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19 Cards in this Set
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Germany, Austria-Hungary, & Italy (before war)
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Triple Alliance/Central Powers
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Britain, France, & Russia (until Revolution)
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Triple Entente/Allied Powers
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Austrian Archduke and his wife are assasinated which sparked the onset of WWI
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Francis Ferdinand & Sofie
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Member of the "Black Hand" who assasinated the archduke & his wife in Sarajevo, Bosnia in July 1914.
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Gavrilo Princip of Serbia
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Serbian revolutionary group that plotted to free Bosnia from Austria to join with Serbia
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"Black Hand"
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Two countries that caused a World War due to their alliances
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Austria Hungary vs. Serbia
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30+ countries involved in a European War whose effects were felt Worldwide.
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"The Great War"/ World War I
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Germans are stopped by French & British troops at the Marne River outside of Paris & forced to retreat
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Battle of the Marne
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A British ocean liner sunk by a German U-boat killing 128 U.S. citizens which caused public sentiment to favor war
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The Lucitania
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U.S. President who asked Congress to declare war on Germany April 7, 1917
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President Woodrow Wilson
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President Wilson developed a plan to prevent a second world war including a peacekeeping organization to settle disputes between nations
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The Fourteen Points & League of Nations (1920)
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A telegram sent by Germany's foreign secretary asking Mexico to support them & in return they would regain the southwest states lost to the U.S. in Mexican War.
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Zimmerman Telegram
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a compromise between Germany and the Allied powers (June 28, 1919) which blamed Germany for the war & all war debts & sewed the seeds for the 2nd World War
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Treaty of Versailles
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an agreement between Germany & the Allies to stop fighting
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Armistice Day on 11/11/1918
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Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, & East Prussia
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8 new nations created by Treaty of Versailles in France
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new weapons of WWI
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Zeppelins, bi & tri planes, tanks, U-boats, gas bombs, machine guns, et. al.
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one-sided information designed by countries at war to persuade, keep up morale, or support for the war
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propaganda
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countries devote all their resources to the war effort; wartime government, factories convert to weapons manufacturing, use of propaganda & rationing & women in work force
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Total War
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Pres. Wilson felt that people should be allowed to decide for themselves under what government they wished to live
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Self-Determination
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