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Triple Alliance
Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy alliance formed to protect against France in 1880s
Contributors to Start of WWI
Feuds between European countries, industrialism, rise in nationalism, military build-up and powerful weapons, power-grabbing alliances
France-Russian Alliance
formed to keep Germany in check
Schlieffen Plan
Germany’s planned attack on France through Belgium (neutral country)
Triple Entente
Britain, France, Russia - later joined by Japan (and Italy when they switched sides in 1915)
Event that started WWI
Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip - Austria-Hungary declaring war on Serbia led to all allied groups getting involved
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Archduke of Austria-Hungary
Central Powers Alliance
Ottoman Empire, Germany, Austria-Hungary
How many countries joined the WWI?
over 40 - most due to colonial ties and alliances
Why did US join WWI?
Zimmermann telegram
Secret telegram between German diplomats saying Mexico could regain territory taken by US if they joined forces
Isolationism
neutrality, focusing on internal affairs instead
WWI End
Germany and Central Powers gave up in November 1918
WWI Effects
Treaty of Versailles
signed in 1919 - official end to WWI
Treaty of Versailles Main Points
President Wilson’s Fourteen Points
more focused on future peace and workable balance of power - but was disapproved of by Britain and France
League of Nations
President Wilson called for formation of council to preserve peace and establish humanitarian goals, but was not widely accepted (even by US)
Czar Nicholas II
Russian czar who was forced to resign in 1917 over growing resentment among working class
Alexander Kerensky
established a provisional government in Russia after czar Nicholas II - ineffective because it disagreed with the local councils, soviets, who represented workers, peasants, and soldiers
Bolsheviks
Led by Marxist leader Vladimir Lenin - Socialist party that was backed by the Russian working class
April Theses
issues by Vladimir Lenin - demanded peace, land for peasants, power to soviets
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
1918 - armistice with Germany - ceded part of western Russia to Germany so they dropped out of WWI
Red Army
Bolshevik military force under Leon Trotsky to defeat counterrevolutions against Russian leadership
What happened when Ottoman Empire joined Central Powers in WWI?
A movement to reclaim Turkish culture occurred and spawned a genocide of Armenian minority and a shift to Turkish nationalism
Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk)
Led successful military against invading Greece and overthrew Ottoman Empire to become first president of Turkey (set up the foundations of democracy before resigning and allowing democracy to happen)
What did the Soviets do when they dropped out of WWI?
Focused on their own domestic problems - Lenin instituted the New Economic Policy
New Economic Policy (Vladimir Lenin)
1920s - allowed farmers to sell portions of grain for profit - successful, but Lenin died and new Communist leader, Joseph Stalin discarded it
Five-Year Plans (Joseph Stalin)
taking over private farms for state-owned enterprises (collectivization) - really was totalitarianism
USSR
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics led by Joseph Stalin - relied on terror (secret police, bogus trials, assassinations)
What led to The Great Depression (1930s)?
War was expensive and Europe owed a lot of money to America, who had given out loans to a lot of countries and weren’t getting them back
Who has hit the hardest by the Great Depression?
US and Germany - 1/3 of workforce unemployed
Fascism
Political structure with goal to destroy will of individual in favour of the people
Fascism in Italy
First fascist state - founded by Benito Mussolini in 1919
Blackshirts
Fought socialist and communist organizations to win over factory and land owners
Weimar Republic
German emperor was abdicated after WWI so a conservative democratic republic took over
Nationalist Socialist Party (Nazis)
Mussolini’s success in Italy was influencing Germany so Nazi party was formed to help the economic crisis in Germany and rose to power in the 20s
Reichstag
Weimar Republic elected body - rejected by the people due to the economic crisis in Germany
Adolf Hitler
became head of Nazi Party in the 20s - believed in extreme nationalism and superior race - believed the Aryan race was the most superior race
Third Reich
Hitler’s fascist rule in Germany from 30s to 40s
How did Hitler go against the Treaty of Versailles?
Dictatorship in Spain
Spain was in turmoil after fall of Spanish monarchy - nationalist army under General Francisco Franco took control of large parts of Spain
Munich Conference of 1938
Hitler, Mussolini, Neville Chamberlin of England
Hitler’s Invasions that Led to Start of WWII
Nazi-Soviet Pact
Germans and Soviets signed a pact to stay out of each other’s countries and agreed to divide rest of Europe’s land between them
How did Japan gain more power?
