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world war I
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10th Grade
03/10/2011

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Term
formal defense agreement among nations
Definition
alliance
Term
friendly understanding between two nations that lacks binding commitment
Definition
entente
Term
distribution of power among rival nations so that no on enation is dominant
Definition
balance of power
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What are two other names for world war I?
Definition
the great war and the war to end all wars
Term
spirit of national pride and desire for unity of one's people 
Definition
nationalism
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What were the years of the war?
Definition
1914 to 1918
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What were four causes of the war?
Definition
militarism, alliances, nationalism, imperialism
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What was one spark of the war?
Definition
the assassination of archduke franc ferdinand
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What were four effects of world war I? (significance of the war)
Definition
fall of four great empires: Germany, Russia, Austria_Hungary, and the Ottoman; bolshevik revolution in russia, death of millions, second world war
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Who was a part of the triple alliance? Why did they allign?
Definition
Germnay, Austria_hungary, and Italy; alligned out of fear of France
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Who was a part of the triple entente? Why did they unite?
Definition
russia, france, and great britain; aligned out of fear of Germany and hungary
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What did Great Britain want?
Definition
open seas trade and a navy twice the size of its own
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What did France want?
Definition
Morrocco and northern africa
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What did Germany want?
Definition
economic control of the declining Ottoman empire
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What did Russia want?
Definition
to take take control of Bosporous and the Dardanelles near the black sea and to extend the influence it had over Manchuria in east asia
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What did Austria Hungary want?
Definition
land access through the balkans to the aegean sea
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What did serbia want?
Definition
 a pan slavic state
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1n 1908, Austria Hugnary annexed teh Slavic territories of _____, once part of the ottoman empire.
Definition
bosnia-herzegovnia
Term
What was the triple entente later known as?
Definition
the allies
Term
What was the triple alliance later known as?
Definition
the central powers
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What were teh neutral countries in the war? (7)
Definition
spain, the netherlands, switzerland, dnemark, norway, sweden, and albania
Term
Who makes up the allies?
Definition
britain, france, russia, belgium, japan, serbia, notenegro, and the u.s.
Term
What does Italy do in 1915? Why?
Definition
switches sides because they are promised territory
Term
Why did the U.S. enter the war?
Definition
wanted america to make the world safe for americans
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When did the united states enter the war?
Definition
april 2, 1917
Term
set of final conditions that must be accepted to avoid consequences
Definition
ultimatum
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Who was Kaiser Wilhelm the second?
Definition
the second emperor of united Germany
Term
Who was emperor Francis Joeseph? 
Definition
a hapsburg; 84 in 1914
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Who were the young turks and what did they do?
Definition
military reformers that conducted military strategy
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What was the Schlieffen Plan? Why didn't it work?
Definition
german military plan; russian army mobilized faster than expected
Term
When was the battle of the marne? Who won?
Definition
September 5, 1914; french won
Term
What was trench warfare?
Definition
germnas and the allies began a series of battles known as the  "race to the sea" with each attempting to reach the north sea first
Term
World war one was a war of _____.
Definition
attrition
Term
What does war of attrition mean?
Definition
each side tried to wear down the other side by constant attacks
Term
What four new weapons and strategies were introduced in hopes to help end the western front stalemate?
Definition
poison gas, tank, gallipoli, and air war
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What was the purpose of the tank?
Definition
an armored vehicle designed to move people through "no-man's land"
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What happened at the battle of verdun?
Definition
the germans staged a surprise attack against the French at verdun
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When was the battle of the somme? who was involved?
Definition
februrary 1916; british and french vs. germany
Term
What did Winston Churchill want to do?
Definition
help russia out by opening a third front that would be controlled by turkey
Term
What was the Gallipoli campaign?
Definition
winston churchill wanting to help russia
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What did Russia's signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovosk lead to?
Definition
the loss of 1.3 of the russian population to germany
Term
What happend in november 1917 after the new provisional government in russia held elections?
Definition
the bolshevik communist revolutionaries took over the government in a coup
Term
What was the name of the treaty that ended the war?
Definition
treaty of versailles
Term
Which of Wilson's fourteen points were actually realized in the treaty that ended that war?
Definition
the league of nations
Term
Which colony did Ghandi represent? Tilak? Ataturk? Ho Chi Minh?
Definition
india, india, turkey, indochina
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