72159259 | Balkan Peninsula | powdered keg of Europe | 0 | |
72159260 | Triple Alliance | Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy | 1 | |
72159261 | Triple Entente | Russia, Britain, France | 2 | |
72159262 | Princip | assassinator of Archduke Ferdinand | 3 | |
72159263 | Schlieffen Plan | Knock out France first - plan | 4 | |
72159264 | Moltke | leader of German military responsible for carrying out schlieffen plan | 5 | |
72159265 | Battle of Tannenburg | Germany won with General Hindenburg | 6 | |
72159266 | Battle of Ypres | Fight for port cities in the north; France stops Germany; and Germany dug; trench warfare | 7 | |
72159267 | 1914 | Year Germany hoped to knock out France; failed | 8 | |
72159268 | 1915 | Year Germany was going after Russia to knock Russia out | 9 | |
72159269 | Gallipoli | taking of Dardanelles to supply Russia at Sevastapol; bloody failure | 10 | |
72159270 | 1916 | Year Germany returned to attack France both on land and sea Stalemate | 11 | |
72159271 | Verdun | General Petain "They Shall not Pass" was said at this battle; six month battle | 12 | |
72159272 | Somme | 4 month battle; 60,000 dead in first four hours; more than one million casualties total, but this battle changed nothing. | 13 | |
72163456 | Jutland | Naval Battle | 14 | |
72163457 | Lusitania | Luxury British liner sunk by Germans | 15 | |
72163458 | Sussex Pledge | promise by Germany on no more U.S. warfare | 16 | |
72163459 | Zimmerman telegram | German ambassador to Mexico to back Germans and attack U.S. if U.S. gets in WW1 | 17 | |
72163460 | Kerensky | Russian leader after overthrowing of Czar Nicholaus; kept russia in the war, which led to Lenin taking over | 18 | |
72163461 | 1917 | year U.S. enters war after naval sinkages; Bolshevik Revolution | 19 | |
72163462 | Lenin | sealed from Switzerland to Germany thru Russia; led Bolshevik Revolution October of 1917 | 20 | |
72163463 | Ludendorf | German Commander | 21 | |
72163464 | Foch | Supreme Commander (French) | 22 | |
72163465 | Weimer republic | government set up to get all the blame for the war; brought about Great Inflation | 23 | |
72163466 | Clemenceau | French representative at Treaty of Versailles | 24 | |
72163467 | peace, land and bread | Russian motto by Lenin | 25 | |
72163468 | Bloody Sunday | march to winter Palace to inform czar | 26 | |
72163469 | Brest-Litovsk | Treaty in which ended the war for Russia, but Russia lost lots of land | 27 | |
72163470 | leon Trotsky | leader of Red Army | 28 | |
72163471 | Stalin | introduced gulag prison camps, five year plans, and great purges. | 29 | |
72163472 | Black Shirts | Italy political group that Mussolini led | 30 | |
72163473 | March on Rome | Mussolini set as leader and asked for emergency power | 31 | |
72163474 | Stresemann | leader of Germany during Economic Recovery from 1924-1929 | 32 | |
72163475 | Martial law | rule by military before elections | 33 | |
72163476 | Enabling Law | chancellor can rule by decree | 34 | |
72163477 | Hess | leader of Gestapo | 35 | |
72163478 | Himmler | leadleader of SS | 36 | |
72163479 | Goering | leader of Luftwaffe | 37 | |
72163480 | Eichmann | suggested Final Solution | 38 | |
72163481 | Goebels | Propaganda minister of Germany | 39 |
World War I & Interwar Years Flashcards
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