An Assasination Leads To War

Question 0

Archduke Ferdinand of Austria

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Shot by a Serbian nationalist

Question 1

Balkan Peninsula known as

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“The powder keg of Europe” because of

• ethnic rivalries among Balkan people
• leading powers had economic & political interests there.

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Austria-Hungary

• blamed
• declared war on
• expected

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• Serbia
• Serbia
• A short war

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Alliance system

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Pulled one nation after another into war

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Germany’s schlieffen plan:

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Hold Russia,defeat France,then Russia

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By spring of 1915, 2 systems of

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Parallel trenches crossed France (western front)

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“No man’s land”

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Barren expanse of mud between opposing trenches.

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Armies fought to gain

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Only yards of ground in bloody trench warfare.

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British blockade

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Ships stopped war supplies,food, and fertilizer from reaching Germany.

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Resulted in German

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Famine and starvation

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U-boat

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German submarine

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Germany set up

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U-boat counter blockade of Britain

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U-boat sank British liner

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Lusitania;128 Americans among the dead

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U.S public opinion turned

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Against Germany

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President Wilson protested

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But Germany continued to sink ships