History Questions

acronym used to remember the long and short term causes of WWI

Mass execution and imprisonment of the Christian Armenians in the Ottoman Turkish Empire. The Ottoman Empire believed the Armenians were aiding the Russians in WWI, so they started to systematically kill them. Led to the death of 1.5 million Christian Armenians.

Americans who became disillusioned with society after World War I

an international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations. Did not last.

A situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible

In World War I the alliance of Germany and Austria-Hungary and other nations allied with them in opposing the Allies.

Restricting the amount of food and other goods people may buy during wartime to assure adequate supplies for the military

A military alliance between Great Britain, France, and Russia in the years preceding World War I.

The peace conference that decided the terms of WWI peace and Treaty of Versailles.

Also known as Austria-Hungary, or the Hapsburg Empire, as it was ruled by the Habsburg monarchy from 1867 to 1918. Austria-Hungary extended over most of central Europe. It was composed the modern day countries of Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic, as well as parts of present-day Poland, Romania, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

term that refers to the state of unrest in the Balkan peninsula in the period leading up to WWI

A line of trenches and fortifications in World War I that stretched without a break from Switzerland to the North Sea. Scene of most of the fighting between Germany, on the one hand, and France and Britain, on the other.

A region in Germany designated a demilitarized zone by the Treaty of Versailles

name originally given to the First World War (1914-1918).

Serbian nationalist/terrorist group responsible for the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand which resulted in the start of World War I.

Archduke Ferdinand, the Austrian crown prince, was murdered on June 28, 1914, by a Serbian nationalist while visiting Sarajevo, Bosnia. Germany urged Austria-Hungary to fight and they went to war against Serbia triggering alliances and starting The Great War

the events that led to an event; includes the time period and larger historical trends as well as causes

Western Europe's unkind nickname for the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a name based on the leaderships' inability to prevent or deal with internal and external problems

warfare using chemical agents to kill or injure or incapacitate the enemy

What type of government did Stalin install in the nations of Eastern Europe to create the "buffer-zone" he wanted?