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imperialism   policy of extending a nation's authority by territorial acquisition or by establishing economic and political dominance over other nations  
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Suez Canal   important by the British because it created the shortest route to India  
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Suez Canal   British bought stock in 1875 and established complete control in the 1880's  
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Suez Canal   controlling it was a centerpiece of British foreign policy  
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J.A. Hobson   subscribed to the idea that imperialism was the result of the last stages of capitalism  
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J.A. Hobson   "imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism"  
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jingoism   "We don't want to fight, but if we do, We've got the men, We've got the ships; We've got the money too!"  
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jingoism   the idea of "super patriotism"  
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eastern Question   related to the collapsing Ottoman Empire- about which Bismarck said "it is not worth the healthy bones of a single Pomeranian musketeer"  
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Congress of Berlin   Bismarck considered himself an "honest broker"  
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Congress of Berlin   occurred to review the terms of the Treaty of San Stefano  
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Congress of Berlin   results were a blow to Russia as Austria-Hungary was given Bosnia and Herzegovina to "occupy and administer" although they were supposed to still be under Ottoman rule  
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William II   confused policy toward Britain- one in which he admired them and wanted them for an ally but decided to make trouble for Britain reflected his mixed dislike and jealousy and admiration for the Brits  
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William II   policy led to considerable animosity between Germany and Britain, something Bismarck had sought to avoid  
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entente cordiale   not a formal treaty and had no military provisions, but it settled all outstanding colonial differences between Britain and France  
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entente cordiale   gave France a free hand in Morocco in return for French recognition of British control over Egypt  
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1st Moroccan Crisis   confrontation between Germany and France led to a conference in Algeciras in 1906 at which Austria sided with Germany but Spain, Italy, Russia and the U.S. sided with France and Great Britain  
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1st Moroccan Crisis   the germans received trivial concessions; the result was a closer relationship between Britain and France  
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Kruger telegram   Kaisser William II congratulated the Boers for repulsing a British raid "without having to appeal to friendly powers"; worsened relations between Germany and Britain  
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Alfred von Tirpitz   "architect" of the new Germany navy; openly proclaimed that Germany's naval policy was aimed at Britain  
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Treaty of San Stefano   the Slavic states in the Balkans were freed of Ottoman rule, and Russia obtained territory and a large monetary indemnity; alarmed nearly every power in Europe  
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Russia   Reinsurance Treaty in 1887 was between Germany and what power  
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William II   came to the throne in Germany in 1888; he was twenty-nine, ambitious and impetuous; imperious by temperment and believed in divine right monarchy  
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William II   filled with a sense of Germany's destiny as the leading power of Europe; a nephew of Queen Victoria of England  
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Bismarck   "fired" by William II over a disagreement on "domestic policy"  
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Schlieffen Plan   called for a huge German wheeling force that would cut through Belgium, slice into France and trap French forces; failed  
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First battle of the Marne   crucial French victory which blunted the success of the Schlieffen Plan  
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First battle of the Marne   Germans fall back, France is saved  
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Verdun   Western Front beginning in February of 1916  
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Verdun   for five months the Germans kept a continuous attack which cost them 500,000 dead and the French 600,000  
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Verdun   the real purpose was that the Germans wanted to bleed the French in the "war of attrition"  
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Tannenburg   Eastern Front  
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Tannenburg   Germans drove Russian forces back from East Prussia  
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Tannenburg   Germany took 100,000 prisoners and the Russian commander, Samsonov, committed suicide  
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Caporetto   Italian front in late autumn 1917  
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Caporetto   Germans and Austrians break through sending the Italians into retreat across the Venetian plains  
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Caporetto   300,000 Italians were killed or taken prisoner; eventually with British and French help, the Italians held at the Po River line  
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Battle of the Somme   General Haig attempted to advance on a 15-mile front; British losses are 60,000 on the first day; ends with British losses at 607,000 and German losses between 4000,000 and 5000,000  
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Battle of the Somme   first use of tanks by the British; little if any ground changes hands  
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Lusitania   sinking of vessel in May 1915 caused the deaths of 118 Americans forcing a strong American protest  
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Lusitania   partly responsible for a turn in American public opinion which many felt guaranteed war eventually against Germany  
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unrestricted submarine warfare   German strategy attempted to use submarines to break the British blockade  
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unrestricted submarine warfare   the sinking of ships-even of neutrals-without warning  
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unrestricted submarine warfare   U.S. demanded that the Germans stop this-and they pledged-in the Sussex Pledge to do so; when they violated the Sussez Pledge by resuming this, the U.S. delcared war  
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Black Hand   political terrorist organization- formally known as "Union or Death"; Gavrilo Princip was a member  
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Black Hand   planned the assassination of the Archduke in Sarajevo because they were angry about Austrian annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina  
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Helmuth von Moltke   responsible for the execution of the German plan to march through Belgium  
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Helmuth von Moltke   nephew of Bismark's most effective general; added divisions to the left wing of the swinging door and even weakened the Russian front  
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Erich Ludendorff   junior German officer at the time, under Hindenburg's command  
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Erich Ludendorff   destroyed or captured an entire Russian army at the Battle of Tannenberg and defeated another one at the Masurian Lakes  
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Winston Churchill   first lord of the British admiralty  
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Winston Churchill   proposed to attack the Dardanelles and capture Constantinople; campaign failed miserably costing almost 150,000 causualties  
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Fourteen Points   declared by President Wilson, stated America's war aims- they were idealistic primciples, including self-determination for nationalities; open diplomacy; freedom of the seas; disarmament; and the establishment of the League of Nations  
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mandates   territories legally administered under the auspices of the League of Nations, but in effect were ruled as colonies  
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Kemal Ataturk   "Father of the Turks"  
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Kemal Ataturk   drove the Greeks out of Anatolia and compelled the victorious powers to make a new arrangment sealed by the treaty of Lausanne  
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Kemal Ataturk   abolished the Ottoman sultanate and deposted the last caliph  
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reparations   requirement incorporated into the Versailles Treaty that Germany should pay for the cost of the war  
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Economic Consequences of the Peace   scathing attack on reparations and other economic aspects of the peace; written by John Maynard Keynes, British economist, it argued that the Treaty was immoral and unworkable  
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March Revolution   as a result of bread riots and strikes, the Duma persuaded the Czar to abdicate, then formed a new provisional government  
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March Revolution   the "first" revolution in Russia in 1917  
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Bolsheviks   seized power in a coup in the "second" revolution of 1917  
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Leon Trotsky   Lenin's chief collaborator  
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Leon Trotsky   led the Petrograd Soviet and organized the coup that took place to oust the provisional government  
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April thesis   developed by Lenin when he returned to Russia from Switzerland which called for all political power to go to the soviets; wanted to create an alliance among workers and peasants  
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Alexander Kerensky   began as minister of justice, then became minister of war- finally becoming prime minister of the provisional government in the summer of 1917  
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Alexander Kerensky   led the government which was ousted in the second revolution of 1917  
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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk   harsh treaty that got Russia out of the war  
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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk   between Germany and Russia- cost Russia 33% of its population, 80% of its iron, and 90% of its coal  
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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk   Russia lost Poland, the Baltic states, and the Ukraine-and paid a large war indemnity  
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Reds and Whites   civil war in Russia 1918-1921 was between these two forces  
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