WW1 Flashcards
(29 cards)
Balkan wars
1912, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Greece attacked Ottoman Empire #2 Bulgaria attacked Serbia and Greece over conquered land from war #1
Franz Ferdinand
Heir to Austria-Hungary throne and was assassinated
Sarajevo
Where Franz was assassinated
Black hand
A Serbian terrorist group orangization
Gavrilo Princip
Assassin of Franz Ferdinand
Schlieffen plan
Plan to prevent Germany from fighting a two front war the western being France in Eastern being Russia
Allied powers
Great Britain, France, Russia, Siberia, USA
Central powers
Austria-hungry, Germany, Ottoman Empire
Militarism
Policy of glorifying military powers and keeping an army prepared for war
Nationalism
Identification with one’s own nation plus support for its interests
Triple alliance
Alliance with Germany, Austria -hungry, and Italy
Triple entente
Great Britain formed alliance with Russia and France to ensure they wouldn’t fight again
No man’s land
Land in the between the trenches, mines that are designed to slow you down, leg blown off not death
Casualty
Total number of soldiers who are killed, wounded, missing, and taken prisoner of war
New weapons
Machine guns, poison gas, tanks, aircraft, submarines
Unrestricted submarine warfare
German policy that German submarines would sink any boat/ship in the waters around Great Britain
Total war
Where countries devote all of the resources to the war effort
Rationing
People can only buy certain amounts of products/gas/food/rubber/metals
Propaganda
One sided information designed to convince
Self determination
To allow people for themselves determine what type of government they want to live under
League of nations
General association of nations whose purpose is to keep peace
Excluded Russia and Germany
Zimmerman note
Said that Germany would help Mexico “Reconquer “the land it lost to the US if Mexico would join Germany side in World War I
Lusitania
British passengership that carried amnesions for the allied war effort – made Americans mad because it killed 128 Americans when it sank
14 points
USA president Wilson’s plan for peace