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| 1. Explain the 4 major causes of World War I |
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| M = Militarism, A = Alliances, I = Imperialism, and N = Nationalism. |
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| 2. Who was Franz Ferdinand? |
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| There are two portraits below, showing Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg. The Scottish band Franz Ferdinand named themselves after him. |
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| What role did the Black Hand play? |
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| Black Hand, byname of Ujedinjenje Ili Smrt (Serbo-Croation: Union or Death), secret Serbian society of the early 20th century that used terrorist methods to promote the liberation of Serbs outside Serbia from Habsburg or Ottoman rule and was instrumental in planning the assassination of the Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand (1914) |
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4. What was Germany’s “blank check”? |
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| July 5, 1914: Germany Gives Austria-Hungary a “Blank Check” The “blank check” is an infamous episode in the history of the First World War; the first truly fatal error made by Germany – a promise of unconditional support for whatever action Austria-Hungary might take to punish Serbia. |
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| 5. a. Who were the Allies? |
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| The Allies included Britain, France, Russia, Italy and the United States. These countries fought against the Central Powers which included Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria. Archduke Ferdinand, of Austria-Hungary, was assassinated by a Serb on June 28, 1914. |
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| b. Who were the Central Powers? |
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| World War One is a conflict between the Central Powers and the Allies. The Central Powers (red) consist of Austria-Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire. Important allied powers (yellow) are Serbia, Russia, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Belgium and the United States. |
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| 6. What was the Schlieffen Plan? |
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| So, when the war started in 1914, the Germans immediately invaded Belgium. ... The Belgians held out in Liège for eleven days, delaying the German invasion of France by perhaps about a week, in turn giving the French time to pivot some troops to the Belgian border. The Schlieffen Plan thus brought Belgium into the war. |
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| 7. What were the effects of “total war”? |
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| Transcript of Total war and its social and economic impact on civilians in Germany during WW1. ... The image on the right is a secondary source that was designed to outline the statistics of the economic impacts during the First World War for Germany. this shows the initial loss that Germany had faced |
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| 8. What was the major issue that Austria-Hungary faced? |
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| The main ethnic groups in Austria-Hungary. The single most important issue facing the Empire was nationalism. This took the form of demands for political and culturalequality for all the different national groups in the Empire. The response of the Germans and Hungarians to these demands was very different. |
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What new weaponry was used in WWI? |
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| Airplanes, products of the new technology, were primarily made of canvas, wood, and wire. At first they were used only to observe enemy troops. As their effectiveness became apparent, both sides shot planes down with artillery from the ground and with rifles, pistols, and machine guns from other planes. |
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| What were women’s roles during WWI? |
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| Women's work in WW1. During WWI (1914-1918), large numbers of women were recruited into jobs vacated by men who had gone to fight in the war. New jobs were also created as part of the war effort, for example in munitions factories. |
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| Trench warfare emerged due the failure of the Schliffen Plan. It was a new system of warfare which was a direct cause of the stalemate, and this is why. It was a system of defense not offense. Neither the Allies nor Germany were gaining any ground. |
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What were the major principles and effects of the Treaty of Versailles? |
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| World War I officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919. Negotiated among the Allied powers with little participation by Germany, its 15 parts and 440 articles reassigned German boundaries and assigned liability for reparations. |
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| What was the significance of the Zimmerman Note? |
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| The Zimmermann Note, or telegram, was sent by German Foreign Minister ArthurZimmermann in 1917. He had sent it to his ambassador in Mexico and the goal was to get Mexico to become an ally of Germany. ... Mexico and Japan denied any involvement with Germany. The United States declared war soon after. |
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| Nicholas II or Nikolai II was the last Emperor of Russia, ruling from 1 November 1894 until his forced abdication on 15 March 1917. |
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| What was the Christmas Truce of 1914? |
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| The Christmas Truce of 1914 is often celebrated as a symbolic moment of peace in an otherwise devastatingly violent war. We may like to believe that for just one day, all across the front, men from both sides emerged from the trenches and met in No Man's Land to exchange gifts and play football. |
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