Unit 7: World War One Flashcards
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World War One has been called
“The Great War”, “the war to end all wars”, “the first total war”, and the war “to make the world safe for democracy”
WWI was the result of
militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism
The Balkan Peninsula
“the powder keg of Europe”
the spark that ignited the war
June 28, 1914 assassination of the Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Serbian Gavrilo Principe (of the Black Hand) in Sarajevo, Bosnia
Triple Alliance
Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy
Triple Entente
Britain, France, and Russia
What happened when Germany offered Austria-Hungary a blank check & Russia mobilized to defend the Slavs?
Germany declared war on Russia and France & invaded neutral Belgium; Britain responded and declared war on Germany
Allied Powers
Britain, France, Russia, Serbia, Belgium, Italy, Japan, Greece, Romania, Portugal, & US
Central Powers
Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, & Bulgaria
Anglo-German Alliance
During WWI, the British blockaded Germany to prevent them from getting supplies to fight the war and 750,000 Germans starved. The Germans counter-blockaded Britain, torpedoed British ships and 75,000 Britons drowned. Upon the death of Queen Victoria, her grandsons George V and Wilhelm II signed Anglo-German Alliance
Saxe-Coburg-Gothe
British royal family (with German roots since the Hanover dynasty) who changed their surname from Saxe-Courge-Goth to Windsor in response to anti-German sentiment
the Schlieffen Plan
in the summer of 1914, the Germans set out to defeat France quickly and then defeat Russia and win the war
the Battle of Tannenberg
the German Army nearly destroyed the Russian Army
the German Army nearly destroyed the Russian Army
the French Army stopped the Germany Army on the Western Front
trench warfare
unlike the Eastern Front, the British, French, and Belgians fought trench warfare
new military technologies
tanks, machine guns, artillery, zeppelins (blimps), U-boats (submarines), and airplanes
the Second Battle of Ypres
the Germans used poison gas
the Battle of Gallipoli
when the Allies tried to take control of Turkey, the ANZACs were sacrificed in a suicide mission
the Battle of Verdun
the French fought the Germans to stalemate within a space of 10 miles
the Battle of the Somme
one million soldiers died; morale was waning and nationalists within the empires rose up
the Easter Uprising
Irish republicans staged an unsuccessful independence movement
the Armenian Genocide
on the Eastern Front many Armenians supported Russia rather than the Ottoman Empire, and the Turks responded by killing one million Armenians
Arthur Zimmerman Telegram
German Foreign Minister who attempted to form an alliance with Mexico
John J. Pershing
General who led the American Expeditionary Force