Chapter 33 Flashcards
Triple alliance
Central powers
Self determinism
Promoted by Wilson and thought to be the key to peace
Triple entente
Allies
Schlieffen plan
Plan to knock out France
Total war
Even societies are involved in the war effort
Western Front
Western Europe where allies took hold mostly. Long trenches
Trench warfare
Fighting between opposite trenches
Stalemate
Time of little to no advance by either side
No mans land
Dangerous area between the trenches
Home front
The area ruled by military leaders to protect and control to citizens
Mustard gas
Chemical warfare. Invented by Germans to burn and kill enemies
V. I. Lenin
Revolutionary Marxist
Overthrew the gov. To take over
Bolsheviks
Radical wing of the Russian social Democratic Party
Petrograd
The soviet group taken by the Bolsheviks
Soviets
Revolutionary councils formed by socialists
Peace land and bread
Form of propaganda used by the Russian gov.
Treaty of Brest- Litovsk
Allowed Russia to leave the war
Influenza pandemic
A result from the poor conditions after the war
Fourteen points
Served as the basis for the armistice
Woodrow Wilson
US president during ww1
Mustafa Kemal
Ataturk. Made the Turkish gov. Support industry and business
League of Nations
First permanent international security. But it failed
Mandate system
Paris peacemakers attempt to unify Europe
Assassination of the archduke
1914
German sub sinks the Lusitania
1915
Japan makes 21 demands on China
1915
Gallipoli campaign
1915
US declares war on Germany
1917
Bolshevik Revolution
1917
Paris Peace Conference
Issued multiple treaties against to countries who lost the war
Ataturk proclaims republic of turkey
1923
