World War I (AKA The Great War) Flashcards

World War One: People, Places, Battles, etc

61545950	Triple Alliance	The alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy (didn't last)	0
61545951	Otto von Bismarck	German, set up the Triple Alliance, had pact with Russia	1
61545952	William II	German, ignored Russia and Triple Alliance,	2
61545953	Schlieffen Plan	German plan to make a swift attack on France through Belgium	3
61545954	Belgium	Tried to remain neutral, had a relationship with Britain	4
61545955	Triple Entente	Friendly agreements between Britain, France, and Russia (called the Allies), Japan and Italy joined in as well	5
61545956	Ottoman Empire	"sick man of Europe", Greece won independence (1829), Slavic areas in the north gaining independence, part of the Central Powers	6
61545957	Archduke Franz Ferdinand	Austria-Hungary, visited Sarajevo, Bosnia in 1914 and was shot and killed	7
61545958	Gavrilo Princip	A 19 year-old Serbian nationalist who shot Archduke and his wife	8
61545959	Central Powers	The alliance between German, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire	9
61545960	United States	Declared neutrality (isolationism), joined Allies when German sunk The Lusitania and the Zimmerman telegram was intercepted	10
61545961	Isolationism	The policy were a country is neutral during a war and focuses on its own internal affairs.	11
61545962	New Technology	Submarines	12
61545963	The Lusitania	A British passenger liner sunk by a German submarine in 1915. Killed over 100 Americans.	13
61545964	The Zimmerman telegram	A secret message sent between German diplomats suggesting that Mexico might want to join forces with Germany and in return regain lands lost to the US	14
61545965	Women Suffrage Movement	Women took the roles of men at war. This revved up the movement and became the basis for a successful push by women in Britain and the US to gain the right to vote.	15
61545966	Treaty of Versailles	Brought the end of WWI, France and Britain wanted to punish Germany (war reparations, release territory, and downsize military), divided Austria-Hungary, the treaty weakened Germany's economy and created resentment among the Germans.	16
61545967	United States President Wilson	Created the Fourteen Points, more focused on establishing future peach and a workable balance of power, 14th point was the	17