History

• Triple Alliance


  Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy
• Triple Entente


  Alliance between France, Russia, and the United Kingdom
• Italy switched from the Triple Alliance to the Triple Entente during World War I
• Russia formed a defensive alliance with Serbia before World War I
• Blank Check


  German policy to support Austria-Hungary in its conflict with Serbia, leading to WWI
• Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand


  Event that directly triggered World War I
• Gavrilo Princip was the assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
• Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo
• Austria-Hungary issued an ultimatum to Serbia following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
• Schlieffen Plan


  Germany's plan to invade France at the start of WWI
• World War I began in 1914
• Trench warfare


  Primary form of combat on the Western Front
• Battle of Verdun


  Longest battle of World War I
• Battle of the Somme


  Battle that marked the first use of tanks in warfare
• The Spanish flu pandemic occurred during the final year of World War I
• The Russian Revolution began in 1917
• Vladimir Lenin led the Bolshevik Party during the Russian Revolution
• Provisional Government


  Russian parliament dissolved by the Bolsheviks
• Treaty of Brest-Litovsk


  Treaty that marked Russia's exit from World War I
• The immediate result of the October Revolution was the Bolsheviks seizing power
• Emmeline Pankhurst


  Founder of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)
• National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS)

  Advocated for peaceful and legal strategies for women's suffrage
• The Representation of the People Act was passed in the UK in 1918
• The Equal Franchise Act granted equal voting rights to all women over 21 in the UK in 1928
• Emily Davison, a British suffragette, died after being trampled by the king's horse in 1913
• Treaty of Versailles


  Treaty that officially ended World War I
• League of Nations


  International organization established after WWI to promote peace
• War Guilt Clause


  Clause of the Treaty of Versailles that placed full blame for the war on Germany
• Reparations


  Payments Germany was required to make as compensation for WWI
• The Austro-Hungarian Empire was dissolved following World War I
• Weimar Republic


  Democratic government established in Germany after WWI
• Hyperinflation


  Economic crisis that severely affected Germany in the early 1920s
• Dawes Plan


  Plan that helped stabilize the German economy by restructuring reparations payments
• The Weimar Republic signed the Treaty of Versailles in 1919
• Nazi Party


  Political party led by Adolf Hitler that rose to prominence during the late Weimar Republic
• Mein Kampf


  Book written by Adolf Hitler while in prison
• Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933
• Reichstag Fire


  Event in 1933 that allowed Hitler to consolidate power and suppress opposition
• Enabling Act


  Act that gave Hitler dictatorial powers by bypassing the Reichstag
• Führer


  Title assumed by Hitler in 1934, combining the roles of Chancellor and President