World History WWI

This term characterizes a period of colonial and imperial expansion by European powers, the United States, and Japan during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

• Imperialism

• New Imperialism

• Fourteen Points

• Scramble for Africa

There were two wars waged between the Qing dynasty and Western powers in the mid-19th century over the controversial sale of specific narcotics.

• World War 1

• World War 2

• Opium Wars

• Second Moroccan Crisis

This was a meeting of major European powers (and the United States) which regulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period.

• Berlin Conference

• Spheres of Influence

• Schlieffen Plan

• Scramble for Africa

This was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent from 1858 to 1947.

• Berlin Conference

• British Raj

• Ottoman Empire

• Bolshevik Revolution

This was the invasion, occupation, division, and colonization of most of Africa by seven Western European powers during a short period known to historians as the New Imperialism (between 1881 and 1914).

• Scramble for Africa

• Second Moroccan Crisis

• Bolshevik Revolution

• New Imperialism

This was the term used to describe a coalition of countries led by France, Britain, Russia, Italy, Japan, and the United States during the First World War.

• Central Powers

• Axis Powers

• Allied Powers

• Triple Entente

This is a type of land warfare using occupied fighting lines largely comprising military trenches, in which troops are well-protected from the enemy's small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery

• machine guns

• barbed wire

• Schlieffen Plan

• trench warfare

This was one of the two main coalitions that fought World War I (1914–18). It consisted of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria.

• central powers

• axis powers

• allied powers

• triple entente

This was a brief crisis sparked by the deployment of a substantial force of French troops in April 1911 and the deployment of a German gunboat to an Atlantic port in North Africa

• Second Moroccan Crisis

• Bolshevik Revolution

• Russian Revolution

• Opium Wars

This was a name given to an army deployment plan for a war-winning offensive against the French Third Republic. German forces were to invade France through the Netherlands and Belgium rather than across the common border.

• Bolshevik Revolution

• Schlieffen Plan

• Fourteen Points

• unrestricted submarine warfare