AP History: World War 1 Flashcards

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