Mid-Term Review History

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Alliances

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Two countries fighting for one another

Hint 1

Germany and Austria-Hungary

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Militarism

Back 2

A policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army always prepared for war.

Hint 2

Ready for war

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Imperialism

Back 3

A policy of strong nations

Hint 3

Setted the stage for war

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Nationalism

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Being loyal to their country

Hint 4

Devotion to one's nation

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Triple entente

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France , Great Britain , and Russia

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Triple alliance

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Didn't bind Britain to fight with France and Russia. However, it did almost certainly ensure that Britain wouldn't fight against them.

Germany , Austria-Hungary , and Italy

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Tanks

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Armed Combat vehicles moved on chain tracks and could move along many terrains.

EX: M1 Abrams

Hint 7

M1 Abrams

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Hand Grenades

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Round Green explosive. To make it explode you pull a pin out of the top and throw it

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Machine guns

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Fires ammo automatically and could wipe out waves of people as long as the trigger is pressed.

EX: M1895 Colt–Browning machine gun

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Poison Gas

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Masks and some gases could blind or even kill you.

EX. Mustard gas

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Kaiser Wilhelm II

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Ruler of Germany forced Bismark to resign Didn't want to share power with anyone and he wanted to show the world how great Germany was.

Hint 11

Kaiser

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Central powers

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Germany and Austria-Hungary were known as the central powers because of there location in the heart of Europe. Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire would later join the central powers in the hopes of gaining lost territory.

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Allies

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Great Britain, France and Russia were known as the Allied powers or the allies. Japan joined the allies with in weeks. Italy joined later because they were originally a member of the triple alliance.

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Western Front

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This deadlocked region in northern France became known as the western front.

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Schlieffen plan

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Named after it's designer, General Alfred Graf von Schlieffen. The plan called for attacking in to beating France in the West and then rushing East to fight Russia.

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Trench warfare

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In this type of warfare soldiers fought each other from trenches. And armies created huge losses of human life for small land gains.

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Eastern Front

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This area was a stretch of Battlefield to learn German and Russian border. Here, Russians and Serbs battled Germans and austro-hungarian. The war in the East with a more mobile war than that in the West. Here too however, and slaughter and stalemate were common.

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Unrestricted submarine warfare

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The Germans announced that their submarines would sink without warning any ship in the waters around Britain. This policy was called unrestricted submarine warfare. In January 1917.

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Total war

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This meant the countries devoted all of the resources to the war efforts. In Britain, Germany, Austria, Russia, and France, the entire forest of government was dedicated to winning the conflict. In each country, the wartime government took control of the economy. Governments told factories what to produce and how much.

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Rationing

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So many in short supply the government's turns rationing. Under this system, people could buy only small amounts of those items that were also needed for the war efforts. Eventually, rationing covered a wide range of goods, butter to shoe leather.

Hint 20

FOOD SHORTAGE

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Propaganda

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One sided information designed to persuade, to keep up morale and support for the war.

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Armistice

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An agreement to stop fighting. On November 11th, World War 1 came to an end.

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Big 4

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Prime Ministers David Lloyd George of Great Britain, Vittorio Orlando of Italy, Georges Clemenceauof France, and President Woodrow Wilson

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M.A.I.N

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The four causes of WW1

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Treaty of Versailles

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Germanies land went to the league of nations then they were independent. Germany had to pay the allies. Germany was blamed for it. League of nations, Germany lost land

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Causes of WW1

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Archduke Franz Ferdinand

M.A.I.N

Black Hand

Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia

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Post-WW1

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Austria-Hungary split and Serbia was eliminated.

Montanagro-GONE

OTTOMAN EMPIRE-GONE

POLAND WAS ADDED

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NO MAN'S LAND

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disputed ground between the front lines or trenches of two opposing armies."enemy soldiers facing you across no man's land"an indeterminate or undefined place or state.unpunctuated: no man's land"the no man's land between the two parties is where presidential contests are won and lost"land or area that is unowned, uninhabited, or undesirable

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POWDER KEG OF EUROPE

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The "Powder keg of Europe", sometimes alternately known as the "Balkan Powder Keg", refers to the Balkans in the early part of the 20th century preceding World War I.

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RUSSIAN REVOLUTION-CAUSE

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The Russian Revolution of 1917 involved the collapse of an empire under Tsar Nicholas II and the rise of Marxian socialism under Lenin and his Bolsheviks. It sparked the beginning of a new era in Russia that had effects on countries around the world.

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Communist leader of Russia led the revolution

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Vladimir Lenin

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Bolsheviks

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Old communist party name?

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Woman's role in the war

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During WWI (1914-1918), large numbers of women were recruited into jobs vacated by men who had gone to fight in the war. New jobs were also created as part of the war effort, for example in munitions factories. The high demand for weapons resulted in the munitions factories becoming the largest single employer of women during 1918. Though there was initial resistance to hiring women for what was seen as ‘men’s work’, the introduction of conscription in 1916 made the need for women workers urgent. Around this time, the government began coordinating the employment of women through campaigns and recruitment drives.

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Stalemate

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A draw or a tie in combat

Hint 34

Chess

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Arms race

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Fast production of military weapons and trying to make better weapons that could kill u in Seconds

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Mercantilism

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belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.historicalthe economic theory that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances, which a government should encourage by means of protectionism

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Imperialism

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a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force."the struggle against imperialism

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French Revolution

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The French Revolution was arevolution in France from 1789 to 1799. It led to the end of the monarchy. King Louis XVI was executed in 1793. The Revolutionended when Napoleon Bonaparte took power in November 1799 and in 1804 he became Emperor

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Age of revolution

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The Age of Revolution is the period from approximately 1775 to 1848 in which a number of significant revolutionary movements occurred in many parts of Europe and the Americas

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The Renaissance

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Renaissance definition. The cultural rebirth that occurred in Europe from roughly the fourteenth through the middle of the seventeenth centuries, based on the rediscovery of the literature of Greece and Rome