WWI - The First Year 1914

A military alliance between Great Britain, France, and Russia in WWI

Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Italy

an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority, formerly especially an emperor or empress.

international agreement concerning the national security of the contracted parties

the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand shot by 18-year-old Gavrillo Princip. The trigger action of WWI.

England + its colonies (Ireland, N. America, Asia, Africa, Caribbean)

Empire in which a dual monarchy was set up in order to bring compromise to a series of different ethnicities.

A Muslim empire based in Turkey that lasted from the 1300s to 1922.

An Empire that stretched from the Baltic Sea to the Pacific Ocean ruled by the Romanovs until 1907

authority in one royal person

authority in the people

Most fighting was done here. A line of trenches divided the Allied forces from the central powers between France and Germany.

Large scale, significant strategy, plans, operations or battles during a war

a region, narrow band of land where armies fight.

Longest front in WWI and saw some of the heaviest casualties. The primary battleground where Allied Russians fought central powers.

battles at sea

british ships blocking ships from reaching german ports. Seen as an unfair tactic against the rules of war.

Rules set out for wars so that wars don't become out of hand or inhumane

German U-boats (submarines) destroyed allied ships, military and civilians.

an action carried out during the conduct of a war that violates accepted international rules of war.

flag consisting of a piece of white cloth that is hoisted as a sign of surrender

During World War I, on Christmas Day both sides stopped fighting and joined together peacefully for Christmas.

Last emperor of Russia. assassinated during WWI

A group of revolutionary Russian Marxists who took control of Russia's government in November 1917

A theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state.

Leader of the Bolsheviks

President of the United States during WWI and kept the US neutral for the most part.

An agreement to stop fighting

July 28, 1914

Deep ditches used in battle for cover against enemy gunfire. built in a zigzag pattern

war materials, such as weapons

Biased presentation of information in order to promote an idea.

love of one's country

When Germany invaded France via Belgium

Allies invade German-controlled colonies and vice-versa.

German plan for quick defeat of France through Belgium

Russian ports in the Black Sea bombarded by the Ottoman Empire.

Britain responded in 1906 by launching this, the most powerful warship in the world

A mountain system in southeastern Europe between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea where the Russian invaded the Ottoman Empire

A group of islands in the southern Atlantic off the coast of Argentina where the Bristish sank German ships in 1914.

Japan joined on the Allied side, with the guarantee of taking over German Pacific colonies.

Part of Central Powers at the beginning later joined Allies because they promised them land from Austria-Hungary.

Was invaded by the Germans during the battles of Tannenberg and the Masurian lakes

Were German colonies that surrendered to Australian and New Zealand's allied troops.

Was very large but poorly supplied and led by untrained soldiers.

Well equipped with trained soldiers and sophisticated military tactics.

This battle was a German victory against the Russian, the Russians were crushed as they sent uncoded messages and were easily defeated.

The Germany weapon that would eventually help bring the United States in WWI

First naval battle in WWI. The British sink 3 German cruisers.

French plan to invade Germany through Alsace-Lorraine

The last major battle of WWI