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| 1390200469 | Militarism | A policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army always prepared for war | 0 | |
| 1390200470 | Alliance Forming | Dragged many large powers into the war that would not have normally associated with such drastic war efforts | 1 | |
| 1390200471 | Imperialism | A stronger country influencing a weaker country. It is significant because it is one of the causes of WWI | 2 | |
| 1390200473 | Nationalism | The desire for national independence often felt by people under foreign rule (such as English or French colonies or smaller states of an empire) | 3 | |
| 1390200474 | Triple Alliance | Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy during 1882; part of European alliance system and balance of power prior to World War I. | 4 | |
| 1390200476 | Triple Entente | Alliance between Britain, France, and Russia to counter the Triple Alliance; During 1904 | 5 | |
| 1390200478 | Epitomical Spark for WWI | Austro Hungarian Heir's murder | 6 | |
| 1390200481 | Franz Ferdinand | Archduke of Austria Hungary who was assassinated at Sarajevo by Gavillo Princip, from a Serbian terrorist group called the Black Hand; his death was a main cause for WWI | 7 | |
| 1390200483 | Austrias Ultimatum | July 23, Austro-Hungary sends ultimatum to Serbia where they have 48 hours to agree to everything on a list of rules or war efforts will ensue | 8 | |
| 1390200486 | The Schleiffen Plan | Called for a minimal troop deployment against Russia while most of the German army would make a rapid invasion of western France by way of neutral Belgium. | 9 | |
| 1390200487 | Britain Early On | Was assumed to not intervene in war, by Germany, but surprised them in the coming months | 10 | |
| 1390200488 | Belgian Peace Treaty | 1938; UK signed peace treaty ensuring belgian safety | 11 | |
| 1390200489 | UK's Ultimatum | Issued ultimatum to Germany stating it must withdraw from Belgium (to maintain its neutrality) or face war on another front | 12 | |
| 1390200490 | Germany vs. UK | Germany refused ultimatum and war ensued in August | 13 | |
| 1390200491 | Total War | War involving an entire nation; Mobilizing all aspect of society to prepare for and endure war | 14 | |
| 1390200492 | Machine Guns | -Developed before 1914 -Fire power of 8 rifles -Shot 8 bps | 15 | |
| 1390200493 | Poisonous Gas | -Used by the French Aug. 1914 -Broke the stalemate between troops hiding in bunkers -Good for stunning enemy and can kill people slowly -Bad b/c unreliable in bad weather and can be neutralized wih gas masks | 16 | |
| 1390200494 | Zeppelin | (large gas-filled balloon) structure of airship (used by Germany to bomb England) | 17 | |
| 1390200495 | American Involvement in WWI | -German Submarine Warfare -Sinking of the Lusitania -The Zimmerman Note | 18 | |
| 1390200496 | German Submarine Warfare | Instead of simply looting the defeated ships material, G.'s began taking prisoners and killing everyone | 19 | |
| 1390200497 | Pres. Wilson on G. Submarine Warfare | President Wilson condemned both sides on the matter; asserted rights for neutral citizens to sail on passenger ships of warring nations | 20 | |
| 1390200498 | Lusitania Sinking | May 7th,1915, Britain passenger ship is sunk by U-boats killing 1200 including 128 Americans. Wilson is outraged as are many Americans; US maintains neutrality although on April 6 some began pushing for war | 21 | |
| 1390200499 | Zimmerman Note | January 1917, British decode secret message to Mexican foreign minister pleading for them to join Germanys war efforts; Offered good plot of Mexican-Texas back to them when war was won. | 22 | |
| 1390200500 | Sussex Pledge | May 4, 1916; Germanys pledge to stop sinking US ships | 23 | |
| 1390200501 | US Joins War | April 6, 1917; Delcares war on Germany and its allies after it re-employs its Unrestricted Submarine Warfare and US mobilizes its troops | 24 | |
| 1390200502 | Allied Victory | 1918, 2 Million US soldiers joined the war and Russia has left it Germans launch a final offensive to push Allies back Allies, with US soldiers, successfully counteract | 25 | |
| 1390200503 | Victory WWI | -Kaiser flees -Kaiser William II steps down -German city dwellers revolt -Armistice signed -Hitler thinks the Kaiser weak for stepping down | 26 | |
| 1390200504 | Armistice for Germany and Allies | Nov. 11, 1918 at the 11th min. of the 11th hour the peace treaty is signed forcing all blame on Germany; If G. hadn't signed, Allies threatened war | 27 | |
| 1390200505 | Central Powers WWI | A military alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire. | 28 | |
| 1390200506 | Allied Powers WWI | Britain, France, Russia, later US | 29 | |
| 1390200507 | Battle of Marne | July 8th, 1918; French and US troops led by General Foch counteracted German advances on the Marne River. By Aug. 6 the G's lost 168,000 which was an important turn of battle for the Allied forces | 30 | |
| 1390200508 | Battle of Tannenburg | Aug. 26-30th, 1914; Russias 1st and 2nd armies invaded East Prussia in Germany but did not disguise their messages so Germany was lying in wait; Surrounded Russia, took all artillery, and killed 150,000 men. | 31 | |
| 1390200509 | Battle of Gallipoli | Feb. 1915; Allies tried to capture Constantinople but both naval attacks failed. April 25, Austria and Britains troops land in Galip. while the French stage a Southern diversion | 32 | |
| 1390200510 | Gallipoli Results | Higher death rate, higher turkish resistance so Allies withdrew January 1916 with Ottomans still in the war | 33 | |
