Question | Answer |
What are the MAIN causes of WWI? | Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism. |
What was the spark that started the war? | Assassination of Francis Ferdinand and his wife by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip. |
How did Industrialization prompt international competition between countries? | Industrial causes the need for more resources to fuel the industrial process and promise a new market for the goods produced as a result. |
What is Militarism? | Militarism - pursuit of military ideas, the power is held by the military. |
What are alliances? | Alliances - aggrements or promises to defend or help a country. |
What is Nationalism? | Having pride in your country while you defend it. |
What is Imperialism? | Trying to build up an empire. |
Self Determination? | The docterine the the people of a given territory or a particular nationality should have the right to determine their own government and political future. |
Mobilization | Preparation of an army for war. |
Total War | A warfare in which all of a nations resources including civilians at home as well as soldiers in the field are mobilized for the war effort. |
Conscription | A military draft. |
Trench War-Fare | The First World War was typified however by its lack of movement, the years of stalemate exemplified on the Western Front from autumn 1914 until spring 1918. |
Life in the trenches. | Death was constant, rat infestation, diseases,
Lice, frogs, beetles, unsanitary, no running water, dead bodies layed in shallow graves, horrible stench, trench cycle, trench foot. |
Sum up what the 14 points were. | the 14 points were created to create unifying peace throughout Europe |