World History

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Cards (36)

  • Triple Entente: Britain, France, and Russia
  • Triple Alliance: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy
  • Allied Powers: Britain, France, Italy, Japan, USA, USSR
  • Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire
  • 14-Points: Aims to establish a new order in Europe. To create peace. Made by President Woodrow Wilson.
  • Trench Warfare: Mustard Gas
  • The Battle of Verdun: Longest battle Feb 12- Dec 18 1916
  • Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand: Austria- Hungary, Led to the start of WW1.
  • Gavrilo Princip: assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
  • Bolsheviks: Led by Vladamir Lenin
  • 14 points: 12. Free press, 14. League of Nation
  • The Treaty of Versailles was signed on the 28th June 1919
  • The Treaty of Versailles: Germany lost 25,000 square miles.
  • The Treaty of Versailles: Germany lost 7 million people after borders were reconfigure
  • Fact: Germany charged $20 billion gold marks (5 billion USD)
  • Treaty of Brest- Litovsk: Between Russians and central powers
  • Georgia, Finland, and Ukraine get independence from treaty
  • Bolsheviks are radical social list
  • Baltic states also got to be their own country: Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and Poland (Poland is not a baltic state)
  • Self- determination: Right of people to govern their own nation
  • The big four dominate the peace talk
  • The Big 4: President Woodrow Wilson (US), Georges Clemenceau (France), Prime Minister David Lloyd Geroge, and Vittoria Orlando (Italy).
  • Czar Nicholas II: Signed Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
  • Lenin named city after him, Leningrad (Now St Petersburg)
  • Fact: 3rd Population was lost
  • 55 million no longer part of the Russian empire
  • Coal, oil, and iron; gone
  • Jan 18, 1919: Peace talk conference in Paris, France
  • Key term: Bloody Sunday
  • Battle of Verdun: Longest battle of WW1
  • Battle of Verdun takes place? In France
  • Battle of Verdun: Battle between France and Germany
  • For Douamont: Germans wanted to overtake it
  • Battle of Verdun: Germany fired 2 million shots on the first day
  • Battle of Verdun: 800,000 casualties (dead) from the day
  • Battle of Verdun: The US fought in war with 38 pilots (to help the french)