W Hist-Chapter 24 WWI & Russian Revolution

Mandates

• Serbia wanted Bosnia & Herzegovina but AH had annex them
• Greater industrial power
• Great loss of territory & new states form: Palestine, Transjordan, Syria, Lebanon
• An area that was to be administered by the government of an "advanced" nation

Militarism

• Bolsheviks overthrew the provisional government in Russia
• 5 million wounded
• is the glorification of armed strength
• alliance between France, Russia, and Great Britain

U-boats

• Belgium gained independence BUT Belgium had to stay out of European war
• General nature and how to deal with specific countries and regions
• German term that means "underwater boats"
• 3. Lost considerable amount of land

Fourteen Points

• An agreement to stop fighting
• Ideas for a just world after the war presented by President Woodrow Wilson
• 3. Serbia would dismiss any officials who had promoted propaganda against AH
• Germany's well-trained & equipped army

Atrocities

• He was forced to abdicate the Russian throne in March of 1917. He and his entire family were murdered the following year by the Bolsheviks.
• Brutal crimes of war
• Exposed Russia's weakness because they lacked infrastructure and could not equip or supply army
• Radical socialist in Russia who took over the government and renamed themselves the Communist Party

War of attrition

• Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan, and the US
• A slow wearing-down process in which each side tries to outlast the other
• Germany had violated the neutrality of Belgium
• 4. AH officials would participate in the proceedings against those accused of the crime at Sarajevo

Treaty of Versailles

• consisted of the victorious Allied powers meeting and dictating the terms of peace to end World War I. Also known as the Versailles Conference
• The peace treaty with Germany
• used by the governments in WWI to portray an enemy as cruel or sub-human
• the Bolshevik party in Russia that transforms the country in the USSR

Belligerents

• Could blockade & attempt to starve the CP
• Each nation would be neutral if the other became involved in a defensive war
• 2. the treaty did not specify the total amount of reparations
• This is the term given to "warring nations"

Central Powers

• The Leader of the Bolsheviks who was an intelligent & forceful man who adopted Marxist ideas to fit Russia's circumstances
• Consisted of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, & the Ottoman Empire
• Description of the international rivalries & instability focused on the Balkans before World War I
• Exposed Russia's weakness because they lacked infrastructure and could not equip or supply army

Allied Powers

• Consisted of Great Britain, France, Russia, & their partners
• Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan, and the US
• alliance between France, Russia, and Great Britain
• Easier to obtain food & raw materials