WWI Flashcards

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