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Western Civilization
Chapter 29
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03/25/2007

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Arnold Toynbee
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a historian
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George Heym
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a German writer
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Henrich von Treitschke
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a popular historian
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Friedrich von Bernhardi
Definition
a German general and influential military writer
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Germany and the Next War
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written by Friedrich von Bernhardi
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Erich von Falkenhayn
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a General = exclaimed, "Even if we end in ruin it was beautiful."
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Union or Death (the Black Hand)
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a secret Serbian nationalist society
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Archduke Francis Ferdinand
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was murdered by a young terrorist
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Foreign Minister Count Leopold von Berchtold and Field Marshal Franz Conrad von Hotzendorf
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urged the destruction of Serbia to eliminate the threat to Austria's existence
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Victor Hugo
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expressed the "sacred anger" of the French
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Kaiser William II
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a king = clashed witht he aging prime minister when he ascended the throne
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Chancellor Bernhard von Bulow
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provoked a crisis to test someone
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Entente Cordiale
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was tested by Bernhard von Bulow
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Alexander Izvolsky
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a Russian foreign minister
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Dragutin Dimitrijevic
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organized the conspiracy to murder Francis Ferdinand
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Count Leopold von Berchtold
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decided to use Ferdinand's assassination as a pretext to crush Serbia
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Lebensraum
Definition
more living space
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Fritz Fischer
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a German historian
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Rupert Brooke
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a young British poet
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the "Marseillaise"
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the French national anthem
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Andre Fribourg
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a French soldier
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Bertrand Russell
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a British mathematician-philosopher
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Thomas Mann
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a distinguished German writer
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Friedrich Meinecke
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a German historian
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Stefan Zweig
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an Austrian writer
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Alfred von Schlieffen
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a General = was the chief writer of the German war plans
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Helmuth von Moltke
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a General = transferred troops from the French front,
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Henri Philippe Petain
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a General = his leadership allowed the French to hold on throught the war
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A.J.P. Taylor
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a British historian
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Robert Nivelle
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a General = a commander in chief of the French forces = ordered a mass attack
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The Gallipoli campaign
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cost the Allies 252,000 casualties
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Woodrow Wilson
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an American President
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Robert Lansing
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a Secretary of State
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Arthur Zimmerman
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a German Foreign Secretary
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Erich Ludendorff
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a General = prepared for a decisive offensive before the Americans could land sufficient troops in France to help the allies.
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John Pershing
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a General = head of the American forces
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Thomas A. Bailey
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an American historian
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Georges Clemenceau
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France's representative at the conference table
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Hajo Holborn
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a German-American historian
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David Lloyd George
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the British Prime Minister = resisted French demands
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Vorwarts
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the influential Social Democratic newspaper
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Tsar Nicholas II
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determined to preserve autocracy
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Aleksandr Kerensky
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a radical lawyer of great eloquence
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Lavr Kornilov
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sought to establish a military dictatorship
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Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (known as Lenin)
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studied law but practiced revolution instead = a marxist
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Leon Trotsky (Lev Bronstein)
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the son of a prosperous Jewish farmer
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Joseph Stalin (Iosif Dzhugashvili)
Definition
he was bright enough to be sent to the best school in the area, but he dropped out for a revolutionary career
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Robert Graves
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a British poet
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Paul Valery
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a French writer
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Julian Grenfell
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spoke for many other combat soldiers
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D.H. Lawrence
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a British novelist
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