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40 Cards in this Set
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reason the war started |
Militarism(belief in military power),Alliances(a group of friends),Imperialism,nationalism(belief in your country) (MAIN) |
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triple alliance |
Germany, austria-hungary, and italy |
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Kaiser wilhelm II |
New ruler of Germany, Does not care about treaty with Russia and starts to build navy ships |
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triple entente |
Britain, france and russia |
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what sparked the war |
the assassination of franz ferdinand |
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The black hand |
A secret society committed to ridding bosnia |
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italy |
left and joined the allies with japan |
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central powers |
Germany, austria-hungary, ottoman empire, Kingdom of bulgaria |
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allies |
Great Britain, Russia, France, japan italy |
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western front |
The border of france and western germany |
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eastern front |
border of eastern germany and russia |
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Schlieffen |
a battle plan that was made from germany (france is attacked first because they thought it was weaker then they attack russia) |
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why Russia sucks in this war |
they were not industrialized |
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how the war was fought |
Trench warfare, Poison gas, Machine guns, tanks, submarines-planes |
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why U.S.A joins the war |
4 of the USA ships were sunk while in the process of trading |
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lusitania |
One of the ships that were sunk(was a cruise ship) |
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Zimmerman note |
The note that USA heard about (Germany sent it to mexico) |
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total war |
when you put forth all of your resources to the war effort |
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Propaganda |
Used to persuade people to be more like america |
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Paris peace conference |
a conference that mean create peace |
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Who does not show up to the conference |
Germany and the allies |
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Bolsheviks |
followers of Karl Marx(founder of communism) |
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Vladimir |
was the leader of the bolsheviks |
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Soviets |
working class |
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Russia turned to .... |
the soviet union |
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Why Russia in soviet union |
they believed in workers and people fighting for workers rights. |
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Treaty of versailles |
-A compromised reached from the Paris peace conference (created by Woodrow Wilson and weren't involved with it) |
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League of nations |
Group of nations to keep peace |
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taken from germany |
-Germany has most of their land taken away and they get very mad |
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Germany is screwed b/c |
They get blamed for the whole war and they could have a certain amount of soldiers |
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Japan & italy get upset b/c |
hey did not get any land from germany after Most of germany’s land was taken |
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How axis powers were created |
Japan, italy, and germany decided to team up and they created the axis powers |
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Russia left .... |
The war |
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Treaty of brest-litovsk |
ended the war between Germany and Russia(u.s. still wins because they have fresh troops) |
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Armistice |
Germany forced france to stop fighting |
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Cost of the whole war for u.s.a. |
$338Billion |
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The big four |
*Woodrow Wilson*(USA), Georges Clemenceau(France), David Lloyd George(great Britain), Vittoria Orlando(Italy) |
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14 points |
Woodrow Wilson's plan for peace |
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an association of nations |
A group of nations |
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The final point(14 point plan) |
proposed a “General asociation of nations” That would protect “great and small states alike” |