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31 Cards in this Set
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How many Opium wars were there? |
two |
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Britian sold _____ opium to _____ |
Britian sold chinese opium from to |
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What does "Extraterritoriality" mean? |
When foreigners living in a country do not have to obey laws of the country |
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Commodore Matthew Perry |
Took a letter from the U.S president millard fillmore as king Japan |
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Japan's navy ___ the war against ____ which made Japan a _____ |
won, Russia, world power |
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What is militarism |
a Strong attraction to war |
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What is a conscription, or draft? |
when a country forces people to join the military |
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What is an Entente? |
a formal agreements between 2 nations |
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what is mobilization? |
readiness for a conflict |
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What is propaganda? |
Biased information to influence the public opinion |
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blockade |
the closing of a harbor to prevent entrance or exit. |
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Alliance |
agreements to help one another in case of war |
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Who was in the Triple alliance? |
Germany Austria hungary Italy |
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Who was in the Triple Entente? |
Britian France Russia |
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What was the Western Front? |
The battle zone between France and German |
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What were the two sides in WWI? |
The Allies, and the Central Powers. |
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Who was in the Allies? |
Italy Russia Britian France |
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Who was in the central power |
Germany Ottoman Empire Austria-Hungary Bulgaria |
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What were the new weapons in WWI? |
Tanks and poison gasses |
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What were the other weapons in WWI |
Cannons Machine guns Airplanes |
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How did Women contribute to the war? |
Worked in factories made weapons made supplies made war goods |
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Russia had no _____. |
Modern weapons |
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Russia weakend Germany by _____? |
splitting it into 2 fronts |
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Why did Britian get involved in the war. |
Britian had Ententes with France and Russia. They were only agreements, but French and Russians were given the inpression the Britian would fight. (Schlieffen plan) |
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What was the Schlieffen Plan? |
1.Germany's military plan to defeat France and russia 2. Knock out blow aimed at France 3. Germans thought Britian would not intervene |
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What is Total war? |
When every aspect of society is mobilized to fight in wars. |
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What were Trenches? |
Trenches were ditches that were protected by barbed wire |
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What was "No Man's Land"? |
The land in between 2 trenches |
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What were German submarines called? |
U-Boats |
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_____________ Kept Russia in the war despite his people not wanting to fight |
Czar Nicholas II |
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Who were the bolshiveks led by? |
Vladmir Lenin |
