World War I Terms Flashcards by Erika S

German support for Moroccan indep.; French gov’t. rules over in the end.

Moroccan Crisis

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French troops near Moroccan capital; Panther boat; Germany is an idiot

Agadir Crisis

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MANIA; need for strong armed forces

Militarism

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be the greatest Navy ever; beat everyone else

German Naval Laws

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British and German boats, strength competition

Anglo-German Naval Race

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German boats with guns, water, cannons, dread

Dreadnought

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German strategy; go for France by blazing through neutral Netherlands and Belgium.

Schlieffen Plan

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offensive into Alsace-Lorraine; retake

Plan XVII

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pact between 2+ countries through similar interests (e.g. Russia and Britain)

Alliance

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Great Britain, France, and Russia

Triple Entente

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Austria-Hungary, Germany, and Italy

Triple Alliance

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Black Hand victim; disregard for Greater Serbia

Archduke Ferdinand

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Serbian group that killed Archduke of A-H

Black Hand

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motivation for Greater Serbia; pride in ethnicity

Ethnic-Nationalism

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pride in your land; MANIA

Nationalism

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Austria-Hungary and Serbia fight; Russia, back me up!; srry man; Austria-Hungary wins! :(

Bosnian Crisis

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fight for land in independent nations from Ottoman Empire

Balkan Wars

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German foreign policy; show off German strength

Weltpolitik

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Germany’s only source of $$ and happiness

Alsace-Lorraine

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Predecessor of Balkan League; sick man

Ottoman Empire

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Big guys already dividing even b4 end of WWI; collected chaos in Europe

Sick Man of Europe

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longest battle; bleed France white;

Battle of Verdun

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1st use of tanks; British casualties and lost

Battle of the Somme

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success of allied offensive; 26 k soldiers in one day

Brusilov Offensive

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front lines; cause of stalemate; soldiers stuck

Trench Warfare

fungal infection; gangrene toes; soldiers

Trench foot

trench land; soldiers stuck in this place; no way out; territory between trenches

No man’s land

many jams; shot 400-600 rounds; “say hello to my little friend”

Machine gun

unexpected explosions; burns everywhere; heavy

Flamethrower

choking attack; linger; swimming pool

Chlorine gas

almost odorless; internal & external blisters; hot dog

Mustard gas

1st major gas attack; chlorine gas; tear gas grenade

Battle of Ypres

guns on land

artillery

tank

Landship

1st reallly successful tank deployment; Entente

Battle of Cambrai

german; long-range bomb; blur home and battle fronts; large target

Zeppelin

used a lot of planes; wireless transmission; camera; spying on the enemy

Reconnaissance

early planes; slow; very low

Pusher aircrafts

more innovated planes; faster; faster climb ^

Tractor aircrafts

machine that shot between blades;

Interrupter gear

period where German aircrafts were better

Fokker Scourge

looks at enemy territory; sketches bases and weapons

Observer

air recon; faster; morse code with looong antenna

Wireless Telegraph

long-range German bomber plane; attack France

Gotha

only navy battle b/w Germany and Britain

Battle of Jutland

British breach intl. law; block supplies from Germany; controversial

Hunger Blockade

Germany suffered more; controversial; Italy cheated out of it

Treaty of Versailles

Germany fed up with Britain; Lusitania incident; international waters dangerous; no one’s safe

Unrestricted submarine warfare

royal navy; early sonar system; detect enemy ships

ASDIC

listening device; Britain; before ASDIC; early sonar

Hydrophone

merchant ships guided by military escorts; b/c of unrestricted submarine warfare by Germany

Convoy system

acted as merchant ship; really had guns and weapons

Q-ship

sea trap of nets, mines and searchlights; guarded by aircraft

Dover Barrage

british naval intelligence

Room 40

anti-submarine warfare; exploding near submrine

Depth charge

advanced British pusher airplane

FE2

U.K. volunteer army; young and old men

Kitchner’s Army

British conscription; british 18-41

Military Service Act of 1916

gov’t picked and chose who would go to war

Conscription

British women working in munition factories

Munitionettes

called ppl to join; forced books, posters, and guilted fathers/sons/brothers to join

British War Propaganda Bureau

Brit. Minister of Munitions; let women be in workplace

David Lloyd George

U.S. president and creator of League of Nations

Woodrow Wilson

Wilson’s document for peaceful resolution after WWI; Germany had a misunderstanding w/ this.

The 14 Points

gov’t took over ppls’ lives for the war; Britain; huge gov’t intervention; ppl had no say

Defense of Realm Act

British monitor media and censorship

War Office Press Bureau

part of food rationing; couldn’t afford/buy big loaves of bread

Nine-penny loaf

using less to give more to soldiers

Rationing

British feminist leader for recruitment and suffrage

Emmeline Pankhurst

didn’t actually fight; e.g. code experts, wireless telegraphers, electrician, cook, clerk

Women’s Royal Navy Service

more Brit. women in farm lands, boost food production

Women’s Land Army

Brit. women near front lines; e.g. cooks, telephone clerks, waitresses; “soft” jobs

Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps

more women than men; not a lot would marry

The Surplus Two Million

british husband and wife could marry equally

Law of Property Act

easy to get divorce for husband or wife

Matrimonial Causes Act

meeting of Allied victors to discuss with Central powers what would happen next

Paris Peace Conference

armenians mistreated in A-H; might work with the Russians??

Armenian Genocide

peace treaty b/w Bolshevik in Russia and Central Powers to get out of war; Russians = >:( b/c lost land

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

U.S. pact that said war was bad and not to do it (super useless)

Kellogg-Briand Pact

control and make German debt more reasonable; cycle of financial aid created b/w European countries and U.S.

Dawes Plan

french take over; land is hostage; “Where’s my money?!”; dawes plan; ruhr valley returned to germany

Ruhr Valley

creates the countries within Balkan League

Treaty of Saint Germaine

british to Jewish ppl that they could have land

Balfour Declaration

british had an Arab state under Brit. Mandate

McMahon-Hussein Corresspondence

mistreatment of Germans and Austrian citizens who lived in Britain

Alien Civilian Internment Camps

World War I Terms Flashcards

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