World History ll - Final Exam Flashcards
(85 cards)
What did Otto Von Bismarck believe about the greatest threat to Europe?
He believed France was the greatest threat to Europe
How did Gavrilo Princip spark the war?
By shooting the arch duke
What country originally joined the triple alliance but would later switch sides in the war?
Italy
What was Russia’s the greatest military asset
The big population
Why did Britain join the war (The Great War?)
For the protection of neutral Belgium
Describe imperialism
Bigger countries forcing African assimilation countries to fight with them for more military power
Describe nationalism
One country thinks they are better than another
Define militarism
Countries building up military weapons to intimidate another country
The schlieffen plan
A German plan to take the French out of the war and then take on the slower moving Russians
Triple alliance
Germany Austria-Hungary and Italy
Triple Entente
Britain France and Russia
Trench warfare
Only fought on the Western front
League of Nations
Members invited to the Treaty of Paris
Involved Woodrow Wilson David Lloyd George and Georges Clemenceau
What brought an end to the First World War?
Armistice Paris in 1918
Rationing
Limited the purchase of consumer goods
Gavrilo Princip
Serbian member of the black hand that assassinated Franz Ferdinand
Unrestricted submarine warfear
Kept cargo ships from reaching Great Britain
Propaganda
The campaign used to influence public opinion
14 points
A plan for the postwar world
Zimmerman Note
Promised that Germany would help Mexico regain US territory
Treaty of Breast-Litovsk
Ended the war between Russia and Germany
Lusitania
A British luxury ship sunk by the Germans
War guilt clause
Britain and France wanted to punish Germany and to accept the war guilt clause
NEP
Created by Lenin to establish Russian economy and life