European Unit 4 Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
Prince Henry | helped Portugal in the 1400s by providing money to study navaigation, build boats, and take voyages along coast of Africa |
Reasons for European Exlporation | sea route to Asia, find riches, knowledge, build empire, spread Christianity, natural resources |
Italy | dominated European trade with Asia |
Christopher Columbus | watned to discover short cut to Asia from Spain in 1492 but landed in Bahamas |
colonialism | policy by which a nation maintains or extends its control over foreign land and people |
imperialism | establishing political or economical control over other countries by building empires for military and trade advantage. Empire building in Africa and Asia contributed to the outbreak of WW I |
nationalism | strong devotion to national intersts, unity , and independence |
militarism | policy of maintaing a strong military and an aggresive preparedmess for war |
alliances | a union of nations to promote common interests and provide protection against enemies |
central powers ww I (triple alliance) | Germany, Ottoman Empire, Austria, Itay(joined Allies later) |
allies (triple entente) | Britain, France, Russia, Italy (later) |
world war I begins | Archduke Ferdinand of Austria is shot and killed in June 1914 by a man from Serbia |
world war I begins | Austria attacks Serbia. alliances of these two countries joined in |
Events that lead the US to enter the war | money loaned to Allies the us might loose |
Events that lead the US to enter the war | Germany vows to sink all ship in British waters |
Events that lead the US to enter the war | Sinking of the Lusitania British ship with 128 Americans killed |
Events that lead the US to enter the war | Zimmerman Telegram - Us intercepts note from Germany to Mexico asking them to attack US, promises Mexico TX, NM,AZ |
US declares war on Germany | April 6, 1917 |
Russian Revolution | 1917, starvation and poverty lead to overthrow of Czar Nicholas and a civil war |
Results of Russian Revolution | new government(communist)Lenin,Stalin withdrew from WW I in 1918 sign peace treaty with Germany |
End of WW I | Allies defeated Germany in 1918 |
Treaty of Versailles | June 1919 offically ends the war |
Treaty of Versailles | punished Germany, blamed them for the war and they had to pay reparations, no military for Germany, set up democratic nations took land from Germany, League of Nations created |
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