1418214240 | Triple Entente | A loose confederation of of Russia, France, and Great Britain before WWI | 0 | |
1418214241 | June 28, 1914 | Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed on this day. Setting off the chain of events leading to WWI. | 1 | |
1418214242 | Allies | Great Britain, France, U.S., Russia, Belgium, Serbia | 2 | |
1418214243 | Stalemate | Large numbers of troops lost on both sides without major gains | 3 | |
1418214244 | Total War | A war in which all of a country's resources are devoted to the fighting. | 4 | |
1418214245 | Vladimir Lenin | Leader of the Bolshevik Party. Returned to Russia to lead the Bolsheviks to victory during the Russian Revolution and the civil war that followed. | 5 | |
1418214246 | Paris Peace Conference | the event at which the Allies met to discuss the fate of Europe after WWI | 6 | |
1418214247 | Treaty of Versilles | The treaty that ended WWI and blamed the Germans for the war. Putting into place the following against Germany: 1. Responsible for War 2. Smaller army and Navy 3. No air force 4. Territory returned to France 5. Land given to Poland 6. Demilitarized zone by France | 7 | |
1418214248 | Bolsheviks | A party of revolutionary Marxists, led by Vladimir Lenin, who seized power in Russia in 1917. | 8 | |
1418214249 | Joseph Stalin | Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition. | 9 | |
1418214250 | League of Nations | A world organization established in 1920 to promote international cooperation and peace. It was first proposed in 1918 by President Woodrow Wilson during the Paris Peace Conference. | 10 | |
1418214251 | November 11, 1918 | Armistice was signed stopping the fighting during WWI | 11 | |
1418214252 | June 28, 1919 | Treaty of Versailles was signed officially ending WWI. | 12 | |
1418214253 | July 28, 1914 | Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia and starts WWI. | 13 | |
1418214254 | Genocide | a deliberate and systematic extermination of any ethnic, race, religious, or political group. | 14 | |
1418214255 | 8,000,000 | the number of people killed during WWI | 15 | |
1418214258 | Archduke Franz Ferdinand | Whose assassination in 1914 started World War I? | 16 | |
1418214259 | Members of the Central Powers | Ottoman Empire (Turkey), Germany, and Austria-Hungary | 17 | |
1418214261 | This area was known as the "powder keg of Europe" | the Balkans | 18 | |
1418214262 | Germany's leader during World War I | Wilhelm II | 19 | |
1418214263 | Germany's leader after World War 1 | Adolf Hitler | 20 | |
1418214264 | What was the Schlieffen Plan? | In order to keep from fighting a two foront war, Germany invaded France by going through neutral Belgium. | 21 | |
1418214265 | Why did America enter the war? | Zimmerman Telegram, similarities with Allies, German's use of submarines | 22 | |
1418214266 | During WW1 the Ottoman Empire destroyed what group of people? | Armenians | 23 | |
1418214267 | Who killed Archduke Ferdinand? | Gavrilo Princip | 24 |
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