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| Kaiser William II | The German ruler who glorified military power, _?_ believed militarily powerful nations usually got what they wanted. |
| Alfred Thayer Mahan | Influencing Germany, Japan, and others, the American naval officer _?_ wrote that the key to world power was sea power. |
| Triple Alliance | To guard against a French-Russian alliance and a two-front war, Germany allied with Austria and then Italy in the _?_ . |
| Pan-Slavism | The nationalist, all-Slavic movement among the Salvic populations in the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires was called _?_ ; it was led by the Russian Empire. |
| Schlieffen Plan | Germany's plan to attack and defeat France quickly and then fight Russia in order to avoid a two front war was the _?_ . |
| Triple Entente | Russia joined Britain and France in the _?_ in 1907. |
| Archduke Francis Ferdinand | Heir to the Austrian empire _?_ planned to give the Slavs participation in the government. His assassination in Sarajevo sparked World War I. |
| Allied Powers | After World War I began, the Triple Entente of Russia, France and Britain became the _?_. |
| Central Powers | During World War I, Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria were known as the _?_ . |
| Serbia | This European part of the Ottoman Empire gained independence as _?_ ; it became landlocked when Albania was created. Austria made an ultimatum against this country after the archduke's assassination. |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | _?_ were part of the Austro-Hungarian empire with a Slavic population that wanted to join Serbia. Here in the city of Sarajevo the archduke was assassinated. |
| Husayn ibn Ali | If the British would support Arabia's independence from the Ottoman Empire and his becoming caliph, _?_ , the ruler of Mecca would help the British fight the Ottomans. |
| General Edmund Allenby | The British leader who captured Jerusalem and then Damascus from the Ottomans with the help of the Arabs was _?_ . |
| Woodrow Wilson | Keeping the U.S. neutral until the Zimmerman Note and unrestricted submarine warfare, _?_ asked Congress to delcare war; in 1918 he proposed Fourteen Points for a lasting peace. |
| General Erich Ludendorff | In order to defeat France and Britain before the U.S. troops arrived, _?_ led a German offensive in March 1918; it exhausted the army and used up German reserves. |
| Marshal Ferdinand Foch | With extra military forces and in preparation for a final assault on Germany, _?_ began an offensive campaign against German troops in France and Belgium in the fall of 1918. |
| Marne River | In 1914 on the Western Front, first victories went to the Germans until the Germans advance was stopped at the _?_ about 50 miles from Paris. |
| Verdun | Three-quarters of a million casualties in the battle from Feb. to Dec. 1916 were inflicted at _?_ in France where the Germans hoped to wear down the French. |
| Somme River | In 1916 more than an million casualties were the results of the 1916 battle at the _?_ on the Western Front. |
| Izonzo River | Italy lost a million men at the battle of Caporetto and Gorizia along the _?_ on the border with Austria. |
| Tannenberg | On the Eastern Front, Germany concentrated her forces against the Russians in 1914, and at _?_ defeated the Russians, capturing about 100,000 men. |
| Gallipoli | After losing in the Dardanelles, the British fought on the _?_ Peninsula hoping to gain entrance to the Black Sea to supply Russia; the Allies lost. |
| Kut | The British lost a battle here in the Middle East in 1916, but retook _?_ in 1917 and advanced to control all of Mesopotamia. |
| Fourteen Points | National self-determination and collective security were two principles of President Wilson's _?_ , a plan to bring lasting world peace at the end of World War I. |
| Henry Cabot Lodge | Because he feared that committment to collective security in a League of Nations would undermine Congress's constitutional responsibility for declaring war, _?_ , the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, opposed signing the Versailles |
| Georges Clemenceau | Fearing Wilson's idea of collective security, _?_ of France favored an imposed peace in which Germany was dismembered and occupied so that France and peace would be secure. |
| Versailles Treaty | Returning Alsace-Lorraine to France, demilitarizing the Rhineland, giving France control of the Saar Valley coal, reparations, and war guilt were outlined in the _?_ which was the treaty the Allies wrote for the Germans. |
| Washington Naval Conference | The United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy sent limits on the size of their navies at President Harding's _?_ in 1922. |
| Dawes Plan | After Germany defaulted on its war reparations in 1923, the _?_ was devised to relieve Germany of some economic pressure by rescheduling Germany's reparation payments. |
| Polish Corridor | "The root of the next war" according to Marshal Foch was the _?_ which guaranteed Poland access to the Baltic Sea through an area occupied by Germans. |
| Finland | After the fall of the Russian Empire, _?_ whose capital is Helsinki became an independent nation. |
| Estonia | Due south of Finland, _?_ with its captial of Talin became independent after the fall of Russia and the treaties of World War I. |
| Latvia | A Baltic state between Estonia and Lithuania, _?_ whose capital is Riga gained independence after the demise of the Russian Empire and end of World War I. |
| Lithuania | The most southerly of the former Russian Baltic states, _?_ with its capital of Kaunas became independent after World War I. |
| Yugoslavia | Serbia and Slavic areas formerly controlled by Austria in the Balkans became the new country of _?_. |
| Trieste | After World War I, Italy gained the port of _?_ at the head of the Adriatic Sea and some of the South Tirol region of the Alps. |
| Fiume | Dissatisfied because it did not get the port of _?_, Italy grew politically instable. |
| Tirol | Italy gained a region of the southern Alps called the South _?_ in the peace settlement after World War I. |
