Chapter 26 Flashcards
Triple entente
Russia, France, UK with support of help from Japan and Portugal
Triple alliance
Germany, A-H, Italy
Ottoman Empire and Austrian
Collapsed after wwi bc of growth of nationalism
Old and large empires
Big threat to Germany
Balkan powder keg
Balkans before wwi
Lots of territorial claims from various countries
Growing nationalism - formed independent countries
Serbia during wwi
Part of it was taken over by a-h
Killed franz and wife
Turned to Russia
Wwi started
Central (Germany a-h ottoman Bulgaria Romania) vs allied (France Britain Russia)
Bb bb
Schlieffen plan
Failed German plan cli gift lightning attack through Belgium and quick defeat of France before turning on Russia
Trench warfare
Fighting consists largely in trenches where troops are protected by the enemy
New technologies
Poison gas zeppelin u boats
All quiet on the western front
Erica Remarque – describes German soldiers extreme stress during wwi
Why did us enter wwi
Submarine warfare - unauthorized German ships, Lusitania,
Bolsheviks
Led by Lenin
Related to tensions of wwi
Socialists
Violent rev to destroy capitalism, rev determined by human leadership rather than historic law
Lenins April theses
Called for soviet state power
Seized power from prov gov
Distributed land among peasants
Wilson’s 14 points
Peace proposal 1918
National self determination
Ppl should be able to live free from outside interference in nations with clearly defined borders