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WWI And Imperialism2
The Road To the War To the End of the War
Question | Answer |
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A system of agreements designed by Bismarck to keep peace between Germany, Russia, and Austria-Hungary | Bismarckian Alliance System |
The alliance between Germany, Russia, and Austria-Hungary against radicalism in Europe | Three Emperors' League |
A treaty Bismarck foisted on the Russians and Austria-Hungary making both states claim neutrality if the other was attacked | Russian-German Reinsurance Treaty |
The alliance of Italy, Germany, and Austria | Triple Alliance |
An alliance formed in 1894 that opposed the Triple Alliance | Russian-French Alliance |
The young and impetuous German emperor who dismissed Bismarck in 1890 | William II |
Britain's foreign policy of making no permanent alliances | Splendid Isolation |
French architect of the Entente Cordiale between France and England | Theophile Declasse |
1904 alliance between England and France | Anglo-French Entente |
A belligerent 1905 German diplomatic move that solidified France and Britain's alliance and damaged Germany's reputation | Moroccan Crisis |
A conference organized to settle the Moroccan Crisis | Algeciras Conference |
The union of France, Great Britain, and Russia | Triple Entente |
German admiral responsible for strongly building up the German navy | Alfred von Tirpitz |
The desire to establish an independent nation of Serbia | Serbian Nationalism |
Eastern European wars in 1912 and 1913 that effectively destroyed the Ottoman Empire | Balkan Wars |
Heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, assassinated in Sarajevo in 1914 | Archduke Francis Ferdinand |
Serbian nationalist group responsible for assassinating Ferdinand | The Black Hand |
A telegram stating that Germany would do anything in its power to assist Austria in the wake of Ferdinand's death | The Blank Check |
Austrian efforts to compromise Serbian nationalism during the July Crisis | Austrian ultimatum |
Russian tzar during WWI | Nicholas II |
Germany's plan for an invasion of France that called for a strong right wing. | Schlieffen Plan |
Fighting in nasty, small ditches separated by a "No-Man's Land" | Trench Warfare |
The union of Germany, Austria, and the Ottoman Empire | Central Powers |
The union of Great Britain, France, Russia, and later Italy and the United States | Allies |
The desperate French counterattack that prevented Germany from taking Paris | Battle of the Marne |
An unsuccesful German offensive against a fortress on France's northern border | Battle of Verdun |
Hideously bloody British and French offensive in 1916 | Battle of the Somme |
The two theaters of WWI | Eastern and Western Fronts |
A rousing Germany victory over Russia on the Western front | Battle of Tannenberg |
German general who fought on the Eastern front and later served as a German president in the 20s. | Paul von Hindenburg |
German general who served alongside Hindenburg on the eastern front | Erich Ludendorff |
German submarines | U-Boats |
A luxury liner torpedoed by a German u-boat, an act turning many countries (including the US) against Germany | Lusitania |
Organization responsible for rationing and distributing useful materials to aid the German military | War Raw Materials Board |
Large German blimps. | (LED)Zeppelin |
A bloody and disastrous attempt by the Allies to take Istanbul | Gallipoli Campaign |
Battles occurred in this region, in addition to Europe and Asia | North Africa |
Man responsible for helping to organize Arab Revolts against the Ottoman Empire during WWI | T.E Lawrence |
A German telegram urging Mexico to go to war with the United states | Zimmerman telegram |
Russian parliament | Duma |
Russian prime minister during part of Nicholas II's reign, responsible for proposing many agrarian reforms | Pyotr Stolypin |
Close advisor to Nicholas II, hated by the peasantry | Grigori Rasputin |
Russian revolution that toppled the tsar | February Revolution |
Moderate Marxists, enemies of the Bolsheviks | Menshevik |
Moderate leader of Russia's provisional government following the overthrow of Nicholas II | Alexander Kerensky |
Democratic-trending government that ruled between the February Revolution and the Russian civil War | Provisional Government |
A grassroots group of socialist intellectuals who feuded with the provisional government | Petrograd Soviet |
Radical Russian Marxists, the main branch from which the Mensheviks split | Bolsheviks |
Leader of the Bolsheviks | Vladimir I. Lenin |
Soviet who orchestrated the Petrograd Soviet's takeover of Russia's government | Leon Trotsky |
A military order removing Russian officers from authority and placing power in the hands of elected committees of common soldiers | Army Order No. 1 |
A weak attempt by Conservative forces in the army to oust Kerensky in September of 1917 | Kornilov Affair |
The Bolshevik takeover of Russia's government | November Revolution |
The Communist secret police during the Russian Civil war | Cheka |
The dominant political party in Russia for much of the 20th century | Communist Party |
Conflict between the Bolsheviks (Reds), and the Whites | Russian Civil War |
Intervention of foreign powers on the side of the Whites during the Russian Civil War | Archangel Operation |
Irish uprising brutally put down by the British | Easter Uprising (1916) |
Postwar German government | Weimar Republic |
The Ottomans carried out a massacre of these people in 1915 | Armenians |
Correspondence between a British High Commissioner and the Shariff of Mecca regarding the future of Ottoman territories after WWI. | McMahon-Hussein Correspondence |
A secret agreement between France and England regarding their respective spheres of influence following the fall of the Ottoman Empire | Sykes-Picot Agreement |
British declaration supporting a national home "for the Jewish people" | Balfour Declaration |
An old Ottoman province wanted as a home for Jews but populated by non-Jews | Palestine |
Prominent Zionist and Israel's first President | Chaim Weizmann |
Treaty ending the British mandate over the Transjordan | Treaty of London |
A series of goals articulated by Wilson following WWI | Fourteen Points |
Belief that nations have right to address questions of their own sovereignty | Self-Determination |
Payments made by Germany following WWI | Reparations |
The conference that hammered out the Treaty of Versailles | Paris Peace conference |
Alliance of nation-states proposed at the Paris Peace Conference | League of Nations |
British prime minister and representative at Versailles | David Lloyd George |
French representative at Versailles | Georges Clemenceau |
Italian representative at Versailles | Vittorio Orlando |
American president present at Versailles | Woodrow Wilson |
This article of the Treaty of Versailles placed much of the blame on Germany for starting the war, justifying harsh reparations | Article 231 (War Guilt Clause) |
Orders from the League of Nations | Mandates |
Liberal economist who questioned the wisdom of Versailles in "The Economic Consequences of The Peace" | John Maynard Keynes |