Question | Answer |
Imperialism | a policy of extending your rule over foreign countries |
triple alliance | Alliance between Germany, Italy, Austria Hungry |
triple entente | An alliance between Great Britain, France and Russia |
alsace lorraine | Territory taken by Germany from France as a rest of the Franco Prussian war. Was later returned to France as a result of German defeat in WWI |
Militarism | a political orientation of a people or a government to maintain a strong military force and to be prepared to use it aggresivly to defend or promote national interests |
Balkins | region that included most of present-day Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey, and former Yougoslavia |
black hand | a nationalistic group that encouraged ethnic Serbs in areas such as Bosnia to work for unification of Serbia. It organized the murder of Franz Ferdinand |
Schlieffen plan | Germany's military plan at the outbreak of World War I, according to which German troops would rapidly defeat France and then move east to attack Russia. Thru belgium, worried about being encircled |
trench warfare | war from inside trenches enemies would try killing eachother with machine guns and tanks, and poison gas |
Total War | In each country during the First World War, a government of national unity that began to plan and control economic and social life in order to make the greatest possible military effort. |
English Channel | body of water that separates France and England |
Flu epidemic of 1918 | Started in Fort Riley, Killed more people in WWI, spread when American Soldiers went overseas |
Red Terror | campaign of mass arrests, deportations, executions conducted by the bolshevicks government in early soviet russia |
Peace without victory | President Wilson call to the fighting nations that neither side would impose harsh terms on the others. Wilson hoped that all nations would join a "league for peace". |
League of Nations | A world organization established in 1920 to promote international cooperation and peace. It was first proposed in 1918 by President Woodrow Wilson, although the United States never joined the League. Essentially powerless, it was officially dissolved in 1946. |
self determination | belief that people in a territory should have the ability to choose their own government |
14 points | Created by Woodrow Wilson: disarmament. self determination. collective security. open diplomacy. freedom of seas. peace without victory |
Dawes plan | A plan to revive the German economy, the United States loans Germany money which then can pay reparations to England and France, who can then pay back their loans from the U.S. This circular flow of money was a success. |
Ruhr Crisis | This event in 1922 included the invasion of the Ruhr valley by France to collect Reparations from Germany - connected to the Dawes plan |
Treaty of St.Germain | Austria - had to limit her army to 30,000 men, territories handed over to now states and independence recognized, lost 15 million of its people and almost all of its industrial area, forbade an economic union with Germany unless the Council of the League of Nations gave consent, left Austria financially and militarily weak - needing loans from the League of Nations |
Locarno Treaty | (1925) Pact that secured the frontier between Germany and France and Germany and Belgium. It also provided for mutual assistance by France and Italy if Germany invaded its border countries. |
Treaty of Neuilly | Dealt with Bulgaria November 1919 Did well compared to Germany, Austria It lost land to Greece, Romanio, Yugoslavia Had to limit its army to 20,000 Pay £ 100 million |
Treaty of Trianon | Dealt with hungary June 4, 1920) Treaty at the end of World War I between Hungary and the Allied Powers, signed at the Trianon Palace at Versailles, France. By its terms, Hungary lost two-thirds of its former territory, which was divided among Czechoslovakia, Austria, the future Yugoslavia, and Romania. Hungary's armed forces were restricted to 35,000 lightly armed men, to be used only to maintain internal order. |
monroe doctrine | A statement of foreign policy which proclaimed that Europe should not interfere in affairs within the United States or in the development of other countries in the Western Hemisphere. |
Treaty of Sevres | Turkey 1920. 1. A league of nations will be set up 2. Turkey gives land to Greece, other areas under British and French mandates 3. Turkey disarms and pays reparations 4. The Dardenelles Straits under the League of Nations |
What was America's Policy after the War (WW1) | Isolationism After the war, the US was the wealthiest and most powerful in the world |
Events in Manchuria | Manchuria was independent from China, had lots of natural resources. Japan Invaded this independent region. China wanted help from LON, but that didn't happen; led to Japan leaving LON. |
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