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289654541The Congress Of ViennaSeptember 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
289654542MaterialismMilitary Forces Are Given High Priority By The Government. In Social Policy And Budget. Investment In The Military The Military Gets Much Much Stronger..1
289654543DreadnoughtBelongs 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
289654544AlliancesAre Agreements Made Between Two Or More Countries To Give Each Other Help When Needed. - When Signed Those Countries Can Be Called Allies.3
289654545ImperialismControl 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
289654546Unification Of The German StateOtto 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
289654547NationalismExtreme Love And Devotion TO A Culture And Nation. Is Far More Extreme Than Patriotism.6
289654548Congress Of BerlinHeld 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 Berlin7
289654549Treaty Of Berlin 1878Lots 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 End8
289654550Triple AllianceItaly, Germany,And Austria Hungary9
289654551Archduke Franz Ferdinand He Is The Archduke Of Austria HungaryRespected 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
289654552Pan Salvic MovmentDesire To Unite All Russian People Under One Leader One Land11
289654553Pan German MovementDesire To Unite All German People Under One Leader One Land.12
304975052Time 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 Germany13
304975053The Schieffen PlanLuxembourg & Belgium Germany Comes Up With This Belgium At This Point Is Neutral14
304975054Trench WarfareA 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
304975055DysenteryInflammation Of Your Large Intestine; And It Because Of The Dirty Water That They Have To Stand In..16
304975056Lice And PyrexiaThey 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
304975057Trench FootWere You Stand in Water Too Long, They Got Blisters On Their Feet.18
304975058GenocideThe Deliberate And Systematic Extermination Of National Racial Political Or Cultural Group.19
304975059PropagandaInformation, Ideas Or Rumors That Deliberately Spread To Help Or Harm A Person, Group, Movement Or A Nation.20
304975060Allied ForcesGreat Britain, Russia, France21
304975061Central ForcesGermany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, And The Ottoman Empire.22
304975062Young TurksTheir 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
304975063Death MarchArmenians 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
304975064EconomyUnited 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
304975065BoatsThere Are Two Ships Lusitania, And Housatonic.26
304975066LusitaniaIt 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
304975067HousatonicUnited 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
304975068Zimmerman TelegraphThey 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
304975069PropagandaThe Most famous One Is The Uncle Sam One " I want you For U.S. Army"30
304975070Machine GunsVery 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
304975071TanksThey Helped When A Trench Battle Was Getting Stale. But Sometimes The Tanks Fell Into The Trenches.32
304975072U BoatsIs 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
304975073Chemical WarfareThere Were 3 Kinds34
304975074LachrymatorIt Is The Tear Gas That They Used. And It Inflames The Nose And Throat, And Made It Hard To Breath.35
304975075AsphyxiantIt 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 Suffocation36
304975076DiphosgeneMustard Gas. Exposes Moist Skin., Which Is Like The Eyes, Nose And Mouth. It Scares People37
304975077ZeppelinIt 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 Down38
304975078PlanesThey 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
304975079CasualtyMember Of Armed Forces Lost To Armed Forces Death Wounds,Lost,Capture40
304975080TannenbergAug 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
304975081Battle Of YpresThere Were 5. It Was Germans; French; And British. First Battle And Third Battle Hitler Fought In.42
304975082Battle Of VerdunFebruary 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
304975083Battle Of JutlandMay 31- June 1,1916. Greatest Naval Battle. No Subs Or Planes Involved. Fought Great Britain And Germany.44
304975084Brusilov OffensiveJune 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
304975085Battle Of SommeJuly 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
304975086Western FrontBritain And France vs. Germany47
304975087Eastern FrontGermany And Austria-Hungary vs. Russia48
304975088Italian FrontItaly vs. Austria-Hungary49
304975089BalkanBritain vs. Ottoman Empire50
304975090Belleau WoodJune 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
304975091Meuse Argonne CampaignSeptember 26 - November 11, 1918. Centered Around Argonne Forest. We Are Going To Attack Were They Are Most Comfortable.52
304975092ArmisticeAn 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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