Chapter+12-1.+World+War+I+Breaks+Out

Chapter 12-1: World War I Breaks Out

Key Terms/People:
 * Militarism: glorification of military strength
 * Franz Ferdinand: the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne
 * Gavrilo Princip: Serbia Nationalist, killed the Archduke and his wife Sophie with two gun shots
 * Allied Powers: Britain, France, and Russia
 * Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria
 * The First Battle of the Marne: German invaded Belgium against France, Britain, and Belgium
 * No-Man's-Land:separating sides was a thin strip of bombed-out-territory strewn with barbed wire
 * trench warfare: soldiers went back and forth to either sides dodging bullets
 * Battle of the Somme: British forces suffered some 60,000 casualties in a single day

Key Events: The Causes of the War The Great War Begins The War Reached a Stalemate
 * he growth of nationalism throughout Europe was a long term cause of the war
 * Most small countries were overpowered by larger European Countries
 * Most nations were characterized with Militarism
 * Franz Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated by Gavrilo Princip a Serbian
 * Allied Powers were against Central Powers
 * Germany Focused on beating Russia
 * German troops poured into Belgium on Auguts 3-4 1914
 * France and Britain got involved, German invasion made allies back to the Marne River in France
 * 1915, trench Warfare was used and in the middle was named no mans land
 * Battle of Somme where British forces suffered 60,000 casualties in a day
 * new weapons were created, machine guns, poison gas, submarines, and airplanes