Unit 4: WWI Flashcards
“Peace without victors”
14 pts; self determination; League of Nations
Alliance system
triple alliance, triple entente
Allies
Union, France, Russia, Italy
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary and guy who was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip
Armistice
truce
Attrition
waken enemy to destroy; expend resources
blockade
isolation; prevent access
Bolshevik Revolution
took Russia out of WWI; Bolsheviks take control
Casualty
serious injury
Central Powers
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria
Conscription
draft
Czar Nicholas II
leader of Russia
David Lloyd George
Great Britain- Paris peace conference
Eastern Front
more movement than west; Russia took offensive against Austria and eventually faltered by 1915; failed military by lack of supplies
Fourteen Points
Self determination; league of nations
Gavrilo Princip
assassin of Franz and Serbian Nationalist- Black hand
Georges Clemenceau
France-PPC
Imperialism
one country over another