Unit 5 Flashcards
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Triple entente
An alliance linking the Russian empire, French third Republic , and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the signing of the Anglos Russian entente on August 31,1907
Triple alliance
Sects agreement between Germany, Austria-Hungary , and Italy formed in May 1883 and renewed periodically until ww1
Sarajevo crisis
A series of diplomatic maneuvering led to an ultimatum from Austria Hungary to the kingdom of Serbia & ultimately to war
Central powers
Germany & its allies (Austria Hungary , Bulgaria,Ottoman Empire ) in ww1
Allies
Victorious , allied nations of ww1 which included Britain,France. Italy,Russia and the U.S.
Schlieffen plan
Was a 1904 German general staff thought experiment which later became a demployment plan and set of recommendations for German commanders to implement using their own initiative
Trench warfare
A type of combat n which opposing troops fight from trenches facing each other
Battle of Verdon
Fought from February -December during ww1 on the western front between the German and french armies on hills north of verdin sux meuse in ne france
Battle of the Somme
Aka Somme offensive Battle of ww1 fought by armies of the British and french empires against German empire
The RMS Lusitania
A British ocean liner holder of the blue riband and briefly the worlds biggest shop he was launched by the Cunard line in 1906 at time of fierce competition for the North Atlantic trade
Zimmerman telegram
Secret telegram sent by German foreign secretary in it Zimmerman said that in the ever of war with usa Mexico should be asked to enter war as a German ally
Belfour Decleration
A letter from UKs foreign secretary , Balfour to baron Rothschild a leader of the British Jewish community for transmission to the Zionist federation of Great Britain and Ireland
Treaty of Brest litvosk
A peace treaty signed on March 31918 at Brest litvosk between Russia an te central powers headed by German marking Russia’s exit from ww1
Ferdinand Foch
French soldier military theorist and the allied generalissme during ww1
Walter rathenau
A German industrialist politician writer & statesman who serve as foreign minister of Germany during the weimer republic was assassinated on June 24 , 2month after signing trey of rapallo 1922
Wilfred or ven
An English Poet and soldier one of the leading poets of ww1
Decline of the west
Downfall of the occident is a 2volume work by Oswald Spengler the first volume of which was published in summer 1918
Tristan tzar
A Romanian and French avant-garde poet essayist and performance artist also active as a journalist playwright. Literary and art critic
Peace of Paris
Peace between feet Britain and the U.S.A drafted November 30 1782 signed September 3 1783
Fourteen point
A statement given January 8 1918 by Us president Woodrow Wilson declaring the ww1 was being fought for a moral cause and calling for postwar peace in Europe
Treaty of Versailles
One of peace treaties at end of ww1 ended state of war between Germany an allied powers
Russification
Form of cultural assimilation process during which non Russian communities voluntarily or jot give up their cultural and language in favor or Russian one
Vladimir Lenin
Alias Lenin was a Russian communist revolutionary political theorist
Bolsheviks
Member of majority faction of Russian social Democratic Party which was renamed communist party after seizing power in October rev of 1917
