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| a non-binding agreement that two countries have to follow common policies. Britain and France and Britain and Russia all sign this type of document. |
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| the glorification od the military. this helped the countries collect men to build up their armies and navies quickly. |
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| were two borders that France had lost in the Franco-Prussian War and were ones that they hoped to regain. They wanted it back from the Germans in Prussia. |
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| is a final set of demands. Austria sent this to Serbia. It said that it would punish any Serbian that was responsible for the killing of Franz Ferdinand. also that Serbia must end all anti-Austrian agitation. Serbia denied this. |
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| is when a country prepares its' forces for war. Russia did this much quicker than the Germans expected and threw them off balance. |
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| is the act of not going to either side of the war. Belgium was this in WWI. first, it was Italy. |
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| was the German Plan where Germany would move against France first because they believed that the Russians would take a long time to mobilize. They would attack France by going through Belgium(a neutral country). The Belgians fought back and even though they didn't win, they slowed down the German army so that the Russians could have time to get there. The Russians, contrary to German belief, mobolized quickly. This made the Germans pay attention to the eastern front and not the Western. Then France and Britain pushed back the Germans to the Marne River. Then, for the next four years, the First World War was one of stalemate. |
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| is when neither side is able to defeat each other. This happened in WWI, mainly because of the trenches(these made it difficult to conquer land) |
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| was a gas that was first used in WWI. This would blind it's victims, and choked them while causing painful burms and blisters. They eventually created masks that blocked some of the harmful effects of this but they were not totally reliable. sometimes, poison gas would wound the people throwing it because it would float back to the thrower. |
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| were large gas filled balloons that the Germans used to bomb the English coast. |
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| was a nickname for "unterseeboot", or the German word for submarine. these did much damage to the Allies. they sank ships that carried important supplies to Britain. |
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| was an important strait that connected the Black Sea to the Mediterranean. The Turks cut off the Russian supply lines. |
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| was a British man that was sent to support the Arab revlot. the revolt was in reaction to the Ottoman empire controlling the Arabs. |
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| was a Arab nationalist who called for revolt against Ottoman rule. |
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| Countries in the Triple Alliance |
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| Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy. |
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| Countries in the Triple Entente |
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| Russia France and later Britain |
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| Russia, France,Britain and Italy. |
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Germany declared war on Russia
Germany declared war on France
Britain declared war on Germany
Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary and Germany. |
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| is when a country's whole economy focuses on the war. all of the nation's resources go to war. many countries claimed this in WWI. |
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| commonly called the "draft". this is when young men are supposed to be ready for military service. Britain had this in WWI. |
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| were military supplies or raw materials used to make military supplies. This did not include food and clothing. The British set up one of these to stop the German goods from reaching Germany. |
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| was a British liner that was going up the coast of Ireland when German boats sank it. This killed many people, including some Americans. This was one of the reasons that the Americans entered the war. |
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| the spreading of ideas to promote a cause or damage an opposing cause. This was used to encourage military cooperation during wartime. |
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| horrible acts committed against innocent people. British and French press created tales of these that the Germans committed. |
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| was President Wilson's list of terms that he thought would end the war and stop future wars. In this, he expressed his wanted freedom of the seas, free trade, large scale reductions of arms, and an end to secret treaties. He also called for a League of Nations. |
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| the right of people to choose their own government. Wilson favored this. |
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| an agreement to end fighting. The new German government wanted this, after their armies had been exhausted. The one for WWI was signed at 11am on November 11,1918. |
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| is the spread of a disease over a large area. This happened with influenza in 1918. |
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| are payments for a war. Germans had to pay these in World War I. |
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| were people who wanted to make extreme changes and wanted to make a new social order in the chaos. Many of these who did this were in Russia, Austria-Hungary, Germany and the Ottoman Empire. |
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| was the idea that a system should be set up in which a group of nations act as one to resolve issues and promote peace. the league of nations was based on this idea. |
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| were territories that were administered by Western Powers. Britain and France gained thses over German colonies in Africa. |
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| the group of Russian working class people who started the Russian Revolution |
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| are councils of workers and soldiers in Russia. |
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| was a brutal police force that the Communists had started. |
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| the Communist Party officials, these people kept a close watch of the Red Army officers. |
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