| 1390200511 | Battle of Verdun | G. attacks Verdun wth an 8 hr artillery bombardment which left France with a loss of some large forts. G. lost 336,831/ France lost 400,000 | 34 | |
| 1390200512 | Batle of Ypres | April 22nd, 1915; French Algerians saw 68,000 of chlorine approaching from G side which killed 91,198 people | 35 | |
| 1390200513 | Battle of Somme | July 1916; Germans utilize machine guns while allies plan a breakthrough along the Somme river. June 24; UK began 6 day artillery bombardment of G. lines but G's hid in trenches and werent harmed. 7:20 am July 1st E' believed G. was destroyed and when walking was mowed down | 36 | |
| 1390200514 | Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendalle) | Spring 1917 Brit planned massive attack on G. front line in yPRES, belgium. The were going to break into Belgium, capture channel ports and stop German submarines from leaving/entering | 37 | |
| 1390200515 | Wilson's Goals | -Fourteen Points/ 1918 -progressive liberal -progressive idealism -Leage of Nationd->World Peace | 38 | |
| 1390200516 | Fourteen Points | 1918; Idealistic bid to initiate international moral leadership but was thought by conservative Germans to be a front for resource exploitation in the East | 39 | |
| 1390200517 | Progressive Idealism | Called for self determination (colonies), just peace, and peace without victory | 40 | |
| 1390200518 | Clemenceau | -France; wanted all blame to be put on Germany -sought revenge -demanded Alsace Lorraine territories -almost was assasinated | 41 | |
| 1390200519 | Lloyd George | -UK; more aggressive than US counterparts -Wanted to "make the Germans pay" -more willing to comprimise than France - needed to maintain their empire | 42 | |
| 1390200520 | German as a Result of the Treaty of Versailles | Army- reduced to 100,000 volunteers and w/out a legal air force Rep'r'tions- $300 billion in damages Land- 13% lost + all colonies, 75% of iron ores, all asian colonies, and merchant vessels Extras- 66 million people and expanding/ eventual economic collapse due to lack of trade caused resentment of Allied Powers | 43 | |
| 1390200521 | Russia 1801-1825 | Czar Alexander I experiments witth constituional gov't but still 40 million serfs are tied to the land and have no rights | 44 | |
| 1390200522 | Russia 1812-1825 | Napolean invades but retreats after capturing Moscow; Russian Army revolts and then is crushed | 45 | |
| 1390200523 | Russia 1825-55 | Czar Nicholas I uses secret ploice to put down any opponents escpecially students (free thinkers of the new generations) | 46 | |
| 1390200524 | Russia 1853-6 | Crimean War pits Russia against Turkey, UK, and France and loses | 47 | |
| 1390200525 | Russia 1855-81 | Czar Alexander II attempts governmental reforms | 48 | |
| 1390200526 | Russia 1861 | 22 Million serfs are emmancipated but remain poor and without rights | 49 | |
| 1390200527 | Russia 1870-81 | Radical students organize peasants as spark for revolution and then assasintate Czar Alexander II. Succesors end all political and economic reforms and all Jews are driven out of Russia | 50 | |
| 1390200528 | Russia 1894-1900 | Lenin goes into exile, russias iron is booming, labor unions are illegal but strikes occur andFrance and Russia allie against Germany | 51 | |
| 1390200529 | Russia 1904-5 | War between russia and japan, Russia loses; St. Petersburg proliteriats march for rights but soldiers open fire and kill 1,000 people | 52 | |
| 1390200530 | Lenin | Marxist Revolutionary | 53 | |
| 1390200531 | Bloody Sunday | St. Petersburg proliteriats march for rights but soldiers open fire and kill 1,000 people | 54 | |
| 1390200532 | Russia 1905-6 | Russian revolution and Czar agrees to give minimal power to the Duma; Czar dismisses the Duma | 55 | |
| 1390200533 | Duma | Russian Legislative Power | 56 | |
| 1390200534 | Russia 1907-14 | France, Britain, and Russia expande anti-G. alliance; Minister Stolypin tries to allow peasants to buy land but is assasinated; Franz Ferdinand is killed sparking WWI. R. sides with Serbia | 57 | |
| 1390200535 | Russia 1915-16 | Duma is once again suspended | 58 | |
| 1390200536 | Russia 1916-17 | Rasputin, the Czars chief advisor,is assasinated; Revolution begins in st. Petersburg and Duma demands a new gov't | 59 | |
| 1390200537 | Russia 1917 | -Revolution begins in st. Petersburg -Czar Nicholas II is forced to give up throne->later executed -Lenin returns to R. and leads the Bolshevik Revolution -Soldiers desert Russian army -Pro-Bolshevik town councils called soviets are armed with weapons -Bolsheviks seize power in Russia beginning the long famed reign of Soviet Russia | 60 | |
| 1390200538 | Russia 1918 | Lenin signed treaty of Brest-Litovsk with G.; civil war continues between Lenins red army and the Czars loyals the white army | 61 | |
| 1390200539 | White army | counter-revolutionaries loyal to Czar receiveing help from UK, Japan, and the US | 62 | |
| 1390200540 | Red Army | Led by Leon Trovsky; transformed into effective fighting force for the revolution | 63 | |
| 1390200541 | Russian Civil War | Millions died from famine and fighting; Bolsheviks finally won in 1821 | 64 | |
| 1390200542 | Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | (1918) seperate peace treaty signed by the Bolshevik government of the new USSR and Germany; USSR needed to make peace to focus on defeating the "Whites" (royalists) in the Russian Civil War, and it gave up Ukraine, Belarus, and the three Baltic countries after Germany invaded, an outcome worse than a German offer which chief Soviet negotiator Leon Trotsky had rejected. The treaty was negotiated in modern-day Brest (in Belarus) and was nullified by the subsequent Treaty of Versailles following Germany's defeat. | 65 |
