Advanced Placement European History
Chapter 26
The Road to War
Imperialism…what was it and why possible?
Where?
What is meant by the term “New Imperialism”? What was the pattern?
Motives for imperialism (think PERSIA M model as you read and take notes!)?
Irrational motives for New Imperialism?
Scramble for Africa? What countries were involved?
Non-European Imperialists?
Open-Door Policy?
Describe Kaiser William II’s behavior. What was meant by…“A Place in the Sun?”
Alliances…what threatened the state of Germany?
Bismarck,s strategy concerning alliances?
Three Emperor’s League-
Describe Ottoman Empire and the “eastern question.".
Congress of Berlin
“honest broker”
Bosnia and Herzegovinia
“South Slavic Question?”
Triple Alliance
Dual Alliance
Reinsurance Treaty
“A Place in the Sun”
Describe William II
What was the result of Bismarck’s dismissal?
Franco-Russian Alliance
What was the relationship between Britain and Germany?
“Splendid Isolation”
Paul Kruger in the Transvaal
Alfred von Tirpitz and risk theory.
Entente Cordial
First Moroccan Crisis
Bernhard von Bulow
Sir Edward Grey
Berlin to Baghdad Railroad
Triple Entente
What happened to Bismarck’s alliance system?
Young Turks
Bosnian Crisis and the Dardenelles
Second Moroccan Crisis
Panther gunboat
What was the results from the Balkan Wars in 1912and 1913?
The War
The Stalemate years, The Crucial Year, Year of Victory
Sarajevo
Black Hand
Archduke Ferdinand
Sophie
Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg
Blank Check
“calculated risk”
Serbia
Mobilization and its consequences/reactions to it on both sides
Schlieffen Plan
Belgian neutrality
Sir Edward Grey-“the lights were going out throughout Europe.”
Splendid isolation
Allied Powers
Central Powers
Western Front
Eastern Front
Ludendorff
Churchill’s Dardenelles Plan
Verdun
Somme River
Battles of Attrition
John Singer Sargent
Lusitania
T.E. Lawrence
Woodrow Wilson
“Make the world safe for democracy.”
Sussex Pledge
Jutland
Russian Revolution
Nicholas II
Rasputin
Alexandra
OTMA
Alexis
Petrograd
Duma
Provisional Government
Kerensky
Soviets
Mensheviks
Bolsheviks
Cadets
Constitutional Democrats
Trotsky
Stalin
Red Army
“Land, Bread, and Peace.”
October Revolution
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Red vs. White
End of War
Hindenberg
Germany’s last offensive
Max of Baden
What were the casualty numbers for the war?
“cynicism, nihilism, dictatorship, state racism”
Versailles
Fourteen Points- You need to understand the issues surrounding:
a. reparations b. peace without victory c. national self-determination d. league of nations e. open covenants f. colonial issues g. clause 231 h. Keynes’ criticism of reparations
Peace of Paris
Clemenceau
Wilson
Orlando
Lloyd George
Spartacus group
Why was Versailles such a dismal failure?