The Great War 19141918

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The Great War 1914-1918
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Road to War
Major Events Affecting Course of War
Human Costs
Human Rights Violations Genocide
Two Fronts
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• This cause of World War I is a deep devotion to
  ones own nation, which fueled competition
  between European nations.

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• What is nationalism?

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• This policy of glorifying military power and
  keeping an army prepared for war greatly
  contributed to the outbreak of WW I.

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• What is militarism?

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• This alliance system sought to create support for
  its allies France, Great Britain, and Russia.

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• What was the Triple Entente?

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• This alliance system, once known as the Triple
  Alliance, became known as the Central Powers
  with these two groups joined the alliance.

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• Who are the Ottoman Turks and Bulgaria?

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• What region was known as the Powderkeg of
  Europe because of its nearly 400 years of ethnic
  and political conflict?

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• What is the Balkan Peninsula?

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• This German war plan included attacking France
  through neutral Belgium before Russia had a
  chance to gather its forces.

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• What was the Schlieffen Plan?

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• In 1915 these four countries formed an alliance
  that would be known at the Allied Powers.

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• What are France, Great Britain, Russia, and Italy?

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• The _______ was marked by a bloody stalemate that
  stretched nearly 600 miles from the English
  Channel to the Swiss border.

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• What was the Western Front?

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• Decisive German victory against the Russians on
  the Eastern front in 1914.

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• What is the Battle of Tannenberg?

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• This was the only real asset of the Russian
  troops, who were out-gunned by their German
  enemies.

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• What are numbers of troops?

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• This political upheaval in Russia drastically
  changed the course of World War I.

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• What is the Russian Revolution?

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• This radical group took over control of Russia
  under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin in Nov.
  1917.

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• Who were the Bolsheviks?

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• Treaty signed in the spring of 1918, which ended
  the fighting on the Eastern Front.

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• What is the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?

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• The 1917 announcement of this policy by the
  Germans threatened the neurtrality of the United
  States.

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• What is unrestricted submarine warfare?

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• This helped to sway public opinion in the United
  States away from isolationism.

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• What is the sinking of U.S. ships bound for
  Britain?

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• In the first three years of the war, military
  losses were higher than they had been in _____
  years of war before that.

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• What is three-hundred?

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• These people produced war-related materials as a
  part of the total war effort.

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• Who are civillians?

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• This staggering percentage reflects the casualty
  rate of the Central Powers in World War I.

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• What is 67.4?

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• This 1918 epidemic traveled around the world,
  wherever soldiers fought and is responsible for
  killing more people that the war itself

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• What is the flu epidemic?

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• These three causes accounted for the civilian
  losses during World War I.

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• What are disease, starvation, and bombing and
  fighting on their own land.

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• This Allied action, according to German records,
  led to the starvation deaths of 763,000 people in
  Germany.

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• What is trade blockade?

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• This ethnic and religious minority was subject to
  a genocide effort at the hands of the Ottoman
  Turks in 1915.

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• Who are Armenians?

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• This is the estimated number of Armenians killed
  as a result of the Armenian Massacre between 1915
  and 1916.

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• What is at least 600,000?

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• The loss of civilian life aboard this ship
  (carrying both weapons and civilian travelers)
  influenced Americas decision to declare war
  against Germany in 1917.

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• What is the Lusitania?

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• Term used to describe inhumane tactics (terrible
  crimes) both sides of the conflict accused the
  other of using in World War I.

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• What are atrocities?

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• This term describes the powerful use of media
  (images, speech) to sway public opinion in favor
  of or against a particular subject.

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• What is propaganda?

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Europe After World War I
Postwar Disillusionment
Artists in the West After WW I
Treaty of Versailles
Impact New Weapons of War
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• This country is dissolved at the end of WW I, and
  four new nations are created from its land.

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• What is Austria-Hungary?

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• The country, which had been divided between
  Germany, Russia, and Austria-Hungary, is
  reconstituted, or restored.

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• What is Poland?

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• These two nations gave up additional territory to
  Poland and Romania.

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• What are Russia and Austria-Hungary?

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• This new nation was also the location of the
  assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

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• What is Yugoslavia?

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• These are the four new nations created at the end
  of World War I.

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• What are Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and
  Yugoslavia?

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• The shock associated with the postwar realities
  of WW I allowed for the emergence of this type of
  government.

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• What is totalitarianism?

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• This weapon was greatly feared by the troops in
  the trenches it had a distinctive yellow hue.

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• What is mustard gas?

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• This was signed in June 1919 at the end of World
  War I and punished the Germans severely
  (reparations, demilitarization).

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• What is the Treaty of Versailles?

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• Following a German U-boat attack against a French
  ship carrying U.S. civilians, the Germans
  responded with this promising not to attack
  merchant ships without warning.

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• What is the Sussex Pledge?

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• This invention/improvement in weapons technology
  made it possible to kill hundreds within minutes.

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• What is the machine gun?

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• The economic collapse following World War I
  resulted in these three economic results.

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• What are national bankruptcy, inflation, and
  unemployment?

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• People reacted with shock and disillusionment
  after WWI. These are two widespread reactions to
  it.

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• What are fear of the future and loss of faith in
  old systems?

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• This scaled back U.S. demands for debt payments
  and reparations from World War I and established
  a cycle of U.S. loans to Germany so they may pay
  the Allies which enabled the Allies to repay the
  U.S.

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• What is the Dawes Plan?

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• Lack of strong leadership and competing political
  parties allowed these forms of government to take
  hold in Europe in the 20s and 30s.

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• What are totalitarianism and fascism?

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• His magazine, American Mercury, served as the
  journalistic counterpart to the "lost generation"
  of writers who grew disillusioned with American
  post-war life.

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• Who is H.L. Mencken?

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• Post-war art rebelled against these.

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• What are realistic styles and traditional
  compositions?

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• Architecture in the post-WW I era explored these
  two concepts.

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• What are machine-age materials (glass, steel,
  concrete) and efficient cost-effective design?

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• Post-war artists explored these themes in their
  art.

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• What is a world of dreams and fantasy and seeing
  shapes in new ways?

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• Post-war literature demonstrated a rebellion
  against these.

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• What are romantic idealism and easy solutions?

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• Famous figures of literature in post-WW I include
  these two writers.

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• Who are James Joyce (Ireland) and Ernest
  Hemingway (U.S.)?

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• This was Woodrow Wilsons plan for establishing
  an international peace organization.

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• What is the Fourteen Points?

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• Countries known as the Big Four at the treaty
  negotiations.

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• Who are France, Great Britain, the United States,
  and Italy?

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• This country rejects the League of Nations
  because it felt that membership in the League
  could lead to future involvement in European wars.

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• What is the United States?

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• This principle allows people to decide for
  themselves under what government they wished to
  live.

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• What is self-determination?

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• This article of the Versailles Treaty placed all
  the blame on the war on Germany and forces it to
  pay all costs associated with it.

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• What is article 231?

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• This forbids Germany to buy or make weapons, have
  submarines or an air force, is assigned sole
  responsibility for the war, and forces them to
  pay 33 billion in wartime reparations.

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• What are the terms of the Versailles Treaty?

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