Euro Chap 27 Review
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- Zimmerman Note
- telegram sent on march 2, helped convince wilson to go to war, germany would team up with mexico to attack u.s.
- Entente Cordial
- 1904, peace treaty between england and france, tested and held true when german invaded french colonies
- june 28, 1914
- date archduke ferdinand assassinated
- lawrence of arabia
- encourage arab princes to revolt against ottoman empire and along with british help managed to smash the ottoman empire once and for all in 1918
- Marne
- sept. 3, 1914. belgian and brittish defense against germans. france has surprisingly heroic victory. france was saved.
- Jutland
- main naval battle, ended in draw, june 1916
- Gavrilo Princep
- assassinated archduke franz ferdinand
- checka
- russia secret police, forerunner to kgb
- Black Hand
- Secret group that had multiple assassins ready to kill archduke
- Reinsurance Treaty
- treaty between bismarck and russia in 1887 so germany wouldn't have a 2 front war. wilhelm fired bismarck, removed treaty, russia allied with france
- Brest Litovsk
- march 1918. ended russia war with germany by conceding lithuania poland and finland.
- army order #1
- issued to all russian military forces as the provisional government was forming. orderered that all officers be stripped of their authority and power was palced in the hands of elected committees of soldiers.
- Verdun
- France vs. Germany, France led by Nivelle. Poorly defended, Germans lost, lost 700,000 men
- spanish flu
- pandemic that killed more people than the war
- lloyd george england, clemenceau france, orlando italy, wilson united states
- big four and countries
- Vons, Moltke, Hindenburg
- 3 German generals
- november 11, 1918
- date end of wwi, cease fire
- Von Schlieffen
- German chief of gen. staff. Plan to go through belgium, knock out france, then attack russia who would be slow to mobilize.
- latvia, lithuania, yugoslavia, czechoslovakia, estonia, poland, romania
- 7 new countries after war
- may 7, 1915
- date lusitania sank
- Grey
- brittish foreign secretary, predicts end of world "lamp of civilization"
- pershing
- led american expeditionary force, arrived in france on june 25, 1917
- april 6, 1917
- date u.s. enters war
- general Hague
- brittish gen. in wwi
- 2nd battle of the marne
- final phase of war, allied offense that tried to drive out germans.
- Ottoman Empire
- "sick man" of europe
- july 28, 1914
- date austria hungary declares war on serbia, starts wwi
- Somme
- Brittish/French ofensive, insignificant gains, lost 600,000 F/B soldiers and 500,000 germans. 1915
- wilhelm, hohenzollern, germany. nicholas, romanov, russia. franz joseph, hapsburg, austria.
- doomed dynasties and families
- Nivelle, Joffre, Petain
- 3 French Gens.
- kerensky
- leader of new gov in russia, refused to give nobles land to peasants