Stone Chapter 2

Main causes of WW1

Militarism - new types of militaries

Alliances - formed to reduce war but ended up dragging more countries in

Imperialism - competition over natural resources and land

Nationalism - creates tensions that led to the assassination if archduke franz ferdinand

Who assassinated the archduke?

gavrilo princip

The 4 alliances associated with WW1

triple alliance, central powers, triple entente, allied powers

western front

trench warfare, very static

eastern front

mobile warfare

new technologies

planes, barbed wire, tanks, poison gas

germanys war plan

schleiffen plan

what role did u-boats play?

german submarines that sunk the lusitania

who was the president during the war?

woodrow wilson

the zimmerman telegram

secret letter sent from germany to the president of mexico encouraging mexico to invade the US

the lusitania

passenger vessel sunk by german u-boat. killed 1000+ people including 128 americans

the russian revolution

treaty of brest-litovsk. vladimir lenin emerged as the leader of russia afterwards

treaty signed between russia and germany in 1918

treaty of brest-litovsk

the fourteen points

president wilson’s plan for post war europe. point 14 called for the creation of a league of nations