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- an agreement to follow common policies, not as formal as a treaty
-Britain signed one with France and with Russia (the Allies) |
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- glorification of the military
- made people more eager to fight for their country |
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-Russian belief that all Slavic people should stick together
-policy caused Russia to help Serbia |
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- competition for colonies and expanded influences
-the fight for colonies in Africa caused France and Britain to ally more against Germany |
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- Pride in one's race and country
-France was angry at Germany for the Franco-Prussian War
-Germany took pride in it's new empire
-peoples of common race vied for their own nations |
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- countries pledging to work together
- done to create large powers that no one would want to fight, but it just created two sides (Allies and Central Powers) |
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-Central Power
-Attacked Serbia after Serbia assassinated the archduke (triggered the war) |
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-new states arose in this area and threatened controlling empires (A-H and Ottoman Empire)
-Greece, Albania, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia |
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-Archduke of A-H and heir to the throne
-Was assassinated in Serbia |
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-Germany mailed a blank check to A-H and said that they would support it's war efforts in any way they could
-One of the reasons why Germany was considered the bad guy of the war |
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-designed to attack France and avoid fighting Russia on the opposite border at once
-German troops took a direct root through Belgium to France
-Invading Belgium drew Britain into the war (Britain had a treaty w/ Belgium) |
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-get in trenches and shoot at each other, then run at machine gun turrets
-stupid battle plan used in most of world war one
-what happens when medieval tactics meet modern weapons |
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| -German subs that could sneak up on ships and torpedo them |
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-devoting a nation's entire resources to war (Money, population, etc.)
-countries in world war one did this |
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| 1916: France held of Germany's attack for 11 months, but at the cost of 500k deaths. |
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1916: Allied offsensive
- 60k British wounded or killed in one day; over a million died in the course of 5 month; no one gained anything |
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- An attempt made by the allies to open up the Dardanelles (important strait connecting the Mediterranean and the Black Sea)
-Allies gave up after 200k deaths |
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| -British colonel led Arba guerrilla raids against Turks; eventually causing the empire to lose a lot of Arab territory |
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| - joined Central Powers in 1914 |
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-1918: Russia taken over by Stalin
-signed the Brest-Litovsk Treaty to get Russia out of the war |
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-British cruise ship carrying American passengers
-sunk by Germany; angered America |
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-intercepted letter sent from Germany to Mexio
-Told mexico that if they attacked America, they would get Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico
-Made America mad; America joins Allies |
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-President who brought America into war
-wrote the 14 points of peace at end of war |
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- what germany & Wilson wanted to be the basis of the treaty
-reduce military
-adjusting colony control
-leave Russian territory
-Leave France and return Alsace
-Italy gets its land back from A-H
-independent poland
-freedom of the seas |
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