Ch. 8.1 The Road to World War I

Question 1

conscription

Answer 1

military draft

Question 2

mobilization

Answer 2

process of assembling troops and supplies and making them ready for war. considered act of war

Question 3

(a) ethnic

Answer 3

“Not all ETHNIC groups had become nations.”

Question 4

(a) alter

Answer 4

“Thus they insisted that their plans could not be ALTERED.”

Question 5

(a) anticipate

Answer 5

“The British ambassador to Vienna ANTICIPATED war in 1913:…”

Question 6

(a) behalf

Answer 6

“Austrian leaders wanted to attack Serbia but feared Russian intervention on Serbia’s BEHALF, so they sought the backing of their German allies.”

Question 7

(p) Triple Alliance

Answer 7

formed in 18822. Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy

Question 8

(p) Triple Entente

Answer 8

formed in 1907. France, GB, Russia

Question 9

(p) Archduke Francis Ferdinand

Answer 9

heir to throne of Austria-Hungary. he and his wife assassinated on June 28, 1914 by Black Hand, Serbian terrorist group. leads to start of WWI

Question 10

(p) Gavrilo Princip

Answer 10

19-year-old Bosnian Serb. succeeded in killing archduke and wife

Question 11

(p) Emperor William II

Answer 11

gave “blank check” to Austria-Hungary. could rely on full support of Germany

Question 12

(p) Czar Nicholas II

Answer 12

ordered partial mobilization of Russian army against Austria-Hungary

Question 13

(p) General Alfred von Schlieffen

Answer 13

created Schlieffen Plan. called for two-front war with France and Russia

Question 14

(pl) Serbia

Answer 14

by 1914: determined to create independent Slavic state in Balkans.

Question 15

(pl) Bosnia

Answer 15

part of Austria-Hungary. Black Hand terrorist group want it to be free from A-H and part of Serbian kingdom