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| Desire to unite all people with a common language, race, and culture under one gov't |
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| The move to establish overseas empires; this resulted in increased rivalries |
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| Glorification of and reliance on armed strength |
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| Officials who exercised influence over civilian politicians |
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| Financial result of the race to build military strength |
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| Hidden, nonpublic agreements among nations to help each other |
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| Overseas territories where European nations competed |
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| Ordering of reserve military forces into active service |
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| European nations engaged in this race to build their strength |
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| Formal agreements among countries to help each other if attacked |
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| Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy |
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| Members of the Triple Alliance |
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| A friendly agreement or understanding among nations |
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| "The powder keg of Europe" |
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| the Berlin to Baghdad Railroad |
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| Route Germany proposed to build through the Balkans |
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| joint borders and a central position on the continent |
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| Two main strengths of the Triple Alliance |
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| control of the seas, surrounding the Triple Alliance nations |
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| Two main strengths of the Triple Entente |
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| hostile nations to E and W, hostility btw. Austria-Hungary & Italy |
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| Two main weaknesses of the Triple Alliance |
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| being entente and not alliance, friction btw. Britain and Russia |
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| Two main weaknesses of the Triple Entente |
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| naval strength, colonial expansion, world trade |
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| Three areas in which Germany challenged Great Britain |
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| Site of the 1914 assassination that triggered the war |
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| The assassin was a nationalist of this ethnic group |
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| Country whose heir to the throne was assassinated |
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| Germany's response to Russian troop mobilization |
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| Nation that wanted to create a Slavic state |
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| Slavic nation, a major power, that supported Serbia's Pan-Slavism |
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| Leader assassinated in 1914 |
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| The final terms offered for a settlement, presented to Austria to Serbia |
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| Russia's action to prepare to defend Serbia |
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| Neutral country invaded by Germany |
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| Event that brought Great Britain into the war |
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| Far East nation that declared war as Britain's ally |
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| Triple Alliance member that remained neutral at first |
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| Empire that joined Germany and Austria in November 1914 |
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| Nation that presented Serbia with an ultimatum |
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| Germany's new leader in the 1890s |
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| to knock France out of the war quickly |
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| Germany's reason for invading a neutral country |
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| Name for the Serb assassin at Sarajevo |
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| Balkan nation that entered the war as Germany's ally in 1915 |
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| The Turks kept Russia's southern fleet bottled up in the sea |
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| Austrian territory Serbia wanted; where the assassination took place |
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| New form of chemical warfare |
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| Soldiers protected themselves from machine-gun fire and artillery in these. |
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| Result each side expected in the summer of 1914 |
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| the Allied Powers (or the Allies) |
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| Britain and its partners in the war |
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| being citizen (non-professional) armies |
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| How the armies of World War I were different from earlier European armies |
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| Sea blockaded by the British to cut off Germany |
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| British passenger liner sunk by German submarines |
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| unrestricted submarine warfare |
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| German policy that drew the United States into the war |
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| "to make the world safe for democracy" |
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| Why the United States entered the war, according to Woodrow Wilson |
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| Event that caused Russia to drop out of the war |
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| to observe troop movements and drop explosives |
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| Two uses for airplanes in the war |
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| the First Battle of the Marne |
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| Battle that ended Germany's hope of a quick victory |
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| The war's only large naval battle |
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| Site of deadly but inconclusive monthlong fight in France |
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| Secret message that outraged Americans |
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| The battle to open up the Dardanelles Strait |
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| Forest battle that forced the Germans back to their border |
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| American president who led the United States at the peace conference |
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| Agreement to stop fighting until a treaty could be written |
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| Site of the peace conference |
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| Germany lost all of these possessions under the treaty |
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| Group that suffered almost as much loss of life as the armed forces during the war |
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| Woodrow Wilson's statement of Allied aims for the war |
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| Britain, France, Italy, and the United States |
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| The Big Four of the peace conference |
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| The Big Four became the Big Three when this country left the peace conference angry |
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| Germany had to agree to these payments for war damages. |
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| that it alone was guilty for causing the war |
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| By signing the treaty, Germany admitted this. |
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| The Dual Monarchy split to become these two separate nations. |
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| Nation that lost more territory than Germany did |
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| International organization created by the peace treaties |
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| Major country that never joined the League |
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| Financial problem facing countries that fought the war |
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| The two countries with especially severe property damage |
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| the World Court (Permanent Court of International Justice) |
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| The new international court |
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| Ottoman, German, Austro-Hungarian, and Russian |
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| Three empires that had fallen by 1919 |
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| Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia |
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| Two entirely new nations created out of the Old Dual Monarchy |
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| to promote international cooperation and to maintain peace |
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| The two main aims of the League, according to its covenant |
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