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AP European History Questions and Answers Already Passed Russian German Reinsurance Treaty ✔✔Wilhelm didn't renew this agreement between Russia and Germany causing Russia to feel very insulted ... Allied Powers ww1 ✔✔Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy (later), and US (later) Central Powers ww1 ✔✔Germany, Austria Hungary, Ottoman Empire Morocco Crisis ✔✔After the French received Morocco, Germany demanded an international conference- German bullying forced England and France closer. Germany gained nothing. Algeciras Conference ✔✔International conference called to deal with the Moroccan question. French get Morocco, Germany gets nothing, isolated. Result is U.S, Britain, France, Russia see Germany as a threat. Balkan Crisis ✔✔Austro-Hungaria invade Balkans to put down Nationalistic sentiments there and in their own country. Russia gets involved because Serbia asked. Germany comes in and forces Russia to back down Balkan War ✔✔Serbia, Greece, Bulgaria took Macedonia from the Ottomans in 1912. Serbia then fought Bulgaria in the second Balkan War in 1913 Austria intervened to stop the war. These wars were mostly territorial and were a precursor to World War I. Black Hand ✔✔A terrorist group that believes that Sebians will be equal to Russia They shoot the Archduke Ferdinand or Austria which makes the Austrians pressure Germany to start moblizing a war effort Schlieffen Plan ✔✔Attack plan by Germans, proposed by Schliffen, lightning quick attack against France. Proposed to go through Belgium then attack France, Belgium resisted, other countries took up their aid, long fight, used trench warfare. Gallipoli Campaign ✔✔Allied plan to take a peninsula near the Dardanelles to lock the Ottomans out of the war and make an easy travel route to supply Russia. This was a huge failure for the Allies Naval Front during WW1 ✔✔British wipe out the entire German navy in 6 months and then blockade Gernmany so they starve Trench Warefare ✔✔characterized fighting on the western front of WW1. soldiers fought in rows of trenches dug out of the earth. Little Movement. Lots of rats, maggots, flies and rotting bodies. Eastern Front ✔✔in World War I, the region along the German-Russian border where Russians and Serbs battled Germans, Austrians, and Turks Armenian Genocide ✔✔The Ottoman Empire eradicates 2 million Armenians in order to gain support from their country. They use the excuse that they are in conspiring with the Russians. Hitler is inspired by this genocide Lawrence of Arabia ✔✔An extremely talented linguist in the British Empire who convinces Arab Nations to revolt against the Ottoman Empire by using his attractiveness. He claims that he never knew that the British Empire was going to make these nations British protectorates Protectorate ✔✔A country or territory with its own internal government but under the control of an outside power. The outside power can extract resources Ghandi ✔✔Encourages Indian people to sign up for WW1 so that they can potentialy gain independence from Britain. Indian people also join because it brings honor to their caste and they have a strong sense of duty to the King. This causes the Brits to have a very multi-cultural fighting force Zimmerman Note ✔✔This note was suposidly sent to Mexico and intercepted by the British in which Germany says that if Mexico will attack America, they will give Mexico parts of America. This is used to justify America's entry into WW1 Shell Shock ✔✔Medical condition caused by prolonged exposure to the distressing experiences of trench warfare. Fourteen Points ✔✔The war aims outlined by President Wilson in 1918, which he believed would promote lasting peace; called for self-determination, freedom of the seas, free trade, end to secret agreements, reduction of arms and a league of nations. League of Nations ✔✔A world organization established in 1920 to promote international cooperation and peace. It was first proposed in 1918 by President Woodrow Wilson, although the United States never joined the League. Essentially powerless, it was officially dissolved in 1946. Treaty of Versailles ✔✔Created by the leaders victorious allies Nations: France, Britain, US, and signed by Germany to help stop WWI. The treaty 1)stripped Germany of all Army, Navy, Airforce. 2) Germany had to rapair war damages(33 billion) 3) Germany had to acknowledge guilt for causing WWI 4) A lot of Germany land is given to the British. Germany agrees to this because they are starving from the British blockade Scottish Women's Hospitals ✔✔Set up 14 hospitals on all non-British Allied Fronts. Was staffed by 600 British female volunteers and were very badass. Some even joined the Serbian infantry and won decorations for their bravery Weimar Republic ✔✔The Weimar Republic is a name given by historians to the federal republic and semi-presidential representative democracy established in 1919 in Germany to replace the imperial form of government. The Sykes Picot Agreement ✔✔Guarentees that British and France will own protectorates all over the Ottoman Empire Fora Sandes ✔✔Created the Scottish Women's Hospitals and was decorated for bravery with an officers commission when she joined the Serbian infantry Arab Revolt ✔✔Makes an agreement with the british, arabs revolt with help of british against the ottomans, makes 1 arab nation, king of Syria=faisal. Revolt from Mecca against the ottomans Nicholas II ✔✔Last tsar of Russia, he went to the frontlines in WWI to try to rally the troops, but was forced to abdicate after his wife made horrible decisions under the influence of Rasputin. Trans-Siberian Railroad ✔✔constructed in 1870s to connect European Russia with the Pacific; completed by the end of the 1880s; brought Russia into a more active Asian role. Czarina Alexandria ✔✔Granddaughter of Queen Victoria, Czarina married to Nicholas II. She is easily influenced by Rasputin Mensheviks ✔✔One faction of the Social Democrat Political Party. They want to constitutionally overthrow the Czar and establish a new republic [Show More]

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