History quiz 3

New imperialism

the growth of industrial capitalism that created competition between nations for who could improve themselves better

Morocco Crisis

Between France and Germany who both wanted control of Morocco

Franco-Prussian War

German Empire declared this war in the Hall of mirrors. Was France against Prussia with its German allies. Brought German Unification

Treaty of Frankfort

Ended the Franco-Prussian war. France had to pay 5 million, give land, and German troops occupied some of their land

Revanchism

Pouring large amounts of money into an army to become stronger than enemies and get revenge

Dual Alliance

Bismarck helped form Germany and Austria

Triple Alliance

Germany, Austria, and Italy (Italy was very loosely apart of this)

Otto Von Bismarck

Chancellor of Germany that worked to prevent France from starting a war with them. Made the Three empires league

Kaiser William II

Fired Bismarck. He wanted to create a large empire and take everything. Developed “New Course”

“New Course”

Aimed at securing supremacy in Europe and expanding global interests

Dual Entente

France and Russia alliance

Triple Entente

France, Russia, and Britain (Britain was loosely apart of this)

Admiral Alfred Von Tirpitz

Led the building of the Dreadnoughts and the development of a submarine fleet

Anglo-German Naval Race

The launching of massive efforts to build the most powerful military between the Germans and Britain

Dreadnoughts

Biggest battleships ever built with very large guns

Congress of Berlin

Serbs gained independence from the Ottoman empire and received support from Russia. Austria got protection from Bosnia.

Greater Serbia

an expanded state that incorporated all Serbs in the Balkans

Support from Russia to Serbia

The support from Russia was strong because of religion and having them as a stepping stone

The Black Hand

Violent nationalist group formed by Serbian military officers and government officials

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Heir to Austrian empire. Wanted to diffuse tensions so he visited Sarajevo to meet with someone.

Austrian annexation of Bosnia

Austria went to Bosnia and made it part of the Austrian- Hungarian empire which just pissed Serbs off even more

Gavrilo Princip

Member of the Black Hand that killed the archduke. He was dying from TB

Dragutin Dimitrijevic

Gave the Black Hand weapons, money, and training

Blank Check

Germans 100% support for an attack on Serbia

Austria’s Ultimatum

Austrian investigators would come into Serbia and have access to everything

Germanys 12 hour ultimatum

Germany demanded Russia to end its mobilization. This could not be met in the time given. War begins

Schlieffen plan

Minimal troop deployment against Russia while most of the German military would deploy against France and quickly defeat them. Germany would attack France through Belgium

Schlieffen plan fails

Germany did not calculate that Britain would assist France

Britain pledged to defend Belgian neutrality, if Germany won the war they would fight Britain next, and wanted to divert attention from Ireland

Reasons Britain joined the war

Zig Zag front line trenches

Reduced impact of shell fire. Enemies would not be able to come up and do a direct line of fire through the trenches

Razor wire

Couldn’t be shot through and had to cut through which would take to long

Pillboxes

Small slit in a wall where they would have machine guns

Chlorine gas

made to seep into underground bunkers. developed shells that would release this

Ypies 1915

first time it was used

Flame throwers

incinerated troops in enemy trenches particularly pill boxes

Planes

used for observation and artillery ranging

Manfred von Richtofen

Red Barron 80 kills

Tanks

only thing that actually worked with trenches.

Battle of the Sommes

British artillery pounded German trenches for one week before the attack. When done British troops went on No Mans Land and got shot down by the Germans that survived