289654541 | The Congress Of Vienna | September Of 1814 To June Of 1815 Is A Conference Of European;States Send Representatives. Not All States Sent The Same Number Of Persons.. First Intercontinental Meeting Of Its Time. | 0 | |
289654542 | Materialism | Military Forces Are Given High Priority By The Government. In Social Policy And Budget. Investment In The Military The Military Gets Much Much Stronger.. | 1 | |
289654543 | Dreadnought | Belongs To The UK. They Were Talking About Who Has The Strongest Empire.. This Battleship Makes All Other Battleships Obsolete. It Was Built In 1906. At The Time It Was The Fastest, Also Was The First To Using Steam Turbines, Has Electronics Waves So It Can See How Far The Guns Are Going To Shoot. Only Battleship That Sank A Submarine,It Ran It Over.. | 2 | |
289654544 | Alliances | Are Agreements Made Between Two Or More Countries To Give Each Other Help When Needed. - When Signed Those Countries Can Be Called Allies. | 3 | |
289654545 | Imperialism | Control Or Taking Of Land. One Countries Take There Land And Makes It Under Their Rule. - Britain On 5 Continents, France Has A Lot Of Land. Germany Is Jealous Of France And Britain. | 4 | |
289654546 | Unification Of The German State | Otto Van Bismark Ultimately Become Ruler Of Germany, He Also Unifies Many States. Britain And France Don't Really Have A Problem. Germany Becomes A Major Center Of Manufacturing And An Educational Center. | 5 | |
289654547 | Nationalism | Extreme Love And Devotion TO A Culture And Nation. Is Far More Extreme Than Patriotism. | 6 | |
289654548 | Congress Of Berlin | Held In Berlin-Set Up For A Variety Of Reasons ; Set Up To Help When The Fall Of The Ottoman Empire. Its Much More Formal. They Are more Focused On There Goals. Otto Van Bismark Takes The Lead For A Solid Month. Its Aimed At Decreasing The Ottoman Lines. -Final Act That Come About The Treaty Of Berlin | 7 | |
289654549 | Treaty Of Berlin 1878 | Lots Of Re-Drawing Bulgaria Becomes And Independent Special Treatment For Those Who Were Accused Of Religious Persecution. Otto Van Bismark Feels Left Out At The End | 8 | |
289654550 | Triple Alliance | Italy, Germany,And Austria Hungary | 9 | |
289654551 | Archduke Franz Ferdinand He Is The Archduke Of Austria Hungary | Respected By Most European Leaders, He Was Sarcastic. June 28,1914 He Is In Sarajevo; And He Is Assassinated Along With His Wife [Shot] Many Times. Seal Of The Black Hand Take Responsibility For His Assassination {Gavrilo Princep} Is The One Who Shot Him. | 10 | |
289654552 | Pan Salvic Movment | Desire To Unite All Russian People Under One Leader One Land | 11 | |
289654553 | Pan German Movement | Desire To Unite All German People Under One Leader One Land. | 12 | |
304975052 | Time Line Of The Death... | Assassination Of Archduke Ferdinand Austria Blames Serbia And Declares War On Serbia. Germany Declares Their Support Of Austria Hungary Russia Pledges Their Support For Serbia Germany Declares War On Russia France Pledges Their Support Of Russia Germany Declares War On France Germany Invades Belgium On Their Way To France Great Britain Supports Belgium And Declares War On Germany | 13 | |
304975053 | The Schieffen Plan | Luxembourg & Belgium Germany Comes Up With This Belgium At This Point Is Neutral | 14 | |
304975054 | Trench Warfare | A Military Strategies Or Combat In Which Opposing Forces Fight From Trenches Facing Each Other. The Parapet Are Sand Bags Parados Are Filled With Sand, And They Absorb The Bullets. | 15 | |
304975055 | Dysentery | Inflammation Of Your Large Intestine; And It Because Of The Dirty Water That They Have To Stand In.. | 16 | |
304975056 | Lice And Pyrexia | They Had To Burn Your Clothes So It Would Cause Trouble In The Trench. If The Lice Got Bad Than Pyrexia happened Were They Would Get Very Sick And A Lot Of Fever. | 17 | |
304975057 | Trench Foot | Were You Stand in Water Too Long, They Got Blisters On Their Feet. | 18 | |
304975058 | Genocide | The Deliberate And Systematic Extermination Of National Racial Political Or Cultural Group. | 19 | |
304975059 | Propaganda | Information, Ideas Or Rumors That Deliberately Spread To Help Or Harm A Person, Group, Movement Or A Nation. | 20 | |
304975060 | Allied Forces | Great Britain, Russia, France | 21 | |
304975061 | Central Forces | Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, And The Ottoman Empire. | 22 | |
304975062 | Young Turks | Their Group Forms In the Ottoman Empire They Are Radicals. They Wanted Things To Change They Rebelled Frequently. When the Ottoman Empire War In 1914, They Enter On The Central Side. They Relocate The Armenians. Before They Move They Are Told To Turn In All Of The Weapons That They Own, They Ottoman Empire Told Them To Do That So That They Wouldn't Fight Back. Than They Take All The Men, And They Were Sent Of To Fight In The War(Work Camps). Woman And Children Are Left. | 23 | |
304975063 | Death March | Armenians Were Raped, Starved, Killed Etc.. Woman Weren't Told Were Their Husbands Were Gonna Go. They Were Sent To Death Camps In The Syrian Desert. Only Some Found A Way To Escape, And They Would Get Away. | 24 | |
304975064 | Economy | United States Had Large Investments, And Huge Trade And Loans. Financially We Were Very Tied To England And France. We Invested So Much. We Were Afraid That If Their Economy Was To Fall, We Would Also Fall. | 25 | |
