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Three Emperor’s League

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  • Bismarck made an alliance in 1873 and 1881 with the traditionally conservative powers in Austria Hungary and Russia
  • failed to work very well (Russian-Austrian rivalry in Balkans
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Treaty of San Stefano

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-1878; large Bulgarian state created; extended from Danube in N to Aegean Sea in S
-Bulgaria= Russian satellite→ other European powers discuss revision of treaty→
Congress of Berlin

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Congress of Berlin

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  • 1878; dominated by Bismarck
  • demolished the Treaty of San Stefano (Russian humiliation)
  • new Bulgarian state was reduced and rest of territory returned to Ottoman control
  • Serbia, Montenegro, and Romania= independent
  • Austria gets Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Triple Alliance

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Reinsurance Treaty

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  • Germany (Bismarck) and Russia

- 1887; hope to prevent a French-Russian alliance that would threaten Germany with the possibility of a two-front war

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Bosnia and Herzegovina

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  • under protection of Austria ; 1908= Austria annex them→Serbia MAD (it crushed hopes of creating a Serbian kingdom that includes most of Southern Slavs)
  • Austrian thought this would be a threat to the unity of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
  • Russians supported Serbs; opposed Austria
  • Serbs= war against Austria; Austria threatened to go to war with Russia if they didn’t recognize the annexation→ Russia weakened by the Russo-Japanese War= back down
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Balkan Wars

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  • First Balkan War= 1912= serbia, bulgaria, montenegro, and greece→ Balkan League; defeated ottomans
  • Second Balkan War= they were unable to agree on how to divide conquered Ottoman provinces of Macedonia and Albania
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London Conference

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  • arranged by Austria at the end of the 2 Balkan Wars
  • Austria blocked serbia’s wishes by making Albania dependent (germans supported)
  • serbians viewed them as monsters→ Russians upset too; they didn’t want to back down again
  • Austria still convinced that Serbia wa a mortal threat to its empire and must be crushed
  • french and russian gov renewed alliance; promised not to back down; britain= closer to france
  • 2 camps viewed each other with suspicion
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conscription

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  • regular practice; military draft
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand

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  • Austria
  • him and wife Sophia were assassinated on June 28 1914 by Bosnian activist who worked for the Black Hand (Serbian terrorist organization dedicated to creation of pan slavic kingdom)
  • Austria didn’t know if Serbian gov was directly involved but they saw it as an opportunity to show Serbia who’s boss
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**Schlieffen Plan

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  • called for minimal troop deployment against Russia while most of the German army would make rapid invasion of western France by way of neutral Belgium
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mobilization

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-the organization of troops and supplies for service in time for war

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**First Battle of the Marne

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  • after Germans invade Belgium; British and french counterattack led by George Joseph Joffre
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trench warfare

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-warfare in which the opposing forces attack and counterattack from a relatively permanent system of trenches protected by barbed wire

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Battle of Tannenberg/Battle of Masurian Lakes

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  • Russian defeated by Germany; these established the military reputation of the commanding general, Paul von Hindenburg, and chief of staff, General Erich Ludendorff
  • Russians no longer a threat to German territory
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Battle at Verdun

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-1916; German offensive

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Battle of the Somme

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-1916; British campaigns

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Battle of Champaign

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-1917; french attack; all showed senselessness of trench warfare

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**Gallipoli

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  • SW of Constantinople= British forces attempted to open Balkan front by landing forces there
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T.E. Lawrence

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  • Lawrence of Arabia; inspired Arab princes to revolt against ottoman overlords (1916)
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unrestricted submarine warfare

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  • type of naval warfare in which submarines sink vessels such as freighters and tankers without warning
  • ex: Germans threatened to torpedo any ship caught in British isles, which they declared a war zone
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Lusitania

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-passenger liners were sunk → British ship May 7, 1915

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total war

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  • affected lives of all citizens even if it is remote; warfare in which all of a nation’s resources, including civilians and soldiers, are mobilized for war efforts
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nationalization

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-he process of converting business or industry from private ownership to gov control/ownership

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Easter Rebellion

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  • Ireland; Easter Sunday; members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood and Citizens Army occupied gov buildings in Dublin
  • crushed by British forces and leaders to condemned to death
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Rasputin

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  • Serbian peasant; Nicholas’s wife, Alexandra, thought he was a holy man bc he seemed able to stop the bleeding of her hemophiliac son
  • had power behind the throne; interfered in gov affairs
  • assassinated December 1916
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soviets

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-councils of workers’ and soldiers’ deputies; represented more radical interests of the lower classes and largely composed of socialists of various kinds

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Mensheviks

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  • part of Marxist Social Democratic Party; wanted Social Democrats to be a mass electoral socialist party based on a Western model
  • willing to cooperate temporarily in the parliamentary democracy while working towards socialist state
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Bolsheviks

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-part of Marxist Social Democratic Party; under the leadership of V. I. Lenin (Vladimir Ulianov)

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V. I. Lenin (Vladimir Ulianov)

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  • enemy of tsarist Russia; Marxist; helped organized a illegal group known as the Union for the Liberation of the Working Class
  • made the Bolsheviks a violent revolution that would destroy the capitalist system
  • outbreak of war gave him hope all of Europe was ripe for revolution
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April Theses

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  • issued on April 20; Lenin presented a blueprint for revolutionary action based on his own version of the Marxist theory
  • Russia moves to socialism, not bourgeois revolution
  • soviets of soldiers, workers, and peasants are ready-made instruments of power; use them to overthrow the provisional gov; “peace, land, and bread”
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Army Order No. 1

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  • issued by Petrograd soviets in March; to all Russian military forces; encourage them to remove their officers and replace them with committees composed of “the elected reps of the lower ranks” of the army
  • led to the collapse of all discipline and created military chaos
  • when the provisional gov attempted to initiate military offensive in July→ army dissolved; peasant soldiers back out and return home
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Alexander Kerensky

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  • moderate socialist; prime minister in the provisional gov
  • released the Bolsheviks from prison to help Petrograd when Kornilov attempted to march on Petrograd and seize power in Sept
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Leon Trotsky

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  • revolutionary; chairman of Petrograd soviet; got Bolsheviks to overthrow gov when Lenin couldn’t
  • Bolshevik Revolution
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Bolshevik Revolution

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  • Nov 6= soviets and Bolsheviks took control of Petrograd

- transfer of power to them; new soviet gov→ Council of People’s Commissars; Lenin = head

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Alexandra Kollontai

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lead in pushing Bolshevik program for women’s rights and social welfare reforms (health care for women and children)
-Zhenotdel

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Zhenotdel

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  • women’s bureau
  • within Communist Party;sent men and women to all parts of the Russian Empire to explain the new social order
  • help women with divorce and women’s rights
  • members were murdered by males who didn’t like this liberation
  • reforms were undone
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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

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  • Russia and Germany; gave up eastern Poland, Ukraine, Finland, and Baltic Provinces
  • not real peace
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Russian Civil War

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  • 1918-1921

- Red Army defends the Bolsheviks gov against the Whites (anti-Bolsheviks) armies

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war communism

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  • Lenin’s policy of nationalizing industrial and other facilities and requisitioning the peasants’ produce during the Russian civil war
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Red Terror

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  • instituted by the Cheka; aimed at the destruction of all opponents of the new regime
  • the element of fear in the Bolshevik regime