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People like German Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck were predicting war rather than

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Peace

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Signed alliances with one another

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Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Britain, France and Russia

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The first of the alliances had its origins with

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Bismarck

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Bismarck signed treaties with Italy and Austria-Hungary in 1882 formed

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The Triple Alliance

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War broke out in 1914 Germany and Austria fought together they were known as

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Central Powers

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Took shape in 1893 when France and Russia formed an alliance

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Triple Entente

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In 1904 Britain signed an entente with _______-which is a non-binding to follow common politics

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France

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Helped spur the international atmosphere

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Economic competitions

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Was the nest of the Great powers and was growing into an economic and military powerhouse. Britain felt threatened by its rapid economic growth

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Germany

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In 1905 and in 191 competition for colonies brought France and Germany to the

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Brink of War

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Glorification of the military

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Militarization

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Caused added aggression and tension in Europe. The tensions were high between France and Germany

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Nationalism

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Russia sponsored a powerful form of nationalism called

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Pan-Slavism

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Proud young nation that as dreaming of creating its own south slav state

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Serbia

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Was under the rule of Austria Hungary, but still was the home to many Serbs and other Slavs

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Bosnia

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Announced that he would visit Bosnia many Serbian Nationalists became angry

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Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria

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Seized the chance and fired twice into the car. Killed the archduke and his wife

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Gavrilo Princip

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Was horrified at the assassination and basically said that he would take a stand against Serbia and whatever Austria decided to do they would have the German support

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Kaiser William II

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Final set of demands

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Ultimatum

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Prepare its military forces for war

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Mobilize

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Is a policy of supporting neither side of war

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Neutrality

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Germany had a military policy that was being developed for years by

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General Alfred Von Schlieffen

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Was designed to avoid the problem of Germany having a war that hit them on two fronts. They would first attack France because Russia had a lumbering army and would be slow to mobilize

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Schlieffen Plan

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It was the largest conflict in history up until that time

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World War I or “The Great War”

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In the World War I there was 
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_french 
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_british 
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_russians 
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_german
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8.5 million french
9 million british
12 million Russians
11 million German

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A deadlock in which neither side is able to defeat the other

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Stalemate

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Moved down waves of soldiers

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Rapid Fire Machine Gun

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Shrapnel (flying pieces of the bomb or things it would hit) would kill or wound soldiers

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Long Range Artillery

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Germany was the first to use a new weapon. The gas blinded, choked, or burned its victims

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Poison gas

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Introduced the first armored tank in 1917

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Britain

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Has mounted machine guns and were created to move across no mans land-the area between the two war fronts, but they failed to break the stalemate

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Tanks

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Pilots were known as this

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Aces

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Pilots type of fighting was called

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Dogfight

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Were large gas filled ballons were used to bomb the English coast

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Zeppelin

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German submarines were called. They did extensive damage to the allied side, sinking merchant ships carrying vital supplies to Britain

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U-boats

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Groups of merchant ships protected by warships

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Convoy

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Turkish troops trapped the allies on the beaches of the Gallipoli peninsula

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Battle of Gallipoli

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Turkey was fighting ______in the Caucasus mountains on turkey’s northern border

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Russian

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On the fronts and shortages at home sapped morale

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Casualties

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As the struggle wore on, nations realized that a modern, mechanized war required the channelling of a motions entire resources into the ear effort called it

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Total war

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The draft-which required all young men to be ready for military or other service

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Conscription

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Raise taxes and borrowed huge amounts of money to pay for the cost of war. They rationed food and other products (boots to gasoline)

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Government

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Is the spreading of ideas to promote or to damage an opposing cause

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Propaganda

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Which are horrible acts committed against innocent people

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Atrocities

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Authorized his ambassador to propose that Germany would help Mexico reconquer the lost territory in New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona in return for Mexican support against the U.S.

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Zimmermann note

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A list of his terms for resolving this and future wars

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Fourteen points

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The right for people to choose their own form of government

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Self-determination

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Is the spread of a disease across a large areas (in this case the whole world)

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Pandemic

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Payments for war change

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Reparations

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People who wanted to make extreme changes, dreamed of building a new social order from the chaos

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Political radicals

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Wanted to build a postwar Britain “fit for heroes”

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British prime minister David Lloyd George

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Wanted to weaken German so they could never again threaten France

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French Leader George Clemenceau

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System in which a group of nations acts as one to preserve the peace for all

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Collective security

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Stretched from Eastern Europe east to the Pacific Ocean

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Huge Russian Empire

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Controlled the government and the economy

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Landowning nobles, priests and an autocratic tsar

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Set up after the revolution had no real power

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Duma

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Tired to ignite revolution among the proletariat

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Marxists

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The growing class of factory and railroad workers

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Proletariat

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The tsarina came to believe that _________ had miraculous powers after he helped her son, who suffered form for hemophilia a disorder in which an injury can result in uncontrollable bleeding

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Rasputin

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Influences over Alexandra had reached new heights and weakened confidence in the government

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Rasputin

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Disasters on the battlefield combined with ___________ shortages on the home front brought the monarch to collapse

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Food and fuel

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Leader of the Bolsheviks. Was born in 1870 to a middle class family, he was a brilliant revolutionary- he read the works of Karl Marx and participated in student demonstrations

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Vladimir Lenin

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Majority

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Bolsheviks

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Brought the Bolsheviks to power

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Revolution

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Armed factory workers-joining mutinous sailors from the russian fleet in attacking the provisional government

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Red Guards

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Symbolic union between workers and peasants

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New flag of hammer and sickle

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The Bolsheviks would be renamed

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Communists

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the policy of extending the rule or authority of an empire or nation over foreign countries, or of acquiring and holding colonies and dependencies

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Imperialism

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a formal agreement or treaty between two or more nations to cooperate for specific purposes

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Alliance

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is opposed to war or to violence of any kind

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Pacifist

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a member of a nomadic and warlike Asian people who devastated or controlled large parts of eastern and central Europe and who exercised their greatest power under Attila in the 5th century a.d.

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Huns

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combat in which each side occupies a system of protective trenches

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Trench WarFare

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an area between opposing armies, over which no control has been established

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No Man’s Island

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a temporary suspension of hostilities by agreement of the warring parties; truce

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Armistice

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the policy or doctrine of isolating one’s country from the affairs of other nations by declining to enter into alliances, foreign economic commitments, international agreements, etc

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Isolationism

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