304975065 | Boats | There Are Two Ships Lusitania, And Housatonic. | 26 | |
304975066 | Lusitania | It Is A English Cruise Ship, It Was Sunk By Germans In 1915. This Involves The Americans Because 1200 Were Killed And 120 Were Americans. January Of 1917 Germany Sends Out a Declaration That Says That They Will No Longer Restrict Submarine Warfare At All. That means That The Germans Will attack At Any Ship They Wanted To. | 27 | |
304975067 | Housatonic | United States Had A Cargo Ship Named The Housatonic, And February 3rd 1917 It Sunk, It Is The First On Many That Are Sunk. In April 2nd 1917, Wilson Asks For A Declaration Of War. On April 6th Congress Declares War. | 28 | |
304975068 | Zimmerman Telegraph | They Are A Series Dots And Dashes. Zimmerman Knows That Germany Is Going To Lift Al The Restrictions, He Thinks That The United States Is Going To Declare War On Germany. He Wants To Give A Note To Mexico. That Says "If You Are On Our Side We Will Offer You Financial Support." England Intercepts The Note. Early On They Don't Want To Share It, Because They Don't Want Them To Know That They Are Unlocking Codes. February 19th Shown To U.S Official, And On February 23rd It Is Shown To President Wilson. | 29 | |
304975069 | Propaganda | The Most famous One Is The Uncle Sam One " I want you For U.S. Army" | 30 | |
304975070 | Machine Guns | Very Different To The Ones We have Today. Manned By 4-6 People To Effectively Run The Machine Gun. A Huge Problem Is That They Got Jammed Because They Got very Hot. They Would Try To Cool Them By Putting Water On Them, In Trenches They Became Hard To Use Because Of It Overheating, Then We Were Left With A Choice To Use The Dirty Water. | 31 | |
304975071 | Tanks | They Helped When A Trench Battle Was Getting Stale. But Sometimes The Tanks Fell Into The Trenches. | 32 | |
304975072 | U Boats | Is A Type Of Submarine Perfected By The Germans. The U Boat Could Go Deeper And Could Carry More Weight. It made Them Pretty effective. Torpedoes Were Also Added In WWI. | 33 | |
304975073 | Chemical Warfare | There Were 3 Kinds | 34 | |
304975074 | Lachrymator | It Is The Tear Gas That They Used. And It Inflames The Nose And Throat, And Made It Hard To Breath. | 35 | |
304975075 | Asphyxiant | It Is Made Of ... Chlorine, And It Suffocates You. Used Commonly In The Trenches. Some Of the Gas Masks Weren't very Protective and Some People Died Of Suffocation | 36 | |
304975076 | Diphosgene | Mustard Gas. Exposes Moist Skin., Which Is Like The Eyes, Nose And Mouth. It Scares People | 37 | |
304975077 | Zeppelin | It Was A Blimp, And it Carried Bombs And Machine Guns. They Weren't Very Good Because They Were Huge So It Made Them A Target So They Got Shoot Down | 38 | |
304975078 | Planes | They Were Just Used To Deliver Bombs, But After A While They Got In Fight Up In The Air It Was Known As A "Dog Fight" | 39 | |
304975079 | Casualty | Member Of Armed Forces Lost To Armed Forces Death Wounds,Lost,Capture | 40 | |
304975080 | Tannenberg | Aug 23-3- 1914, Between Russia And Germans And Is One Of The Earliest Battles Of WWI. The Germans Have 160,000 And The Russians Have 460,000.The Germans Advantage Were Trains. | 41 | |
304975081 | Battle Of Ypres | There Were 5. It Was Germans; French; And British. First Battle And Third Battle Hitler Fought In. | 42 | |
304975082 | Battle Of Verdun | February 21- December 18 1916. Longest Battle Of World War 1. Germans Think That They Are Going To Not Win Because Its Purpose Was To Drain French Forces. 1 Million German Troops And About 200,000 French. | 43 | |
304975083 | Battle Of Jutland | May 31- June 1,1916. Greatest Naval Battle. No Subs Or Planes Involved. Fought Great Britain And Germany. | 44 | |
304975084 | Brusilov Offensive | June 4 - September 20, 1916. Russia And A Combination Of Austria-Hungary, Germany And Ottoman Empire. Known As Russia's Greatest Victory. Russia Has 1 Million Casualties. Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, And Germany Face 1,325,000 Casualties. | 45 | |
304975085 | Battle Of Somme | July 1- November 16, 1916. England And France Against Germany. England Planned For Many Weeks. 60,000 Died On July 1st Alone. A Lot Of The Guys Are Volunteered Forces. First Use Of Tank. | 46 | |
304975086 | Western Front | Britain And France vs. Germany | 47 | |
304975087 | Eastern Front | Germany And Austria-Hungary vs. Russia | 48 | |
304975088 | Italian Front | Italy vs. Austria-Hungary | 49 | |
304975089 | Balkan | Britain vs. Ottoman Empire | 50 | |
304975090 | Belleau Wood | June 1-26 1918 Its Against Germany And The United States. Very Bloody Battle. US Has 10,00 Casualties. We Take 16,000 Germans As POW. {Prisoner Of War}. During The Fighting Germany Gets Mad Because We Are Doing So Good, They Call The Marines "Dogs Of Hells". | 51 | |
304975091 | Meuse Argonne Campaign | September 26 - November 11, 1918. Centered Around Argonne Forest. We Are Going To Attack Were They Are Most Comfortable. | 52 | |
304975092 | Armistice | An Armistice Is Declared,Its When Two Opposing Sides Have An Agreement To Stop Fighting. Its Given On The 11th Day, Of The 11th Moth, At The 11th Hour. | 53 |
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