4547942851 | Pan-Slavism: | desire to have an all-slavic balkans | 5 | |
4547942852 | Alsace-Lorraine: | area on german/french border | 6 | |
4547942853 | Unrestricted submarine warfare: | another reason the Us entered the war, shoot anything and everything except the allies | 7 | |
4547942854 | Zimmerman telegram: | one of the 3 reasons the USA entered the war, note that was intercepted by the US and was sent from Germany to the german ambassador in mexico promising an alliance between them. They said if Mexico helped them control the US then they would give them back Mexico, Texas, and Arizona | 8 | |
4547942855 | Schlieffen plan: | Germany's plan to win the war in four months | 9 | |
4547942856 | Contraband: | war materials, typically stolen or illegally traded | 10 | |
4547942857 | Trench warfare: | type of fighting practiced on the western front, each side fights out of trench with no man's land in the middle | 11 | |
4547942858 | No man's land: | area between the trenches, typically with barbed wire | 12 | |
4547942859 | Serbia: | one of the original countries that started the war | 13 | |
4547942860 | u-boats | submarines | 14 | |
4547942861 | War of attrition: | fighting to kill and wear down the other side | 15 | |
4547942862 | War Guilt Clause: | the part of the treaty that blamed the entire war on Germany | 16 | |
4547942863 | Compromise | : the compromise during the war was the treaty of versailles | 17 | |
4547942864 | Reparations: | war debts | 18 | |
4547942865 | Big Four: | four countries who ran the paris peace conference--USA,France,United Kingdom,Italy | 19 | |
4547942866 | Paris Peace Conference: | representatives from all of the victorious countries came together to make a treaty that would formally end the war. | 20 | |
4547942867 | Treaty: | a compromise between all victorious nations | 21 | |
4547942868 | Cordon Sanitaire: | new nations created as a buffer zone between Russia, Germany, and the rest of Europe | 22 | |
4547942869 | League of Nations | : an intergovernmental organization formed after the PPC and the goal was to maintain world peace | 23 | |
4547942870 | Cordon Sanitaire: | new nations created as a buffer zone between Russia, Germany, and the rest of Europe | 24 | |
4547942871 | League of Nations: | an intergovernmental organization formed after the PPC and the goal was to maintain world peace | 25 | |
4547942872 | Fourteen Points: | points made by woodrow wilson that were said to bring a lasting peace if followed | 26 | |
4547942873 | Woodrow Wilson: | USA President and representative a PPC who wanted peace | 27 | |
4547942874 | George Clemenceau: | French representative at PPC who wanted revenge | 28 | |
4547942875 | David Lloyd George: | British representative at PPC who worried the treaty was too harsh | 29 | |
4547942876 | Vittorio Orlando: | Italian representative at PPC | 30 | |
4547942877 | Russia: | allied power who was not invited to the PPC | 31 | |
4547942878 | causes of ww1 | Alliances Militarism Imperialism Nationalism | 32 | |
4547942879 | Nationalism | The Slavic people of the Balkans wanted to become independent countries | 33 | |
4547942880 | imperialism | Germany and Russia wanted control of the Bosphorus and Dardanelles. | 34 | |
4547942881 | militarism | Britain made sure that her navy was always larger than the combined navies of her 2 greatest enemies. | 35 | |
4547942882 | alliances | Although Britain and France were not fond of Russia, they agreed to work together should any of them be attacked by Germany or Austria-Hungary | 36 | |
4547942883 | Fighting countries: | Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Ottoman empire, Italy, Russia, Great Britain, France, Serbia, USA, Belgium | 37 | |
4547942884 | Where they fought: | Eastern Front-Russia and Germany, Western Front-France, Germany Belgium | 38 | |
4547942885 | New weapons of WWI: | tank, machine guns, gases, barbed wire, U-boats | 39 | |
4547942886 | Battle of the Marne | The first battle-It signified the end of the Schlieffen plan and proved that the war would be a slow one | 40 | |
4547942887 | Battle of Tannenberg | Proved that Russia isn't fit to fight | 41 | |
4547942888 | Battle of Ypres | It ended in a draw. The first battle that involved poison gas. | 42 | |
4547942889 | Battle of Verdun | Trench warfare begins | 43 | |
4547942890 | Battle of the Somme | Tank is introduced | 44 | |
4547942891 | Gallipoli Campaign | Disaster for Brits so they retreat | 45 |
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