AP EUROPEAN HISTORY: WORLD WAR I AND THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION

- Long-term Causes of World War I - rival alliances - Triple Alliance - Triple Entente - Three Emperors’ League - Dual Alliance - French Russian alliance - Entente Cordial - Anglo-German Rivalries - Germany vs Britain - arms race - expansion of German and British navies - imperialism - Baghdad Railroad - Germany advocates Moroccan independence - First Moroccan Crisis - Algerian Conference - Second Moroccan Crisis - the Panther - city of Fez - nationalism - ethnic groups in the Ottoman Empire - Dual Monarchy - Pan-Slavism - First Balkan Crisis - Turkish-Italian War - First Balkan War - Second Balkan War Immediate Cause of World War I - Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand - Wilhelm’s “blank check” - Austria declares war on Serbia - Germany declares war on Russia - France declares war on Germany - Germany invades Belgium - Britain declares war on Germany - The War - the sides - the Allies - the Central Powers - the Western Front - Schlieffen Plan - its strategies - why it failed - war of attrition - trench warfare - the Eastern Front - von Hindenburg - Erich Ludendorff - Galacia - Gallipoli Campaign - fall of the Czar - Alexander Kerensky - Bolsheviks - waging the war - total war - propaganda - food rationing - war bonds - naval blockades - unrestricted submarine warfare - the Lusitania - Wilson’s declaration of war - diplomacy - neutral Italy - Zimmerman Note - Palestine - the war ends - America enters the war - collapse of Austria-Hungarian empire - abdication of the kaiser - Wilson’s Fourteen Points - eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month - the Spanish Flu - The Peace Settlements - Highlights of the Fourteen Points - end secret treaties - freedom of the seas - free trade - arms reduction - settlement of colonial claims - evacuation of occupied territories, national self-determination - establishment of a League of Nations - Results of the War - 10 million battle dead, countless civilians - end of Russian, German, Austrian and Ottoman Empires - arbitrary creation of ethnically diverse states in Eastern Europe - Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia - establishment of communism in Russia - the enmity of the German people - World War II would break out 20 years after Treaty of Versailles