WWI Flashcards
The idea to join the Slavic states
Pan-slavism
Who was the prime minister of France?
Georges Clemenceau
Who killed France duke Ferdinand?
Gavrilo Princip
When did germany declared war on Russia?
August 1 1914
Germany full support was called what?
A blank check
What supposed to prevent a two front war?
Schlieffen Plan
The land trenches was known as what?
No mans land
Two types of gas use?
Mustard and chlorine
What battle wanted to control the water routes between the Mediterranean and Black Sea
Battle of Gallipoli
When did the Lusitania sink?
May 7 1915
What did Rasputin “treat” in the son?
Hemophilia
What did Nicholas II promise to make but then disregarded it?
Duma
Lenin’s first name
Vladimir
What were first used for investigation in WWI?
Planes
What battle that was mostly based on attrition?
Verdun
When was the treaty of Brest-Litvosk
May 3 1918
Where were the white from?
Siberia
What did the Russian revolution promise to do to the peasants?
Redistribute land
Who ordered the killing of Leon Trotsky?
Joseph Stalin
When was the armistice signed?
November 11 1918
Who was the first president in Germany and was social democratic leader
Friedrich Ebert
Which point of the 14 points were the only one that was passed?
The League of Nations
The war guilt clause was which number?
231
Italy man in the peace conference
Vittorio Orlando
Great Britain was known for their what?
Navy
United Slavic nation
Yugoslavia
Who had the nickname or tiger?
Georges clemenceau
What lands did Germany have to give up?
Alsace and Lorraine
When was the arch duke killed?
June 28 1913
Who was nicknamed the powder keg
The Balkans
GB prime minister?
David Lloyd
What battle did the British defeat the Germans with heavy artillery
Somme
Battle of passchendaele
3rd battle of Ypres
What happened November 6 1917
The Bolsheviks seized the winter palace
Which battle did the German general tell the kaiser that the war cannot go on
The battle of the Marne
What were used in the war, were difficult to move, and have a range of 25-30 meters
Flame throwers
What does MAIN stand for?
Militarism- mass armies scared other countries
Alliances - Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance
Imperialism - expanding countries powers
Nationalism - Balkans wasted their own nationalistic states.
The German expansion of what led to WWI
Uboats
When did Austria declare on Serbia
July 28 1914
When did Germany declare war on Russia
August 1 1914
When did France declare war on Germany
August 3 1914
What was militarism
A policy of glorifying military power
Always prepared for war
Who was the head of the new provisional government?
Alexander kerensky
What region in Europe was the center of many nationalistic revolutions
The Balkans
What’s was rasputins first name?
Grigory
Who’s death started the war
Francis ferdinand
Who declare war first ?
Austria Hungary
German leader who gave the Austrian Hungarians full support
Emperor Willian II
Who declared war on Russia?
Germany
What was special about the eastern front?
It was marked by mobility
Which war was fought on the Turkish Peninsula to get turkey out of the war?
Gallipoli
Who was the last czar or Russia?
Nicholas II of the Romanov family
The Bolsheviks were known for their what?
Violent revolutions
Petrograd soviets
Victims of bread rioting
When was the treaty of Brest litvosk signed?
March 3 1918
What did the treaty of breast litvosk give up?
Ukraine, Finland, the Balkans, and Poland
When was the Russian revolution
March 8 1917
Whites
Couldn’t decided between the czarist regime and liberal and democratic ways
Reds
Communists well disciplined thanks to Leon Trotsky
Why were the red and whites fighting?
Whites
anti communist
red
Communist
Who was the communist leader after Lenin
Stalin
Who were the big four?
Italy, GB, France, USA
What year did the U.S. Enter the war?
1917
Second battle of the Marne
July 18 Germans were stopped by allied powers
Who created a democratic republic in Germany?
Friedrich Ebert
What is an agreement to end fighting?
Armistice
Who and when was the armistice signed?
The new German government November 11, 1918
What did the communists try to do in Germany?
They true to seize Berlin
Who proposed the 14 points
Woodrow Wilson
Where did the big four meet at?
The Paris peace conference
What treaty ended WWI and when was it signed?
The treaty of Versailles
June 28 1919
Money payed by the defeated country
Reparations
What does BRAT stand for?
Blame
Reparations
Armistice
Territories
Self-determination
People get to decide what government they want
14 points
Who was the emperor of Germany
William II
