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WWI - APEH
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10th Grade
03/10/2014

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Dual Alliance of 1879
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Bismarck's alliance with Austria-Hungary
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Triple Alliance
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Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy
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Triple Entente
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Alliance of France, Russia, Great Britain
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Black Hand
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Secret society from Serbia whose goal was to unite all South Slavic people. Credited with assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in June 1914
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German Blank Check
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Unwavering German support for Austrian government to end South Slavic separatism / independence movement
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Schlieffen Plan
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German military strategy that called for a holding action against Russia while German forces moved thru Belgium to knock out France.
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Battle of Verdun
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February 1916; Petain's French forces held back German army who eventually withdrew.10 months long, 330,000 German's died, 350,000 French died.
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Battle of Tannenberg
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Russian disaster
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BAttle of the Somme
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July - October 1916; Allied offensive to break thru German line; 60,000 Brits died 1st day; 400,000 total, French lost 200,000, Germans lost 500,000. Nothing of value was gained.
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Sinking of the Lusitania
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May 1915 off Irish Coast; 1200 people killed by German torpedo on this British ship carrying munitions. 120 Americans on board.
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Zimmerman Telegram
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January 1917; German effort to secure Mexico's support if U.S. entered war; Germany would help Mexico "regain its lost territories"
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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
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March 3, 1918; Bolsheviks signed treaty with Germany acknowledging independence of Poland, Ukraine, Finland, Baltic Provinces
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Weimar Republic
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The liberal German government established at the end of WWI and destroyed by Hitler in the 1930s
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Fourteen Points
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President Wilson's plan to settle WWI and guarantee peace; Freedom of the seas, self-determination, League of Nations
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Reparations
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Payments and transfers of property and equipment that Germany was forced to make under the Treaty of Versailles (1919)
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"War guilt" clause
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Written into the Versailles Treaty to justify reparations; Germany accepted responsibility for all damage resulting from war imposed by them
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League of Nations
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Wilson's idea of international organization for peace
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Pogrom
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Organized persecution of Jews especially in Eastern Europe
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Russification
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Forcible assimilation to Russian culture under Tsar Alexander II (1881-1894); Poles, Ukranians, Lithuanians, Caucasus's, Muslims in C. Asia
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Bolsheviks
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"Majority faction" despite being the minority; Leninist wing of the Marxist Party. After 1917 = Communist Party
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"Soviets"
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Workers council during 1905 & 1917 Russian Revolutions and part of the structure of government in the Soviet Union
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Duma
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Russia's legislative assembly in the years prior to 1917
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"Bloody Sunday"
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January 1905 in St. Petersburg; 200,000 peaceful workers in front of Tsar's winter palace assembled and were shot on by troops.
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Rasputin
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Holy man to Tsarina Alexandra who believed he had supernatural and prophetic powers. He influenced appointments to high office
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Kulak
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Wealthy Russian peasant labeled by Stalin during period of collectivization as a "class enemy"
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Five-Year Plan
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Rapid and massive industrialization of Russia under the direction of the state initiated in the late 1920s
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