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10th history chapt20
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| founded red cross and said "all men are brothers" | Dunant |
| founded nobel peace prize | Nobel |
| how much $ if win nobel peace prize | 1 million |
| american steel manufacturer and donated funds to build the peace palace at the hague | Carnegie |
| 5 parts of nobel peace prize | 1.physics 2.medicine 3.literature 4.chemistry 5.peace |
| where international disputes could be settled through peaceful means and was completed just as WW1 began | Peace Palace at the Hague |
| Three-Emperors League | alliance between germany, austria-hungary, russia |
| germany and austria-hungary pledged mutual aid if russia attacked one of them which started the war | Dual Alliance |
| Triple Alliance | germany, austria-hungary, and italy |
| bismarck made a secret alliance with russia | Reinsurance Treaty |
| Wilhelm II two mistakes | 1st-allow the reinsurance treaty with russia to expire. 2nd-antagonize britain |
| britain and france put aside their diferences and came to a "friendly understanding" | Entente Cordiale |
| Triple Entente | britain, france, russia |
| whos assassination was the spark that set off WWI and when | Ferdinand and june 28, 1914 |
| Schlieffen Plan | germany wanted to attack france first and russia was big and slow and the germans surprised the french by marching through belgium and attacking france from the north |
| some weapons of WWI | machine gun, tanks, airplanes, zeppelins, long range guns, gas, napolone, flamethrower, u-boat |
| Ace | pilot that has shot down at least 5 airplanes |
| called "Red Baron" | Richthofen |
| who was the first to invent aircraft carriers | British |
| life expectantcy for a aviator | 3 weeks |
| germans warned people not to get on this and a german submarine sank it | Lusitania |
| 1 sea battle where there was cross Ts and british won | Battle of Jutlin |
| germans tried to overtake the french but the french pushed them back | Battle of Verdan |
| England attacked the germans and the germans pushed them back and also where tanks were 1st seen | Battle of Somme |
| 2 land battles | Battle of Verdan and Somme |
| Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | russia gave up hostility and land |
| president during WWI | Wilson |
| leader of the american expidionary force that defeated the germand and is also called "Black Jack" | Pershing |
| a christian that believed it was wrong to go to war but went and got the congressional medal of honor | York |
| armistice | a temporary ceaser of fighting |
| Central Powers | germany and austria-hungary |
| Allies | russia, serbia, france |
| put reflectors on plane | Garose |
| someone that believes it is wrong for a christian to fight in war | conscientious objector |
| commander in chief of the allies | Foch |
| when did the war end | november 11, 1918 |
| who lost more troops and how much | central powers and 37 mil. while allies lost only 22 mil. |
| when did U.S. join war | July 1914 |