AP World History Chapter 28 Terms Flashcards

153677974	sick man of Europe	another name for the Ottoman Empire-- it had weakened economically, technologically, and militarily.	0
153677975	Franz Ferdinand	Archduke of Austria Hungary who was assassinated at Sarajevo by a Serbian terrorist group called the Black Hand; his death was a main cause of World War I	1
153677976	Entangling Alliances	1 of the causes of WWI: Triple Alliance-Germany, Austria, Italy; Triple Entente: France, England, Russia	2
153677977	Western Front	A line of trenches and fortifications in World War I that stretched without a break from Switzerland to the North Sea. Scene of most of the fighting between Germany, on the one hand, and France and Britain, on the other.	3
153677978	Machine gun	introduced in WWI and fires bullets rapidly	4
153677979	Battle of Jutland	off the coast of Denmark, the two fleets lost roughly equal numbers of ships, and the Germans escaped back to their harbors.	5
153677980	Women during World War I	filled jobs vacated by soldiers, like streetcar drivers, mail carriers, police officers, bureaucrats, doctors, nurses, mechanics, and ambulance drivers, some even in military.	6
153677981	Wartime food rationing	especially strict in Germany with disappearance of flour and the "turnip winter".	7
153677982	Ottoman Turks	signed secret alliance with Germany, wanted to get land from Russia.	8
153677983	Caucasus campaigns	expelled the Armenians from homelands in eastern Anatolia. closed Dardanelles strait.	9
153677984	Zionism	movement of Jews wanting to return to homelands in Palestine, led by Theodore Herzl. said that Jewish homeland should be taken out of Ottoman empire and protected by British.	10