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WWI
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Balkan Peninsula | runs west from Constantinople to the Adriatic |
| The Second Moroccan Crisis, 1911 | emphasized the French and British need for mutual support |
| Germany 1907 | built its firstt dreadnought(battleship Britain launched in 1906) |
| Germany 1908 | passed another navel law that accelerated the challenge to British naval supremacy |
| Italy 1911 | attacked th Ottoman Empire to preempt the French and forced Turkey to cede Libya and the Dodecanese Islands |
| Ottoman Empire 1912 | attacked and beaten by Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia |
| June 28, 1914 | young Serbian nationalist shot and killed Archduke Francis Ferdinand(heir to Austrian thrown) and his wife |
| the assassin was a member of a conspiracy hatched by this political terrorist society | Union or Death, better known as Black Hand |
| Conrad von Hotzendorf (1852-1925) | chief of Austrian general staff; urged an attack on Serbia |
| Count Stefan Tisz (1861-1942) | Austro-Hungarian foreign minister; felt the need for strong action but knew German supportwould be required if Russia opted to protect Serbia |
| WIlliam II and Chancelloer Theobold von Bethmann-Hollweg (1856-1921) | readily promised German support for an attack on Serbia; it's been said that they gave Austria a "blank check" |
| Austria | Germany's only ally when the Triple Entente was growing closer and more powerful |
| Sigmund Freud | "My whole libido goes out to Austria-Hungary" |
| Count Alfred von Schlieffen (1833-1913) | chief of German general staff from 1891 to 1906 |
| Battle of the Marne in September 1914 | British and French were able to stop the German advance on Paris |
| 1916 British | introduced the tank,which eventually proved to be the answer to the machine gun |
| Erich Ludendorff (1865-1937) | junior German officer; under the command of the ederly general, destroyed or captured an entire Russian army at the battle and defeated another at the lakes |
| name the general | Paul von Hindenburg (1847-1934) |
| name the battle | Battle of Tannenberg |
| name the lakes | Masurian Lakes |
| Winston Churchill (1874-1965) | first lord of the British admiralty; proposed to attack the Dardanelles and capture Constantinople |
| General Erich von Falkenhayn (1861-1922) | succeeded Moltke in September 1914; attacked the French stronghold of Verdun |
| Henri Petain (1856-1951) | commander of Verdun; became a national hero; responsible for "They shall not pass" |
| President Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) | warned Germany that a repetition would have grave consequences |
| March 1917 Russia | problem was resolved by a revolution that overthrew tzarist government |
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