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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Archduke Franz Ferdinand | Leader of Austria Hungary who got assassinated |
| Triple Entente | An alliance before the war between Britain, France, and Russia |
| Triple Alliance | An alliance before the war between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy |
| Allies | An alliance during the war between Britain, France, Russia, Italy, and Japan |
| Russian revolution | revolution within russia |
| The Central Powers | An alliance during the war between Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire |
| Basic causes of WWI | Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism (MAIN) |
| Gavrilo Princep | The assassin who shot the Archduke |
| Black Hands | A terrorist nationalistic group of Serbia |
| Battle of Verdun | A pointless battle that caused many deaths even and there was almost no territory that changed. Used up resources |
| Trench foot | A disease that was caused by tons of moisture on the feet for a long period of time. |
| Blank Check | An agreement that said that Austria had unlimited freedom and Germany supported them no matter what8 |
| Trench Warfare | Two opposing sides fighting in trenches |
| Total war | All of a country resources go towards the war |
| Treaty of Versailles | A treaty that made Germany take full blame for the war |
| 14 points | Points Woodrow Wilson made for lasting peace |
| Blank Check | giving someone full trust in whatever they do |
| League of Nations | A league that tried for lasting peace |
| Schleffin Plan | The plan for Germany to put all their military towards trying to take Paris |
| The battle of Marne | Germans are stopped before taking Paris |
| WW1 ends | November 11th, 1918 |
| America Joined | 1917 |
| Dough Boys | what the Europeans called the Americans joining the war |
| Czar Alexander lll | the last good Czar of Russia |
| Hemophillia | thin blood disease that ran through some of the russian blood line |
| Czars | Leaders of russia |
| Nicholas the 2nd | last czar of Russia, abdicated in 1917 |
| M.A.I.N | militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism |
| V.I. Lenin | An advocate for communism and ended up taking power from the provisional government |
| Joseph Stalin | Took power after V.I. Lenin had a brain aneurysm and he is very important because he rapidly industrialized the Soviet Union and turned Russia back into a global power. |
| Bolsheviks | The Soviet Union's big Communist party |
| Mensheviks | The Soviet Union’s small Communist party |
| Schlieffen Plan | Created by the Germans it was created at the start of the war to quickly knock France out of the War and then turn all their attention to Russia |
| No Mans Land | The area between 2 opposing trenches |
| Battle of the Somme | First use of tanks. Used by Britain. |
| Poison gas | what is that |
| Imperialism | a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force. |
| War Guilt | One country must take sole responsibility for the war |
| 14 points | Woodrow Wilison’s suggestion for peace after the war |
| Militarism | The desire of glorification of war.If war is good then why not fight one? |
| The 5 year plan | gov introduced by soviet union to rapidly industrialize |
| Shell shock | mental illness caused by the exploding of artillery shells |
| Zimmerman telegram | a telegram sent from Germany to Mexico asking them to attack the US |
| Totalitarianism | Government control over every aspect of public and private life |
| Lenin | The leader of the Bolsheviks |
| Battle of Tannenberg | After the war stalls out into trench warfare the Germans are able to defeat the Russians and force them back |
| Second Battle of the Marne | Last major German offensive |
| Imperialism | Conquering weaker countries in order to control and use their resources. |
| Central powers | Germany,Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire. |
| Allies | Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Japan, and the US. |
| Propaganda | One sided information designed to persuade, keep up morale, and support for the war. |
| Battle of Gallipoli | an attempt by the allies to strike into Turkey to knock the Ottomans out of the war and supply Russia |
| Self determination | The freedom of a people to decide under what form of government they wish to live |
| Fourteen points | woodrow wilson outlined a plan for lasting peace |
| Armistice | cease fire |
| Rasputin | helped to destabilize Russia by working with the Russian royal family, he convinced the Tsarina that he was a holy healer. |