Key Terms Flashcards
What does “Blank Check” mean?
Support for Germany going to war with Austria Hungry
What does MANIA mean
Acronym for causes of the war
What was the “spark” that started WWl?
The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand
What was the Schlieffen Plan?
Prior to WWl, in case of an outbreak in war, Germany planned to invade Russia and France first
What was the Western front? Who invaded who?
One of the main theatre’s of war (where war was fully taking place). Germany invaded Luxembourg and Belgium
What was the Stalemate?
A period in WWl where neither the Allies nor the central powers could gain a decisive advantage over the other on the Western Front.
What was “no man’s land”?
the narrow, muddy, treeless stretch of land, characterized by numerous shell holes, that separated German and Allied trenches
What was the Eastern Front?
major theatre of combat during World War I that included operations on the main Russian front as well as campaigns in Romania.
What was the Paris Peace Conference? What was its purpose?
an international meeting convened in January 1919 at Versailles just outside Paris. The purpose of the meeting was to establish the terms of the peace after World War.
What was The League of Nations? What year?
The League of Nations, 1920. The League of Nations was an international organization, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, created after the First World War to provide a forum for resolving international disputes.
Who created the 14 points? What was it?
Designed as guidelines for the rebuilding of the postwar world, the points included Wilson’s ideas regarding nations’ conduct of foreign policy, including freedom of the seas and free trade and the concept of national self-determination, with the achievement of this through the dismantling of European empires and the creation of new states
