World War One Flashcards
(24 cards)
Queen Victoria
Ruled: 1837-1901
Sent to balmoral castle
Heavy child
Anglophilia
People wanted to be like the British but they hated them at the same time
Balmoral castle
In Scotland
Where Victoria was sent
Eventually her summer home
Cult of domestication
Child most important things
Happy home
She married her children into other royal families
Tribalism
World made up with indigenous groups
Kaiser
German king
Berlin
Capital of Germany
The Prussian Way
Philosophy that stressed discipline, cleanliness, stoicism (hide emotions), physical perfection, superiority of Germans
Wissenzweig
Order, discipline, cleanliness and endurance
Wilhelm II
Queen Victorias grandson and kaiser
HAS WITHERED ARM
Hohenzollerns
The royal family of Germany
Emperor Franz Josef
The sphinx
Franz Ferdinand
Franz Josef’s son
Vienna
Capital of Austria
Nicholas II
Descended from the Romanov dynasty
Autocracy
Total power
St. Petersburg
Capital of Russia in 1914
Rasputin
Could read peoples minds
Healed Nicolas II’s son with hemophilia
Woodrow Wilson
Pacifist forced to get involved in World War One
Supporter of WCTU and God’s country theory
Former Princeton uni president
W.C.T.U (womens Christian temperance union) 1870
Founded by Carey nation They wanted: Women to be able to vote Alcohol banned End of child labor No more military
God’s country theory
From the WCTU
Belief that America is God’s country
Woodrow cont.
Was the state of NJ governor
Democrat
President in 1913
France in 1912
Controlled much of Africa, Vietnam, Middle East and Caribbean
Competitive with Britain
George Clemencau
Leader of France In 1912
Hates German bc of affair that was ruined with German woman
