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18 Cards in this Set
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How did the alliance system that developed in the early 1900s help cause world war 1?
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When country's declared war on each other, the allied countries helped fight war on each other
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Trench warfare
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Fighting in trenches
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Technology in WW1
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New weapons: poison gas, tanks, subs, airplanes, machine guns, artillery guns
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What nation dropped out in 1917
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Russia
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Wharf nation joined after Russia dropped out
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America
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Treaty of Versailles
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Germany had to assume full blame
Huge reparations - destruction caused by war - pensions for widows and allied soldiers - $30 billion |
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His did WW1 contribute to the collapse of the Russian monarchy?
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Weaken Russian empire
Gave Russian citizens huge for a new gov. |
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Militarism
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Glorification of military
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Schieffen plan
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Russia mobilised quickly, shift forces to east which weakened the west
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Gavrilo princip
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Killed the arch of duke and his wife of Austria Hungary
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Alsace- Lorraine
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Lost border province of French who lost it in the Franco- Prussian war
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Neutrality
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Supporting neither side in the war
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Influenza
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Flu pandemic
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Recession
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Period of induced economic activity
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Dardanelles
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Vital strait connecting the Black Sea and Mediterranean Sea in present day turkey
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Conscription
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The draft which required all young men to be ready for military or other service
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Lusitania
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British liner sunk by Germany
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Effect of propaganda
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Encouraged people to join the war, to sway ones opinion
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