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Years of WW1
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7-28-1914 to 9-18-1918
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When US entered WW1
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1917 when we attacked Germany
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What was the armistice for WW1?
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Treaty/agreement that ended the war in 1918
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What was the Triple Entente?
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Britain, France, Russia
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What was the Triple Alliance?
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Germany, Italy, Austria/Hungary
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Who was Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
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Ferdinand was Prince of Hungary- he and his wife were assassinated. This was one of the reasons WW1 started.
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Who was Gavrillo Princip?
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Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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What was "the Spark"?
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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand- a event that sparked a war
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Trench warfare
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The Germans lived in the trenches- did not ever leave
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Belgium
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Germany invaded Belgium in order to attack France
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Role of Russia
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allied with Britain and France. WW1 destroyed Russia. Russians ended up overthrowing Czar Nicholas and starting over to repair their country. Start of Russian revolution.
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Schlieffen Plan
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Plan of attack by Germany- they went through and thrashed Belgium in order to enter and attack France
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Battle of Marne in 1914
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French and British troops pushed back Germany and won this battle in Marne, France
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Ypres
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A town in Belgium where three major battles took place
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Russian Revolution
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WW1 placed hardships on Russians- Nicholas is overthrown and the Bolsheviks came into power.
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Lusitania
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British ocean liner sunk by the Germans
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Zimmerman Note
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A note written by Germany promising that if the US joined with them, they'd give Mexico to the US. President Woodrow Wilson released it to the press-made Americans hate Germany
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Lenin
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He was a Russian leader who was behind the Russian Revolution
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Czar Nicholas
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He was overthrown thanks to Lenin during Russian Revolution
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Woodrow Wilson
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President during WW1
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Kaiser Wilhelm
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German Emperor and King of Prussia
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Treaty of Brest Litovsk
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Peace treaty between Russia and the Great Powers. After the October revolution the Russians had to leave the war because the country was exhausted and part of the comunist propaganda was the promise for peace.
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The Spanish Flu of 1918
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The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed more people than the Great War, known today as World War I (WWI), at somewhere between 20 and 40 million people. It has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in recorded world history. More people died of influenza in a single year than in four-years of the Black Death Bubonic Plague from 1347 to 1351. Known as "Spanish Flu" or "La Grippe" the influenza of 1918-1919 was a global disaster.
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Armenian Genocide
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Ottoman Empire killed more than one million Armenians during World War I
also known as the Armenian Holocaust, the Armenian Massacres and, by Armenians, as the Great Crime |
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Militarism
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the principle or policy of maintaining a large military establishment.
3. the tendency to regard military efficiency as the supreme ideal of the state and to subordinate all other interests to those of the military. |
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Propaganda
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information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread by a government or group widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
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Republic
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a state in which the head of government is not a monarch or other hereditary head of state- people choose/vote for the head
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Where democracy first began
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Athens, Greece
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Definition of Democracy
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government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
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Aristotle's Politics
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. Aristotle concludes that “man is a political animal”: we can only achieve the good life by living as citizens in a state. In discussing the economic relations that hold within a city-state, Aristotle defends the institution of private property, condemns excessive capitalism, and defends slavery. Rule of Law better than a monarch
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The twelve Tablets, Code of Justinian, ten Commandments
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Early Laws or Codes of Law that reflect morality
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Where senate and House of Reps originated
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with the Romans in 509 BC
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Judeo-Christian tradition
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God's law or natural laws- One God- monotheistic
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Plato's Republic
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Plato argued that the government should regulate every aspect of it citizen's lives in order to provide for their best interests. Cities need workers, soldiers and philosophers-kings to rule.
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