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World War I Flashcards

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Pan-Slavism

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Uniting the Slavic people

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Powder keg of Europe

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Nationalism… A tiny spark will lead to an explosion

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Militarism

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Glorification of the military… Survival of the fittest… Expand navy/army… Gain respect

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Alliances

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Treaties signed to defend one another’s

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Triple entente

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France, Britain, Russia

Becomes Allies + US & Italy

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Triple Alliance

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Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy

Becomes central powers + turkey and Bulgaria -Italy

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Archduke Francis Ferdinand

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Visited & Assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia… Black Hand / Unity or Death vowed to take action… Gavrilo Princep

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Gavrilo Princip

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Conspirator that shot the archduke and his wife

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Ultimatum

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Final set of demands…

Austria sent to Serbia … Serbia partially agreed resulting in Austria declaring was on Serbia

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Kaiser William II

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Gave Austria a “blank check”

Horrified at the assassination of archduke

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Mobilize

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Prepare the military forces for war

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Schlieffen Plan

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Wanted to avoid a two front war… Germany defeated France then moved to Russia … Plan violated

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Neutrality

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Policy of supporting neither side

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Guns of August

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Widely read study of the outbreak of war

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Great War

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Another name for WWI

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Battle of the Marne

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Stalemate, over the top, no man’s land

… British troops reached France… Pushed back german offensive… Destroyed hopes for quick victory…

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Stalemate

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Deadlock in which neither side is able to defeat the other

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Trench Warfare

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Vast system of trenches

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No man’s land

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Between the opposing trench lines

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Verdin

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“They shall not pass”

German trying to overwhelm the French

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Battle of the Somme

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Costly… “Bless French white” .. British wounded/killed

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Zeppelins

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Large gas filled balloons to bomb English

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U boats

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Tremendous damage… Sinking of Lusitania

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Convoys

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Groups of merchant ships protected by warships

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Battle of Tannenberg

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Russian border… Poorly equipped.. Peasants thrown into combat… Russia lost

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Dardanelles

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A vital strait connecting the Black Sea and the Mediterranean

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Battle of Gallipoli

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Used propaganda to get Austrians to fight… Battle over Dardanelles… Keep ports open … Turkey vs allies

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Caporetto

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Austrians & Germans launched offensive against Italy… Central powers stopped from advancing

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Total war

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Channeling of a nations entire resources into a war effort

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Conscription

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The draft

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Propaganda

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Spreading ideas to promote a cause or damage an opposing cause

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Atrocities

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Horrible acts against innocent people

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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

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Ended Russian involvement in WWI …

Lenin came to power

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Lusitania

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US Passenger ship that was hit by a torpedo and sunk

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Zimmerman telegram

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British intercepted message from German foreign minister… Germany would help reconquest lost territory

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Self determination

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Right of people to choose their way of government

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Armistice

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Agreement to end fighting

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Pandemic

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Spread of a disease across a large area

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Reparations

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Payments for war damage

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Big three

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David Lloyd George (British prime minister) George’s Clemenceau (French “the tiger”) Woodrow Wilson (US president

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Collectives security

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System in which a group of nations act as one to preserve the peace

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Mandates

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Territories administered by western powers

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Pacifism

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Opposition to all war

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