1. By: Ayla Mulvey

2.  The Allied Forces formerly the Triple Entente were Great Britain, France and Russia.

3.  Incorporated territory into an existing political unit, such as a city or country. The United States annexed Hawaii, and Austria- Hungry annexed Bosnia.

4.  The heir to the Hapsburg throne of Austria- Hungary, assassinated by Gavrilo Princip on June 28 th 1914. His assassination started World War One.

5.  A truce or agreement to end fighting

6.  They began as a small faction of a Marxist party called the Russian Social Democrats, who came under leadership of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin

7.  Bulgaria entered the war on the side of the Central Powers; Germany, Austria- Hungary and Turkey

8.  a series of widespread unofficial ceasefires that took place along the Western Front around Christmas 1914

9.  Russian for “Caesar”, the title used by Russian emperors

10.  A large political unit or state, usually under a single leader, that controls many people or territories

11.  In 1867 Austria enacted a constitution that set up a parliamentary system with ministerial responsibility, Francis Joseph ignored the system and appointed and dismissed his own ministers and issued decrees. In power from1848-1916, nearly 70 years.

12.  The Allies tried to open a Balkan front by landing forces at Gallipoli which is southwest of Constantinople

13.  A 19-year-old Bosnian Serb who was a conspirator & member of the Black Hand (a Serbian terrorist organization that wanted Bosnia to be free of Austria-Hungary)  assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.

14.  An association of countries established in 1919 by the Treaty of Versailles to promote international cooperation and achieve international peace and security

15.  British passenger ship that was sunk by a German submarine in May 1915

16.  Reliance in military strength

17.  You should know what this is by now.

18.  Refusal to take sides or become involved in wars between other nations

19.  Began his rule in 1894 believing that the absolute power of the czars should be preserved. Assassinated along with his family in 1918.

20.  Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause

21.  A payment made to the victor by the vanquished to cover the costs of a war

22.  Also called the Bolshevik Revolution or the October Revolution, it played a very important role in world history and also a major role in the history of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

23.  promise given by the German government to the United States of America on May 4th 1916 in response to US demands relating to the conduct of the First World War.  See PowerPoint for more details

24.  See WWI summary powerpoint

25.  Fighting from ditches protected by barbed wire

26.  a type of naval warfare in which submarines sink merchant and other ships without warning

27.  The leader of the Bolsheviks, under his direction, the Bolsheviks became a party dedicated to violent revolution

28.  A war based on wearing the other side down by constant attacks and heavy losses

29.  His basic plan for a peace settlement that he believed justified the enormous military struggle being waged

30.  President of the United States during World War I (March 4,1913- March 3,1921)  said that all men and women “who remain to till the soil and man the factories are no less a part of the army than the men beneath the battle flags”

31.  1917 diplomatic proposal from the German Empire to Mexico to make war against the United States, a secret communication from German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmerman to the German Minister to Mexico, von Eckhardt  In it, Germany offered Mexico all the land from Texas to California that it had lost in the Mexican American War of 1846- 1848 See next slide for NY Times headline