history: chpt. 16 test Flashcards
The process of assembling troops and supplies for war
Mobilization
A military draft
Conscription
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy
Triple Alliance
Great Britain, Russia, France
Triple Entente
Heir to Austrian-Hungarian throne
Archduke Francis Ferdinand
Bosnian that assassinated the archduke; he was 19
Gavrilo Princip
Decided to become allies with Austira-Hungary
Emperor William the 2nd
Ordered mobilization of Russian Army
Czar Nicholas the 2nd
Formed the Germans military plan
General Alfred Von Schlieffen
Supported Russia; located in the Balkans
Serbia
Located in the Triple Alliance territory
Bosnia
Explain why Great Britain became involved in the war
They were concerned about maintaining their own world power
List the ethnic groups that were left without nations after the nationalist movements of the 19th century
Isirsh (British rule), Slavic Groups (Balkans), Poles (Russian rule)
Ideas spread to influence public opinion
Propaganda
Fighting from ditches protected by barb wire
Trench Warfare
War based on wearing the other side down by constant attacks and heavy losses
War of attrition
Systems directed by government agencies
Planned economics
Complete mobilization of people and resources
Total war
British officer; urged Arab princes to revolt against their Ottoman overlords
Lawrence of Arabia
Said, “I give your Majesty my word as an officer that not one American will land on the continent.”
Admiral Holtzendorff
U.S. President during WWI
Woodrow Wilson
Where the first battle of the war was fought (in France)
Marne
Where the Germans were defeated (in Germany)
Tannenberg
Where Germany was defeated on September 15
Masurian
Located in France
Verdun
Located southwest of Constantinople
Gallipoli
Explain why WWI required total warfare
Because it affected the lives of all citizens in the warring countries
List some of the occupations opened to women by the war
Chimney sweeps, truck drivers, farm laborers, and factory workers
Council composed of reps from workers and soldiers
Soviets
Ensured regular supplies for the Red Army
War Communism
Czar Nicholas II’s wife
Alexandra
An educated Siberian peasant; claimed to be the “holy man”
Grigori Rasputin
Headed the provisional government
Alexander Kerensky
Small faction of a Marxist party
Bolsheviks
Head of the Bolsheviks
V. I. Lenin
Red Army commissar of war; reinstated the draft
Leon Trotsky