Ch. 29 Part I WW I Identification List

Kaiser Wilhelm II

Leader of Germany during WWI

Triple Alliance

An alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy in the years prior to WWI.

Triple Entente

An alliance between Great Britain, France and Russia in the years prior to WWI.

Jingoism

extreme patriotism, especially in the form of aggressive or warlike foreign policy.

Dreadnought

A battleship with increased speed and power over conventional warships, developed by both Germany and Great Britain to increase their naval arsenals.

Gavriel Princip

Serbian nationalist, assassin of Archduke Ferdinand.

Archduke Francis Ferdinand

Heir to the throne of Austria; his assassination by the Serbians was the spark that led to WWI

Sarajevo

Capital of Bosnia

Blank check

Germany swears to support Austria-Hungary in any actions it takes against Serbia

Western Front

In WWI, the region of Northern France where the forces of the Allies and the Central Powers battled each other.

Marne River

a World War I battle in northwestern France where the Allies defeated the Germans in 1918

Eastern Front

a stretch of battlefield along the German and Russian border

Tsar Nicholas II

Last emperor (tsar) of Russia

Propaganda

Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause.

new women

career-oriented women in western Europe and the United States in the 1920s

Gallipolli

Peninsula south of Istanbul; site of decisive 1915 Turkish victory over Australian and New Zealand forces under British command during World War I.

Treaty of Versailles

Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.

Woodrow Wilson

President of the United States and the leading figure at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. He was unable to persuade the U.S. Congress to ratify the Treaty of Versailles or join the League of Nations.

Georges Clemenceau

French statesman who played a key role in negotiating the Treaty of Versailles (1841-1929)

David Lloyd George

Britain's prime minister at the end of World War I whose goal was to make the Germans pay for the other countries' staggering war losses

Armistice

an agreement made by opposing sides in a war to stop fighting for a certain time; a truce.

Self-determination

the right of people to choose their own form of government