social studies quiz

militarism

• the belief in a country

• 4 main causes of world war 1

types of weapons aquired

• artillary

• canons

• machine guns

• poison gas

• tanks

• u boats (under water boats)

• airplanes

• barbed wire

what were airplanes used for

spying and surveillance

Alliances

• Germany and Austria-Hungary

• Russia and Serbians

• Belgium and Britain

• France Russia and Britain

Germany and Austria-Hungary connections

shared a common culture and language

Russians and Serbians connections

slavic bond

belgium and britain connection

trading parters

france russia and britain connections

political alliance

Alliances

agreements among countries to cooperate with, protect, and defend one another

imperialism

• a nation or country working to create an empire

• this occurs when a nation increases it’s world power, influence, and territory internationally through military force or diplomacy

nationalism

• extreme blind pride in ones country

• extreme desire in national independence

Assassination leads to war

• occurs in the capital city Sarajevo in Bosnia

• Archduke Franz Ferdinand (heir to thr throne

• Assassinated by the terrorist group the Black Hand

The Black Hand

• group of young Serbian nationalists

• Goal is to unite all Slabs in southern Europe

• Plans an Assassination

Plan of the Black Hand

• murder archduke Franz Ferdinand who is heir to the emperor of Austria Hungary

why did the Black Hand plan this

Austria-Hungary will be terrified and will grant Bosnia sovereignty

Goal of the Black Hand

Bosnia can join a larger Slavic Nation

June 14th in Sarajevo

• Planned parade route to City Hall is shared in the news and alerted the assassins as to his whereabouts

• 8 members of the black hand line the parade route prepared to kill

• Grenade is thrown and Franz Ferdinand is safe

• Archduke leaves city hall and visits injured people in hospital

• Driver makes a wrong turn, stops car and Princip shoots

• Franz Ferdinand and wife Sophie die

Gavrilo Princip

• 19 year old member of the Black Hand

• shoots archduke and wife

• 2015 Serbia creates a state dedicated to Gavrilo Princip

sequence of key events leading to outbreak of war

• A serbian assassinates an Austrian in Bosnia 1914

• Austria-Hungary blames all of serbia

• Austria-Hungary wants to declare war but they don’t have a strong military so germany promises them a “blank check”

• Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia

• Russia mobilizes for war against Austria-Hungary

• Germany sees war with Russia unavoidable and declares war on Russia

• 2 days later Germany declares war on France and is fighting a war on 2 fronts

The Schlieffen Plan

• germany needs a plan to fight a war on 2 fronts

• plan is based on speed

• french will expect invasion through Alsace Lorraine but germany will move through Belgium to get to france

• take paris and france will surrender

• germany defeats the Russian army

The First Battle of the Marne

• on September 6th, 1914 French engage the German army at the First Battle of the Marne

• The British arrive and join forces with the French to defeat the Germans

• The German forces are stopped at what becomes the Western Front

The Battle of the Somme

• July 1 - November 18th 1916

• Deadliest battle of the war

• British fired off 1.6 million shells

• 1.6 million shells did little damage to German

• British walked confidentely through norman’s land towards German lines

• Largest British loss in the history of the British empire

• Battle is a stalemate with 1.1 million casualties

The battle of Verdun

• February 21 1912-December 18 1916

• Germany intends to make this a war of attrition

• Battle is a stalemate with over 700,000 casualties

Third Battle of Ypres

• July 31 - November 6th 1917

• Town of Ypres is located in Belgium

• Heaviest rain in 30 tears turns soil into march, clogging riffles and stopping tanks

• another stalemate with 325,000 Allied and 260,000 German Casualties

Chlorine Gas

• Suffocating can last for days

• Bronchitis or pneumonia can develop

Mustard Gas

• gets it’s name from yellow appearance and mustard-like smell

• Gas masks useless

• Causes blister

• can lead to lethal respiratory infections or deadly pneumonia

Arms Race

a race between hostile nations to accumulate or develop weapons, an ever escalation race or competition

Armed Peace

• describes a situation where nations are technically at peace but remain heavily armed

Mobilization

to prepare for war

Blank Check

an expression or metaphor meaning to extend one’s full support