6531584820 | Entangling Alliances | countries felt very loyal to alliances, so when one country had a conflict with another, it led to allied countries having conflicts with other allied countries | 0 | |
6531584821 | Militarism | glorification of the military, brickmanship | 1 | |
6531584822 | Nationalism | the way to prove that your country was the best was through war, many nation-states also sought independence | 2 | |
6531584823 | Imperialism | imperialized territories enter the war with their european country to make it a full world war, many european countries also sought more expansion | 3 | |
6531584824 | Pan-Slavism | a movement which crystallised in the mid-19th century, aimed at unity of all the Slavic peoples. Its main impact occurred in the Balkans, where non-Slavic empires - the Byzantine Empire, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Venice - had ruled the South Slavs for centuries. | 4 | |
6531584825 | Triple Alliance | Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy | 5 | |
6531584826 | Triple Entente | Britain, France, and Russia | 6 | |
6531584827 | Sarajevo | where Archduke and wife were killed by Serbs | 7 | |
6531584828 | U-Boats | German submarines; a new weapon of the war; convoys were used to stop them | 8 | |
6531584829 | Lusitania | British passenger boat with 128 Americans on board sunk by German U-Boats. It also secretly had ammunition in the hold; one of the reasons the US joins the war | 9 | |
6531584830 | Schlieffen Plan | Germany couldn't fight two front war so they would defeat weaker France first and then mobilize troops to Russia | 10 | |
6531584831 | Central Powers | Austria-Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire | 11 | |
6531584832 | Otto von Bismarck | A master of alliances and counter-alliances. Made an alliance with Austria-Hungary. William ii let him go because he wanted full power of Germany. | 12 | |
6531584833 | Kaiser Wilhelm I | King of Prussia and the first German Emperor | 13 | |
6531584834 | Kaiser Wilhelm II | he last German Emperor and King of Prussia, ruling the German Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia | 14 | |
6531584835 | John "Black Jack" Pershing | general in the United States Army who led the American Expeditionary Forces to victory over Germany in World War I | 15 | |
6531584836 | Sgt. Alvin York | was one of the most decorated soldiers of the United States Army in World War I. | 16 | |
6531584837 | Eddie Rickenbacker | an American fighter ace in World War I and Medal of Honor recipient. With 26 aerial victories, he was America's most successful fighter ace in the war | 17 | |
6531584838 | Franz Ferdinand | Whose assassination in Sarajevo set in motion the events that started WWI Arch Duke and heir to the Austria-Hungarian throne . | 18 | |
6531584839 | Manfred von RIchthoffen | also widely known as the Red Baron, was a German fighter pilot with the Imperial German Army Air Service during the First World War | 19 | |
6531584840 | Erich von Ludendorff | a German general, the victor of the Battle of Liège and the Battle of Tannenberg | 20 | |
6531584841 | William Sims | an admiral in the United States Navy who commanded all United States naval forces operating in Europe | 21 | |
6531584842 | Winston Churchill | a British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | 22 | |
6531584843 | trench warfare | a type of combat in which opposing troops fight from trenches facing each other. | 23 | |
6531584844 | allies | one side of WW1, included Britain, The U.S., France, Italy, and Russia | 24 | |
6531584845 | no mans land | territory between rival Trenches, neither side could use it | 25 | |
6531584846 | machine gun | a defensive weapon that changed war forever. Lead to trench warfare, and made it hard for armies to progress. | 26 | |
6531584847 | dogfights | plane fights | 27 | |
6531584848 | Zimmerman Note | 1917 A telegram Germany Sent to Mexico. Saying if Mexico joins Central Powers then you will regain the lands lost to Americans. | 28 | |
6531584849 | Sussex | Sussex was a cross-English Channel passenger ferry, built in 1896 for the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway | 29 | |
6531584850 | David Lloyd George | was a liberal British statesman who became prime minister during World War I | 30 | |
6531584851 | Woodrow Wilson | he 28th U.S. president, served in office from 1913 to 1921 and led America through World War I; fought for democracy and peace | 31 | |
6531584852 | Georges Clemenceau | statesman and journalist who was a dominant figure in the French Third Republic and a premier | 32 | |
6531584853 | Vittorio Orlando | Italian statesman and prime minister during the concluding years of World War I and head of his country's delegation to the Versailles Peace Conference. | 33 | |
6531584854 | Herbert Hoover | helped "Hooverize" | 34 | |
6531584855 | Eugene V. Debs | arrested because of E/S Act | 35 | |
6531584856 | Marshal Foch | a French general and Marshal of France, Great Britain and Poland, a military theorist and the Allied Supreme Allied Commander during the final year of the First World War | 36 | |
6531584857 | League of Nations | an international organization, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, created after the First World War to provide a forum for resolving international disputes. | 37 | |
6531584858 | Versailles Treaty | Germany and the Allied Nations (including Britain, France, Italy and Russia) signed the Treaty of Versailles, formally ending the war | 38 | |
6531584859 | Espionage and Sedition Acts | E: gave postal officials the authority to ban newspapers and magazines from the mails and threatened individuals convicted of obstructing the draft S: made it a federal offense to use "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the Constitution, the government, the American uniform, or the flag | 39 |
AP History: World War 1 Flashcards
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