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What were the main causes of the war?
Militarism- The belief in having a strong army and using it
Alliances- An agreement between nations to work as a team
Imprialism-Competing for land, raw materials, and markets.
Nationalism- Sense of pride in a nation
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Why were the ethnic tensions?
- -Many ethnic groups
- -Each group had a strong sense of nationalism
- -Led to tension and competion, hatred.
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What was the Western Front Like?
- Location: France
- -Trench warfare
- -Soliders dug trenches
- -very little movement one way or the other
- -led to stalemates (a.k.a ties)
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What was the eastern front like?
- Location: Near Russia
- -Long lines
- -forced to mobolize troops
- -Very mobile fighting and a lot of land was exvhanged.
- -Bitter cold
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What was the war at sea like?
- Location: Coast of Great Britain
- -Great Briatin vs. Germany
- -Germans used U-Boats
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What is Contraband?
supplies that helped the war effort
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What was the event that 'lit the fuse'
- Assation of Archduke, Franz Ferdinand, 1914
- Shooters name was Gavrilo Princip
- part of a terrorist group
- Hatred for A-H, saw them as a threat
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What conditions were faced in trenches?
rat infestation, lice, trench foot, potrolling no mans land, smell, stalemates
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What technology was invented?
posion gas, gas maskes, rifiles, tanks, flame throwers, camo
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Why did US enter the war
- The zimmerman note
- The Lucitania was sunken by German U-baots. 200 people killed snd contraband destroyed
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What is the homefront?
the place where non-fighting citizens lived while their nation is engaged in war
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What is total war?
The idea that all resources in the country are devoted to the war
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Woman in the war:
- Trained war dogs
- Nurses
- Supplied troops with supplies
- Worked in factories and offices
- Worked on Trains
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What were econominc effects of the war?
- Total Cost of the War: 338 Billion
- Government ran out of money
- Government was seeking answers to finacial problems
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What were the social affects of the war
- families and communties destroyed
- returning soliders we disallusioned
- alram because of the amount of countries involved and death
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What were the 4 main points of Wilson's 14 points?
- 1. Openess and Less Agression
- 2. How to deal with colonies
- 3. Territorial Changes
- 4. Peace Keeping
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Who was in the Triple Entante
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Who was in the central powers
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Who was in the Triple Alliance
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