Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
AP Euro Unit 8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| militarism | states desired to increase their military capacity in order to defend and pursue their national interests, as opposed to negotiation or diplomacy |
| Triple Alliance (1882-1914) | Otto von Bismarck allied Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy |
| Triple Entente (1907-1914) | in response to Bismarck's creation of the Triple Alliance, Britain, France, and Russia allied together in opposition to Germany |
| Alsace & Lorraine | two territories ceded to Germany after the Franco-Prussian War (1870) that France sought to reoccupy through WWI |
| Franz Ferdinand (1863-1914) | heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne assassinated by a Serbian nationalist group |
| Bosnia | Balkan territory that both Austria-Hungary and Serbia wanted to occupy |
| trench warfare | WWI warfare comprising of military trenches; troops would go "over the top" to shoot, and also, often be shot at |
| chemical warfare | WWI warfare later banned because of how inhumane it was; without the protection of a gas mask, it could blind, choke, and kill those who consumed it |
| submarines | naval warfare introduced by Germans in WWI; able to damage and sink ships from underneath the water |
| total war | all of each participating nation's resources and people on both the warfront and home front were employed in fueling WWI |
| Home Rule Movement | Irish movement for independence from the rest of Britain; was in process prior to WWI but halted once war broke out, leading to further rebellion in 1916 |
| Easter Rebellion (1916) | Irish rebels took to fighting the British on the streets of Dublin, but were subdued by the British; demonstrated how the mass destruction and casualties in WWI created discontent on the home front |
| Armenian Genocide (1915-1916) | Ottoman officials encouraged the slaughter of the Armenian Christian minority |
| Treaty of Versailles (1918) | WWI peace treaty under which Germany accepted fault, the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires were dissolved, and the U.S. emerged as a major world power |
| mandate system | as outlined in the Treaty of Versailles, the winner Triple Entente powers commandeered Germany's colonial landholdings |
| Revolution of 1905 | Russians protested against the conservative tsarist government for liberal reforms; although some were enacted, the revolution was largely unsuccessful |
| Tsar Nicholas II (r. 1894-1914) | tsar who quelled discontent through armed forces and a strict bureaucracy; was forced to abdicate in 1914, marking the end of the Romanov dynasty |
| Duma | Russian legislature that took created and seized control of a new provisional government, forcing Nicholas II to abdicate |
| Provisional Government (1917) | was largely influenced by the Russian middle class, but increasingly had to contend with councils that represented working class interests called Soviets, who were typically socialist |
| Soviets | councils of working-class Russians, typically socialist |
| Bolshevism | radical members of the Russian Marxist Social Democratic Party who aimed to overthrow capitalism in Europe and worldwide |
| Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924) | Bolshevik leader who served as the first leader of the newly formed Soviet Union |
| April Theses (1917) | a pamphlet of ten Bolshevik objectives published in 1917 by Vladimir Lenin |
Created by:
ameyer24saintursula
Popular European History sets