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
Isolationism
to refrain from political or economic relations with other countries
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Germany’s new emperor; wanted Germany to have world power; increased tensions between European powers
League of Nations
Woodrow Wilson wanted internal cooperation and peace
Lusitania
Ship sunk by Herman submarine; sign of war
Mandate
authoritative command
Militarism
military is only concern of state
Nationalism
Loyalty to ones country
Neutrality
neutral state; non participation in war
No man’s land
land between trenches
Paris Peace Conference
treaty with Germany
rationing
fixed portion
Red Army
Soviet armed forces; Russia
Reparations
Payments to cover war damage
Schlieffen Plan
German war plan to avoid an all out two front war
Self determination
guiding principle of Wilsons 14 pts
Sussex Pledge
Germany promised to limit u boat attacks
Total war
engaging all available resources to support war effort
Treaty of Brest Litovsk
Surrender to Germany
Treaty of Versailles
ended war
Trench warfare
radically changed nature of war, opposing sides face each other in trenches
U boats
German navy submarine
ultimatum
final statement made by a party
unrestricted submarine warfare
sink each other with no warning
VI Lenin
brought Russia out of war and turned it communist, influenced by germans
War guilt clause
Germany take full responsibility of war- reparations
Western Front
controlled by allies; battle of Somme; trench warfare
Woodrow Wilson
14 pt treaty; united states; 28th president
Yugoslavia
established by Serbia and Montenegro; replaced Austria-Hungary
Zimmerman Telegram
German incentive to mexico; they said they will take back land to the us took for them if they join them