WWI study set
The Battle of Marne was fought to protect Paris and the people within it. The Germans were attempting to take over Paris so that France would be powerless against it's future attacks. Britain came to France's aid, becoming the Allied forces.
The Battle of Marne (1914)
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria.
The Central Powers
The Zimmermann Telegram, or Note, was significant to the history of World War I because it forced United States President Woodrow Wilson to reverse his initial position on American involvement in the European conflict and commit the United States to the war against Germany
The Zimmermann Telegram (1917)
The turning point of World War I was when the German torpedoed and sank the RMS Lusitania that was carrying American citizens. This played a part in the US involvement in the war
The sinking of the Lusitania (1915)
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed on March 3, 1918, between the new Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire), that ended Russia's participation in World War I.
Treaty of Brest Litovsk (1918)
Nicholas II's decision to take charge meant that he was increasingly seen by the Russian people as having personal responsibility for the military disasters inflicted on Russia.
Nicholas II takes charge of the troops
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Russian treaty with Germany
A operational plan that meant if a country was at war with one of them then they are at war with both of them. Germany planned on to push through france
Schlieffen Plan (1914)
Britain, France, Russia, Italy and the United States.
The Allies
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are shot to death by a Bosnian Serb nationalist during an official visit to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. The killings sparked a chain of events that led to the outbreak of World War I by early August.
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (1914)
World War I engagement in which the French repulsed a major German offensive. It was one of the longest, bloodiest, and most-ferocious battles of the war; French casualties amounted to about 400,000, German ones to about 350,000. Some 300,000 were killed.
Battle of Verdun (1916)
fought in northern France, was one of the bloodiest of World War One. For five months the British and French armies fought the Germans in a brutal battle of attrition on a 15-mile front. The aims of the battle were to relieve the French Army fighting at Verdun and to weaken the German Army.
Battle of the somme (1916)
Serbia; Blank check
Germany encouraged Austria to provoke war with __________ by issuing a promise called the ___________
a type of fighting where both sides build deep trenches as a defense against the enemy. ... During World War I, the western front in France was fought using trench warfare. By the end of 1914, both sides had built a series of trenches that went from the North Sea and through Belgium and France.
Trench warfare (1914)
In 1917, Germany's attacks on American ships and its attempts to meddle in U.S.-Mexican relations drew the U.S. into the war on the side of the Allies. The United States declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917
US enters the war (1917)
Balkan
What region of Europe was the source of most conflict leading to WWI
Ottoman Empire, Australia-Hungary, German, and Russian.
Which empires collapsed as a result of WWI
Ottoman, Russia, German, Austria-Hungary
Which empires collapsed as a result of WWI
Nicholas II
Who was the last tsar (empire) of russia
Serbia men assassinated Archduke Ferdinand
Why did Austria want to go to war with Serbia
The main purpose of the Gallipoli campaign was to end World War One quickly by creating a new war front that the Turks could not defend. The campaign took place between 25th April 1915 and 9th January 1916 and is considered to have been a great failure for the Allied Forces, who lost over 140,000 men.
gallipoli campaign (
Gavrilo Princip
member of the black hand; shot Austrian Archduke Ferdinand and wife June 28, 1914- set off WWI
