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British Plan W

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Blockade German Coast and help defend Belgium

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German Von Schlieffen Plan

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Knock out biggest threat first which was France

Wanted to pass through Belgium

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French Plan 17

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Attack Alsace Lorraine

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Great Britain National Intrest

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  • Maintain Naval Supremecy

- Protect Belgium

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French National Intrest

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Reclaim Alsace Lorraine

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Triple Entante

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France, Russia, Great Britain

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Russian National Intrest

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Aquire warm water ports

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Italian National Intrest

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Acquire Austrian Land and Ottoman Land

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German national interests

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-Challenge British naval supremecy

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Triple Alliance

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German, Italy, Austria-Hungary

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Ottoman Empire interests

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Keep Russia out of Mediterranian

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What did Serbia want to do?

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  • Unite all Serbs into one country

- Annex Bosnia-Herzgovina

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Causes of WWI

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-System of allies
-Black Hand
-Blank Cheque
-Nationalism
-Eastern Question- Sick Man of Europe
(Ottoman Empire)

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Who assassinated ArchDuke Franz Ferdinand?

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Gavrilo Princip

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What did Austria want to do after the assassination?

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Leopold Von berchtold -foreign minister

Wanted to punish Serbia

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Central Powers

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Germany
Austria-Hungary
Bulgaria
Ottoman Empire

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Allied Powers

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France
Great Britain
Russia
USA

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New weapons

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Airplanes, tanks, U boats

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Russian Commander in Cheif and his goal

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Grand Duke Nicholas

- Goal: Invade Germany and tie down German Troops

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German Millitary Leaders

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Paul Von Hindenburg

Erich Ludendorff

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Battle of Tannenberg

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Russia vs Germany

- German victory and turning point of war in the East because it stopped the Russian Advance

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French Millitary Leader

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Gen. Joseph Joffre

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British General

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John French

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First Battle of the Marne

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Results:

  1. Turning Point of war in the west
  2. Trench Warfare begins
  3. Ends German advance into France
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German Strategy

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  1. Break Blockade w/ U-Boats

2. Admiral Alfred Von Tirpitz

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Battl of Neuve-Chapelle

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British victory

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Gallipoli

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Winston Churchill -British Commander
Mustafa Kemal - Ottoman General
Goals of the mission:
1.Capture Dardanelles 
2. Aid Russia
COMPLETE FAILURE
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Treaty of London

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Italy signs treaty to join Allied Powers.

-They receive territory for signing treaty

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Battle of Verdun

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French commander- Henri Pertain

French victory

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Battle of the Somme

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Douglas Haig (British commander)
First battle where tanks were used
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Brusilov Offensive

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Last great victory of Russian Imperial Army

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Gen Edmond Allenby

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British commander who lost at the battle of Kutel-Amara

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Battle of Jutland

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  1. only major naval battle

2. Germans defeated and never venture out again

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Sussex pledge

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Germans will not sink any ship w/o warning or providing saftey for passengers

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Ferdinand Foch

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Supreme Allied Commander

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Russian Revolution

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  • First revolution: Tsar steps aside and Alexander Kerensky put in charge of democracy
  • Second Revolution: Provisional govt falls to the Bolsheviks under Lenin
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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

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Russia drops out of war

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Espionage act

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Illegal to spy

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Sedition act

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Anyone who criticizes the war effort could go to jail

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Name of US army in WW1

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American expeditionary force

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Leader of American Army

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John J Pershing

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14 Points

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  1. No secret treaties
  2. Freedom of the seas
  3. Leauge of nations
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Balfour note

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British promise to create Jewish homeland

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Peace offensive

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Last major German offensive

-kaiser abdicates

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Armistice

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November 11, 1918 at 11:00 AM

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Big Four

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Woodrow Wilson- USA
Davis Lloyd George - G.B
Georges Clemenceau - France
Vittono Orlando - Italy

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Treaty of Versailles

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  • Alsace Lorraine returned to France
  • Rhineland becomes demilitarized
  • Germany takes blame for the war and pay reparations and disarm
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New nations

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Yugoslavia, Lativia, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, Finland

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Treaty ratification

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Senators Henry Cabot Lodge defeats treaty and its never ratified

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