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33 Cards in this Set
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Allies
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England, France, Russia, Serbia, Montenegro, Portugal, Belgium, Luxembourg, Greece, Italy, Australia, USA, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, China
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Central (Axis) Powers
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Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria
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Gavrilo Princip
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Serbian assassin of Franz Ferdinand and his wife
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Black hand
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secret Serbian society, Pan-Slavism movement
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Austrian Ultimatum
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series of requests to Serbia June 28, 1914, compromise not accepted
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Russian Mobilization
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caused by the Austrians declaring war to protect Serbia, faster than expected, July 24
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Plan XVII
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French war strategy to berlin
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Schlieffen Plan
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German optimistic war plan to Paris through Belgium from west, failed b/c: 1st battle of marne, 'fog of war' (bad maps&weather), belgian resistance(terrorism, gorilla warfare, british expiditionary forces, russia's attack in east
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"Poor Little Belgium"
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Germans killed 10 civilians for 1 dead soldier, marched through & taking advantage
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"Big Bertha"
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by Krupp, 43 tons, transported on rail roads had a shell reach of 7.7 miles
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Battle of Marne
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French & English stopped Germans 25 miles before Paris, September 5-12, foreshadows a long war
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Stalemate
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no progress made by either side
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Trench Warfare
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100-300 m nomansland(water holes) due to modern technology and traditional tactics, german duggouts with concrete, outposts in nomansland (most dangerous), Wire dury(fix barbed wire, big push:never happened , over the top:leave trench with latter & walk/run, trench hobbies & brotherhood
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War of Attrition
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wear down the other country on supplies and man power to make a break through more realistic
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Total War
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all aspects of economy, industry, military, government, .. are into the war
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Blockade
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british supply blockade (attrition) hunger in German front lines
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(Unrestricted) Submarine Warfare
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submarines sinking any ship they think might aid the enemy in war
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U-Boats
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undeveloped, small, slow
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Lusitania
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passanger ship with lots of artillery, sunk by Captain Schwieger May 7, 1915, even though everyone was warned
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Propaganda
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posters and such to recruit men for the army, gain money, recruit nurses, make the country willing to fight this war, provoke hatred for the enemy
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Homefront
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in the US there was a huge amount of propaganda and spread involvement
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Wilhelm II
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related to Queen and Russians, loved ships in bad childhood, couldn't continue Bismark's ally system, supported british naval race
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Nicholas II
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Russia' last emperor, ended with the 2nd russian revolution
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Paul von Hindenburg
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2nd president of germany, had army power
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Winston Churchill
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prime minister of GB, home secretary during WWI
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Woodrow Wilson
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28th president after 3 years decided to totally enter WWI
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Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig
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british commander in chief, battle of somme, bloody
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Isolationism
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American status, but they got involved with the trading in the war
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Battle of the somme
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British and French planed major offensive but were too optimistic and didn't make the breakthrough for 7 days , attrition, 6600 men killed
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Battle of Verdun
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pressure taken off by battle of the somme
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Battle of Passchendaele
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in a swamp in southern belgium, canadians went through the swamps
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Battle of Tannenberg
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Russian generals shot themselves split their army& lost, only large scale victory for Germany
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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
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Lenin negotiated with Germany,
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