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48 Cards in this Set
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Reinsurance Treaty |
secret treaty between Germany and Russia arranged by Otto von Bismarck (of Germany) |
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Wilhelm II |
German Emperor during WWI; his policies were a large reason foe WWI. |
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Triple Entente |
European alliances with Britain, France, and Russia before WWI |
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June 28, 1914 |
Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand (heir to Austrian throne); Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia; beginning of WWI |
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Francis Ferdinand |
Was assassinated and was the immediate cause of World War One. |
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Central Powers |
Germany |
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Central Powers |
Austria-Hungary |
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Central Powers |
Ottoman Empire |
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Central Powers |
Bulgaria |
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Allies |
Russia |
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Allies |
Serbia |
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Allies |
France |
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Allies |
United Kingdom |
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Allies |
Italy |
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Allies |
United States (1917) |
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Schlieffen Plan |
the German plan to invade France by sending their forces through neutral Belgium and quickly surrounding Paris (spoiler alert: it failed) |
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Stalemate |
No major gains on either side at the end of a war. |
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World War One |
known as the Great war; first war to be fought on a global scale |
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Battle of Somme |
lasted 4 months; 600,000 British troops died :( |
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Total war |
a war in which all of the resources of a country are devoted to destroying the enemy. |
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Vladimir Lenin |
Communist Russian leader who came to power in 1918 and signed a treaty with the Germans to keep peace w/ them. Led the Bolsheviks. |
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Paris Peace Conference |
January 1919 |
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Paris Peace Conference |
Delegates from 32 nations attended, excluded Central Powers and Russia, signed the Treaty of Versailles to end the war |
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Treaty of Versailles |
treaty between the Allies and Germany that contained harsh demands and blamed Germany for the war |
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Bolsheviks |
Radical faction led by Vladimir Lenin and supported by violence |
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Menshiviks |
sought change through more peaceful methods |
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Joseph Stalin |
second comunist dictator who tried to build up industrial production |
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Weimar Republic |
Refers to Germany and its political system between 1918 (end of WWI) and 1933 (rise of Nazism) |
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Nazi |
National Socialist German Worker's Party |
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Adolf Hitler |
leader of the Nazi Party who gained power in the political process and declared himself dictator of Germany in 1933 |
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Benito Mussolini |
leader of the Fascist Party, ruled first as prime minister of Italy ans set up a legal dictatorship |
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League of Nations |
Aim "to garentee international cooperation and achive peace and security" |
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Washington Navel Comference |
Several nations met in 1921-1922 and agreed to limit the number of war ships each could build (goal to avoid war) |
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Locarno Pact |
Negoyiated in Locarno, Switzerland. signed by all the western European countries to prevent war |
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Kellogg-Briand Pact |
Signed by several nation s in 1928. goal goal was to outlaw the use of war and negotiate instead |
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Sun Yat-Sen |
Leader of the Chinese Nationalist Party: known as the father of modern China. Served as the first provisional president of the Republic of China |
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Kuomintang |
the nationalist party |
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Chiang Kai-shek |
head of the nationalist government in China after the death of Sun Yat-Sen; He expelled Chinese Communists from the party and led a successful unification of China |
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Industrialism and Innovation: |
Machine Guns, Flamethrowers, Poisonous Gas, Tanks, Zeppelins, Submarines |
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Sinking of the Lusitania |
Germans agreed to have restrictions on submarine warfare because of this. That didn't last long. |
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Steps that led the U.S. into WWII |
sinking of the Lusitania, unrestricted submarine warfare, and the Zimmerman note. |
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Mao Zedong |
Leader of the Chinese Communist Party. Stirred up peasant revolts. The clash of them and the nationalists made a civil war |
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Chinese Communist Party |
Split off from the Nationalists |
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Pan-Arabism |
The concept that all Arabs form one nation and should be politically united in one Arab state. The goal was to destroy Isreal. |
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The Great Depression |
1929-1939 |
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The Great Depression |
The deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the western industrialized world |
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Federal Reserve |
Doubled interest rate, hindered economic growth, caused the stock market to crash |
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Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act |
passed tariffs of other countries exports to gain money |
