World War One

Ruler of Great Britain

King George V

Reign of George V

1910-1936

Ruler of Germany

Kaiser Wilhelm II

Reign of Kaiser Wilhelm

1888-1918

Germany before 1870

Collection of small states, united in Franco-Prussian war

Ruler of Russia

Tsar Nicholas II

Reign of Tsar Nicholas II

1894-1917

Ruler of Austria-Hungary

Emperor Franz Joseph II

Reign of Emperor Franz Joseph

1848-1916

Ruler of France

President Raymond Poincare

‘Reign’ of President Poincare

1913-1920

British release HMS Dreadnought

February 10th, 1906

The Schillan Plan

German 1905 plan to speed invade France via Belgium in order to prevent two-front war. Guaranteed big war.

Plan 17

French 1913 plan to launch all-out attack on Alsace and Lorraine, then cross Rhine and go to Berlin.

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Triple Alliance

Germany - Austria-Hungary - Italy

Triple Entente

Great Britain - France - Russia

Gallipole Plan

Failed 1916 plan to take Ottoman land

*year* successful British campaign in Palestine

1917

Laurence of Arabia

Recruited by Allies to start Arab revolt (1916-1918)

Sykes-Picot Agreement

Divides the Middle-East among Britain and France

*area* East Africa Campaign

750,00 square miles

*african campaign* British troops/carriers death toll

105,000

*african campaign, german side* Civilian death toll

300,000

Total death toll (all of WWI)

15-20 million

Military death toll (all of WWI)

10 million

Catalyst for Russian Revolution

World War One

*year* Tsar Nicholas II abdicates

1917

Soviet

small ‘grassroots’ organizations that speak for workers

‘Whites’ in Russian civil war

Tsarists, landlords, disaffected socialists, U.S., Britain, France, Japan

Stalin’s values

Industrialization, social equality, collectivism

Kulaks

rich peasants, were deported or killed

Povolzhye Famine

1921-1922, 5 million die

States coming out of Austria-Hungary

Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Yugoslavia, etc.

*year* Treaty of Versailles

1919

*unemployment rates* Great Depression

30% (German and American)

Fall of Ottoman: Britain’s piece

Southern Mesopotamia

Fall of Ottoman: France’s piece

Lebanon/Syria

Fall of Ottoman: Russia’s piece

Armenia

*context/catalyst* Armenian genocide

Losses in war (Battle at Sarikamis) blamed on Armenians. Resentment had been building (loss against Balkans, Armenian revolutionary spirit)

*death toll* Armenian Genocide

600,000 to 1.2 million

*year* Armenian independence

1991