World war 1 Flashcards
(27 cards)
Policy of glorifying military power and keeping an army prepared for war
Militarism
Who takes power in 1890 + rapidly builds up an army + navy
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Triple Alliance
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy
Triple Entente
Britain, France, Russia
Mutual distrust and rivalries led to the formation of military alliances (treaties of support)
Alliances
(Policy in which strong nations seek to dominate other countries politically, economically or socially)
Imperialism
A belief that people should be loyal mainly to the people with whom they share a culture and history rather than a king or empire
Nationalism
When were Franz Ferdinand and his wife assassinated
June 28, 1914
who is Franz Ferdinands wife?
Sophia
Serbian nationalist member of the Black Hand
Gavrilo Princip
(a secret society committed to ridding Bosnia of Austria-Hungarian rule)
Black hand
The assassin was?
Gavrilo princip
The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
June 28, 1914
The Austria-Hungary declaration of war against Serbia
July 28, 1914
The German Declaration of War against Russia
August 1, 1914
The German Declaration of War against France
August 3, 1914
- The British Declaration of War against Germany
August 4, 1914
who prepared the schlieffen plan
Alfred Graf von Schlieffen
Battle of the Marne
september 5, 1914 -
Allied Forces make the German troops withdraw 97 km. This signals the failure of the Schlieffen Plan
September 13, 1914
German troops made the Russians retreat in the Battle of Tannenberg.
August 1914
Trench Warfare
The early part of 1915 -
The Battle of Verdun
February 1916
The Battle of the Somme.
July 1916