How did Japan get involved in WWII
Alliance with Germany and 1937 war with China (which eventually moved into WWII
WWII Timeline
1939: War officially declared against Germany - allied countries get involved
1940: Hitler’s blitzkrieg technique got control of Poland (half with USSR), Holland, Belgium, France - tried taking over Britain but were unsuccessful
1941: Germany invaded Greece breaking their deal with Soviet Union, so they invaded the Soviet Union too - Japan bombs Pearl Harbour in Hawaii so US declares war on Japan and joins WWII
1943: US and Britain take control of Italy
1944: US, Britain, and Canada land on French beaches (D-day) and eventually liberate France
1945: Allied forces close in on Germany and end Europe war when Hitler commits suicide
End of WWII in Pacific
US drops atomic bomb on city of Hiroshima in Japan - when Japan refused to surrender, they dropped another bomb on Nagasaki, causing them to surrender
Battle of Britain
Airstrike war between Germany and Britain in attempt for Germany to capture Britain
Winston Churchill
Britain’s PM during WWII that prevented Britain from being captured
The Holocaust
Millions of Jews under German control were rounded up and killed in concentration camps to create the Aryan race
WWII Peace Settlement
US and Soviet Union became superpowers and Germany and Japan forced to demilitarize
Marshall Plan
US movements to rebuild Europe (only accepted by Western Europe nations) and rebuilt their economies in less than a decade
WWII Causing Decline in Colonialism
War inspired native populations to rise against their oppressors
WWII Causing Changes in Women’s Rights
Women took over the workforce while men were fighting - after the war, many women kept their jobs
United Nations
established in 1945, to prevent break out of another great war - goal was to mediate and intervene in international disputes
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Published by UN in response to Holocaust
Cold War
US or Soviet Union did not want each other to spread its influence beyond their borders, so they began strategizing how to contain each other - lasting for the next 50 years
Turkification
Turkish nationalistic push to unify ottoman people and become an independent state
Central Powers
Ottomans, Germany, Austria-Hungary
Russo-Japanese War
War between Japan and Russia for land, Japan wanted control
Bloody Sunday Massacre
Russian peasants protest in the square, shot without warning by the communist party, failure of government to see the needs of the people
Duma
representative government in Russia (mainly symbolic, doesn't have power)
October Manifesto
grants full rights to everyone in russia (all equal under the law)
proletariat
working class
Bolsheviks
group that overthrew the Romanovs and established a communist state in Russia (led by Lenin)
Rasputin
spiritual advisor who was beloved by the royal family, not liked by the common people/clergy
USSR
United Socialist Soviet Republic (communist state of Russia + its territories) led by bolsheviks
Sun Yat-Sen
educated in Hawaii, comes back to China and tries to establish a revolution to overthrow the Qing dynasty
Puyi
last emperor of China (child emperor)
Republic of China
democratic state of China after Qing dynasty, led by Kumointang
Kuomintang
leads the Republic of China
neocolonialism
"new colonialism" basically imperialism but they establish settler colonies
Porfirio Diaz
president of Mexico, gets overthrown for siding with industries and not people
Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata
general during the Mexican revolution, redistribute land to peasants
Soldaderas
women during the Mexican Revolution that would form their own groups and fight
Francisco Madero
takes over government after they overthrow Diaz, gets jailed eventually
Victoriano Huerta
dictator that replaced Madero, not liked by the US and Industries
Venustiano Carranza
puts a new enlightenment constitution in place
Causes of WWI
military, alliance system, Imperialism, nationalism
U-boats
submarines created by German Navy
Allied Powers
Britain, France, US/Russia
Pan-Slavic Movement
Slavic nations want their independence
Franco-Prussian War
France wants Prussia/Germany's land, get into a war
Archduke Francis Ferdinand
Austria, gets assassinated, causes the start of WWI
The Black Hand
makes the plan for the assassination of Ferdinand
Young Bosnians
takes the credit for the actual assassination of Ferdinand
July Crisis
countries all declare war on each other after the assassination, WWI starts (alliance system)
Total War
war is being fought at battlefield and at home
Chlorine Gas
chemical warfare, fills your lungs with water and kills you
Mustard Gas
chemical warfare, melts you from inside out
Schiefflin Plan
get WWI to a one front war, go after France, they move quicker than Germany expects so it backfires
Armistice WWI
Germany signs a treaty with France to end WWI, they'll end for whatever
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Germany signs with Russia, they leave each other alone, Russia exits
Spanish Flu Epidemic
starts 1920ish, kills 4% of the world population, carried from soldiers
PTSD
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, also shell shock, affects soldiers coming home from war, triggers, suicide rates jumps up
Flappers
party girls in the 1920's, challenge social norms of Women
Mother's Day
started by US government to get women back in the home
Mandate System
classified countries on what help they needed to become independent