History-Final Module 25 World War One

Loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality

Nationalism

A policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army always prepared for war.

Militarism

was the Kaiser of Germany at the time of the First World War reigning from 1888-1918. He pushed for a more aggressive foreign policy by means of colonies and a strong navy to compete with Britain. His actions added to the growing tensions in pre-1914 Europe.

Kaiser Wilhelm II

25% of the US population gets the flu. Hospitals and morgues run out of room, businesses shut down, and the economy comes to a screeching halt. Was a world pandemic.

1918 Influenza Pandemic

the treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans.

Treaty of Versailles

an international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations.

League of Nations

This is the Archduke of Austria who was assassinated by the Serbians in 1914. This was the main cause of the start of World War I. The countries' allies then joined the war against their allies' enemies.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

soldiers dug these trenches for protection against the new, dangerous weapons, especially the gas.

Trench Warfare/No Man's Land

NO MAN'S LAND

this is the space in b/t the opposing trenches.

Western Front

A line of trenches and fortifications in World War I that stretched without a break from Switzerland to the North Sea. Scene of most of the fighting between Germany, on the one hand, and France and Britain, on the other.

Eastern Front

a stretch of battlefield along the German and Russian border

Allies of WWI (Triple Entente)

Great Britain, France, and Russia, Serbia, later joined by the US.

Central Powers of WWI

Germany, Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria

Woodrow Wilson's 14 points

Wilson's plan for a "just peace" at the end of the World War One

Armenian Genocide

The Ottoman Empire organized the deportation of the Armenians and over a million were murdered or starved - one of the first genocides of the 20th centuries.