final part 4 Flashcards
general association of nations to secure world peace
League of Nations
nationalistic group that wanted to unite Bosnia with Serbia
Black Hand
his assassination was the spark to beginning of WWI
Franz Ferdinand
Austria Hungary, Germany, Ottoman Empire during WWI
central powers
Britain, France, Russian and later the US during WWI
Allies
assassin who murdered Archduke Ferdinand
Gavrillo Princip
President Wilson’s peace plan after WWI
14 points
British liner sunk by Germans (May 1915) major impact on US entering WWI
Lusitania
barbed-wire, trenches, land mines; wasteland
“no man’s land”
palace where peace treaty signed to end WWI
Versailles
1800s- various groups wanted political unity
nationalism
glorify military and arms
militarism
rivaled Great Britain in naval supremacy in early 1900s
Germany
Great Britain’s location and to get involved on continent
“splendid isolation”
show of Germany’s support to Austria-Hungary
blank check
referred to a country at war
belligerent
drafting soldiers, factories converted, women working
total war
brutal acts against civilization
atrocities
extreme radicals, overthrew propositional government in Russia
Bolsheviks
leader of the Bolsheviks
Vladimir Lenin
new name of Bolsheviks after Russian revolution
communist party
American forces in WWI
AEF
money payment for war damages
reparations
leader of American forces in WWI
John J. Pershing
