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The Alliance System and the road to WWI Flashcards

1
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Three Emperors Leauge

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Bismark formed in 1873, alliance with 3 of the 5 great powers

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What destroys Three Emperors Leauge

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Russo Turkish war of 1875 destroys it

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Treaty of San Stefano

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Treaty of San Stefano of 1878 freed the Slavic peoples of the Balkans from the Otomans

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Reaction to treat of San stefano

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  • Austrians go nuts and say they took too much
  • British Forced russia to an international conference to meet in Berlin
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Jingoism

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Desire to be in a fight

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result of Congress of Berlin

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All powers got territory off the expense of Ottomans, Russians mad at Germany

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dual alliance

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Germany signs a dual alliance with A-H in 1879, if one would get attacked by russia, other would help

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triple alliance 1882

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Italy asks to join germany and A-H

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Reinsurance treaty

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Germany w russia in 1887, both stay neutral if attacked

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What is the cause of the fall of the Triple Alliance

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Kaiser WIlhelm dies, Fredrick dies and Wilhem II inherits

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Wilhelm II personal issue coping

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Withered arm makes him more aggressive

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What does Wilhelm II do to Bismarks Alliance

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Resfused to resign with russia in 1890

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Russia response to Wilhelm refusing to resign alliance treaty in 1890

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signs treaty with France

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14
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How does Germany Provoke Britian

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Builds large navy

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15
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1900 Admiral Tirpitz risk theory

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If Germany Navy strong enough, Brits wouldnt even try

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1902 Anglo Jap alliance with GB purpose

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To defend brits holding in china against russia

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1904 Entente cordiale with france

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freindly and disputes against colonies were settled; between france and bri

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18
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1st Morocan Crisis, what happened

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Kaiser went to Morocco and speech calling for Morrocan independence from france

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Algerciras Confrence of 1906 result

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1907 Brits sign agreements with Russia and the Triple entente was formed

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What did the Serbs want to do before WWI

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  • Serbs wanted to create a slavic nation
    • need parts of Ottomans and Austria
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21
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Young Turk 1908

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wanted to modernize Ottoman empire

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22
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What made Russians and Serbs mad at Austria

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annexed B-H

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23
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2nd Moroccan Crisis

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  • 1911 france shut down rebellion
  • Kasier sent gunboat panther to protect non existent german people
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1st Balkan war of 1912

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Ottomans defeated by Greece, serbia, montengro bulgaria

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2nd balkan war 1913

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All the other regions ganged up on Bulgaria and took most of their gains from 1st war

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26
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Why is Albania Created

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Austria does not want Serbs to get a port, calls international conference to create serbia

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27
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Assassinaition of Franz Ferdinand

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In Bosnia and Gavrilo Princip trained by Serbs and killed him

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28
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Why does Franz Ferdiand death start WWI

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Austrians tried to punish Serbia but was threatened by Russia and needed approval from Germany

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THe Schlieffen plan

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Germans go through Belgium

30
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Schlieffen plan result

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Britan enters the war to protect Belgium

31
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Commander of the German army during WWI

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was Helmuth von Moltke

32
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What battle saves france in WWI

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Battle of Marne

33
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Russian Generals of WWI

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Samsonov and Rennekampf

34
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Where did General von hinderburg beat the russians

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General von hinderburg was called into destroy the two russian armies at Tannenburg and the Masurian lakes

35
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Who was Hindenburgs right hand man

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Ludendorff

36
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How did Britian try to knock out the turks

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black sea penninsula named Dardanelles was a key subject for them, turned disastrous.

37
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first gas attack in WWI

38
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German war at sea tactic

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  • German U boats try to sink Britian and starve them
    • sank the Lusitania killing 1.2k
39
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worst year of casuties

40
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Falkenhayn german lost job because

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Verdun did not stop France

41
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Falkenhayn replaced by

42
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What did brits do to help France in verdun

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The Brits attack at the Somme river

43
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German naval war - Jutland

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Brits lost more ships but blockcade in tacked

44
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Where did Russians attack in 1916

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Russians General Brusilo attacks Austro Hungry in Ukraine

45
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Relevance of the Brusilo offensive

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  • Relieved pressure on Brits and french
  • almost destroyed the Austro Hungarian Army
  • Demoralized the Russians
46
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What strategy did German employ to starve britian out

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Germans announce they will resume submarine warfare, bringing US into the war, this is a gamble

47
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Who replaces Tsar Nicholas in 1917

48
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French army in 1917

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French army Mutiny in the Aisne River; Germans never found out about this though.

49
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Messines Ridge

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Haigs brought in minors to dig into german trenches and contained 1 million pounds of explosives

50
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Caporetto

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Germans shift to help Austrians knock Italy out of war; they ran out of supplies because they were demolishing

51
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2nd Russian Revolution, how did germany start this

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Bolsheviks sieze power; Germans sent lenin to Petrograd to disrupt provisional govt and it succeeded

52
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Treaty that got Russia out of war/when

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  • Armistice signed with the Germans in December 1917
    • Treaty officially Brest Litovsk signed in march 1918
53
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The Ludendorff offensive plan

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German plan to get to paris first before USA

54
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Who is marshall Fosch

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Marshall fosh is the supreme comander of the allies to cordinate defensive efforts

55
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What stopped the Ludendorff offensive

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Americans at Beallu wood

56
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Who was the leading ace of WWI

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Leading ace Manfred Von Richeofen (red baron)

57
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Leading French Ace

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Rene Fonck 75

58
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Leading Brit ace

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Billy Bishop 72

59
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2 important German aces

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Ernest Udet and Herman Goering

60
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Very first Ace

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Roland Garros

61
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Leading american pilot

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26 kills Eddie Rickenbacker

62
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Volenteer group in WWI combat pilots

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Lafayette Escadrille

63
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Black day of german army

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August 8th when whole units started to surrender

64
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Last American attack in WWI

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Saint Mihiel offensive

65
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When was the end of the ottoman empire

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ENd of WWI

66
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What did Brits get of Ottoman empire

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Iraq and Palestine

67
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What did France get of ottoman empire

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Syria and lebannon

68
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Who forms republic of turkey

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Kemal attuuck

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