click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
outline 8
World War I
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| yellow journalism | relies on sensationalism and lurid exaggeration to attract readers |
| Archduke Franz Ferdinand | heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire his assassination (1914) sparked WWI. A-H vs. Serbia |
| Schlieffen plan | intended to ensure German victory over a Franco-Russian alliance by holding off Russia with minimal strength and swiftly defeating France by a massive flanking movement through the Low Countries, devised by Alfred, Count von Schlieffen (1833-1913) in 1905 |
| central powers | german and Austro-Hungarian empires, ottoman later. (trench warfare: trench foot) |
| triple entente | Great Britain, France, and Russia. with france&belgium on western front. russia on eastern. |
| total war | a war in which every available weapon is used and the nation's full financial resources are devoted |
| Woodrow Wilson | proposals of peace to reduce military size. proposal was the 14 points. 14th: established league of nations |
| Treaty of Versailles | blame for war, pay damage reduce: Army, Navy, no airforce. The Rhineland area free of German military. no unite with Austria.lost land.some returned to France, Belgium,Denmark, Czechoslovakia and Poland. The L of N took control of colonies |