Chapter 25: World War One Flashcards
The Black Hand
A Serbian terrorist organization dedicated to the creation of a pan-Slavic nation
The Causes of World War One
Nationalism (increased competition) Diplomacy(need for power & land) Minority's wanted a national state Labor Strikes sparked near revolution Military growth caused tensions
Gavrilo Princip
The guy who assassinated Archduke Francis Ferdinand
A Bosnian Activist who worked for the Serbian Terrorist group Black Hand
The Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Heir to the Austrian Throne
Was assassinated
Plunged Europe into world war one
The Schlieffen Plan
Germany was to deploy most troops to France for a quick defeat and then send the troops back to Russia to work on fighting them
It was supposed to allow Germany to win the war
Triple Alliance Vs Triple Entente
Triple Alliance: Germany, Austria, Italy
Triple Entente: France, Great Britain, Russia
First Battle of the Marne
The German army was met in France (at the Marne River) by British and French troops that led a counter attack
The Germans fell back but the French troops were unable to take advantage of this
Battle of Verdun
Trench warfare very bloody
German Offensive
The Battle of the Somme
British offensive
Trench warfare very bloody
Lawrence of Arabia
A British officers in the middle east who got Arab princes to revolt against their Ottoman rulers which ultimately destroyed the rest of the Ottoman Empire
The Lusitania
An American liner ship that carried passengers and was shot down by a German torpedo resulting in the deaths of over 100 Americans
Germanys War Raw Materials Board
Allocated strategic raw materials to produce the goods that were needed the most
Allowed for the German War Machine to be effectively supplied
Englands Ministry of Munitions
Britain created a private industry of munition making factories that produced enough munitions for low profit
Paul Von Hindenburg
German Chief of General Staff
Took over German government
Erich Von Ludendorf
German deputy chief of staff
Took over German government with Hindenburg
Georges Clemenceau
Strong French war leader that developed a successful total war functioning France
Irelands Easter Uprising
Members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood and Citizens Army occupied government buildings in Dublin of Easter Sunday
Grigori Rasputin
Siberian peasant whom the tsarina regarded as holy because he was able to help her son
Interfered with government affairs
The Bolshevik Revolution
The soviets over threw the provisional government and tool control of Russia after noticing weakness in the provisional government
Alexander Kerensky
Prime minister of Russian provisional government
V.I. Lenin
Ruler of the Bolshevik movement
April Theses
Violent
Leon Trotsky
Extreme revolutionist
Helped Lenin
Part of the Soviets
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Russia wanted peace so they gave up land (Poland, Ukraine, Finland, and Baltic provinces)
November 11, 1918
The end of the war
Rosa Luxemburg & Karl Liebknecht
Radical Social Democrats who led revolution in Germany
The Free Corp (Der Frei Korps)
volunteers of anti-revolutionaries who fought against attempted radicals movement
The 14 Points
Woodrow Wilson
His reasons he believed justified American involvement in the war struggle
League Of Nations
A league to prevent further war
United nations of back then
The Treaty of Versailles
The peace treaty with Germany that made Germans very angry
Article “231”
Said that Germany had started the war and was therefore responsible for paying the allies back
