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Militarism
Development of armed forces and their use as a tool of diplomacy and threat.
System of Alliances
Provided a measure of international security because nations were reluctant to disturb the balance of power.
Imperialism
Building empires by extending economic and political control over various people
Nationalism
Extreme devotion to the interests and culture of ones nation completive and antagonistic rivalries
Ally Power
United states
Great Britain
France
Russia
Italy
Japan
Central Powers
Austria Hungary
Germany
Ottoman Empire
LOSERS
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
Heir to Austrian throne assassination sparked the war because of Alliances
Trench warfare
Armies fought for position and resulted in 1.2 million deaths. And only 7 miles of ground gained or lost.
Characteristics
1. Muddy
2. Disease(trench foot)
3. Violent
"no mans land"
Barren expanse of marked with craters barbed wire intense fighting gas attacks
Blockades and Uboat warfare
British blockade refused to allow military arms and even food into the country (750,000 Germans :()
U-boat warfare germans respond by using submarines to attack any vessels
Lusitania
British liner 128 Americans killed by u boat
Convoy System
Battle ships escorted merchant ships To protect from u boats
Conscientious objector
Oppose war on the basis of moral grounds
Zimmerman Note
A letter from germay to Mexico encouraging war against u.s to keep out of ww1
Propaganda
Designed to influence peoples thoughts and actions
Armistice
Cease fire or truce that ends war
Espionage and sedition acts
Banned saying anything disloyal profane or abusive about the government
Great migration
Thousands of southern blacks moved to northern cities
(New York, Chicago)
Flu Epidemic
Killed 30 million people worldwide
Fourteen points
Written by Woodrow Wilsn specific rules that would prevent war from happening again
League of nations
The 14th point of the fourteen points.
Provide a form for nations to discuss and settle their problems without war
Treaty of Versailles
Established 9 new countries barred germany from having an army had to pay 33 billion dollars in reparations and had to sign a war guilt clause admitting the war was all their fault