Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
22 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
- 3rd side (hint)
|
Triple Alliance
|
Germany
Austria-Hungary Italy |
Nations united by common imperialistic goals.
|
|
|
Triple Entente
|
Britain
France Russia |
Nations united by a common fear of Germany.
|
|
|
Central Powers
|
Germany
Austria-Hungary Bulgaria Turkey |
|
|
|
Allied Powers
|
Britain
France Russia Italy (1915) United States (1917) |
|
|
|
unrestricted submarine warfare
|
Germany fired on all ships in a designated war zone around Britain.
|
Instead of just using a blockade.
|
|
|
Lusitania
|
May, 1915
British liner sunk without warning off the coast of Ireland by Germans. |
1,198 perished
|
|
|
convoy system
|
US ships traveled to Europe with supplies. Naval destroyers with antisubmarine guns escorted them.
|
With such protection, shipping losses were cut.
|
|
|
War Industries Board
|
Organized the industrial production needed. Factories transformed.
|
|
|
|
War Labor Policies Board
|
To keep costs & wages under control & to regulate laborers.
|
Stepped in to settle disputes between labor & management.
|
|
|
American Expeditionary Force
|
American troops who joined the European fighting force starting Fall of 1917.
|
|
|
|
doughboys
|
Nickname for American troops
|
Training time was 3 months.
|
|
|
John Pershing
|
General who commanded AEF starting Spring 1918.
|
|
|
|
Ferdinand Foch
|
Frenchman who served as Supreme Allied Commander over General Pershing.
|
|
|
|
Vladimir Lenin
|
Led Communist Revolution to overthrow Czar in 1917.
|
Germans aided his return to Russia & got Russia out of WWI.
|
|
|
Armistice Day
|
Nov. 11, 1918 when Germany signed agreement to stop fighting.
|
Now called Veterans' Day
|
|
|
Fourteen Points
|
Woodrow Wilson's set of guidelines to rebuild European peace. Announced in Jan. 1918.
|
Most of plan rejected except for point 14
|
|
|
League of Nations
|
Organization of cooperating nations that could talk over problems & settle them peacefully.
|
Point 14
|
|
|
reparations
|
payment for damages by the losers
|
|
|
|
Big Four at Paris Peace Conference (1/18/1919)
|
Georges Clemenceau - France
David Lloyd George - Britain Vittorio Orlando - Italy Woodrow Wilson - U.S. |
"a victors' peace"
|
|
|
Treaty of Versailles
|
June 28, 1919
Not signed by U.S. |
Placed all the blame for the war on Germany & forced Germany to pay for its actions.
|
|
|
June 28, 1914
|
Archduke Francis Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo.
|
|
|
|
April 6, 1917
|
America officially entered the war.
|
|
