| A | B |
|---|
| nationalism | people of similar language, religion, culture and history desiring to form an independent political unit |
| imperialism | gaining colonies for trade and settlement |
| colonial rivalry | rivalry between major European powers of control of colonial interests before WWI |
| alliance system | grouping of major European countries into two groups |
| bourgoise | commercial middle class |
| Boer War | war fought between Britain and Sth African Boers for contol of Transvaal and the Orange Free State |
| Boxer Rebellion | rebellion in China against foriegners |
| conservatism | opposition to social, political and economic change |
| militarism | emphasis on building up military power:ships, army, weapons |
| Ottoman Empire | Turkish Empire |
| pacifism | belief that war and fighting are immoral |
| Portsmouth | place where the treaty was signed ending the Russo-Japanese War in 1905 |
| socialism | belief that resources should be redistributed equally in a society |
| assassination | killing with a political motive |
| Franz Ferdinand | Archduke, heir to the Austrian throne, assassinated by Gavril Princeps |
| Princeps | assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 |
| Sarajevo | place where Gavril Princeps assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand |
| Bosnia | country annexed by Austria in 1908 |
| Kaiser | king of Germany pre 1918 |
| Gooch | historian who believed that Germany was unfairly blamed as being solely responsible for starting WWI |
| Fischer | German historian who argued that Germany's aggression and ambitions led to the outbreak of WWI |
| Ritter | German historian who argued that German policy was defensive but they were partly responsible for starting WWI |
| Taylor | historian who believed that all countiries were aggressive and stumbled blindly into war |
| Erdmann | historian who stated that Germany feared the Entente and started a defensive war |
| Joll | historian who believed that alliances, militarism, colonial rivalry and mistakes caused WWI |
| Billefield | argued the aggressive German foreign policy alarmed European powers who tried to prevent German expansion |
| Three | number of emperors involved in the League of 1887 |
| Cordiale | Entente between Britian and France 1904 |
| Morocco | The Entente Cordiale gave France free reign here in 1904 |
| Egypt | The Entente Cordiale gave Britian free reign here in 1904 |
| Tangiers | Kaiser Wilhelm II visits here in 1905 sparking the First Moroccan Crisis |
| Dreadnought | British battleship launched in 1906 |
| Wilhelm II | German king who feared the "iron ring of encirclement" |
| Dardanelles | the Strait between European and Asian Turkey which Russia failed to gain access to in 1908 |
| Austria | country that annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1908 |
| Sultan | removed from the Ottoman throne by the Young Turk rebellion in 1908 |
| Panther | the gunboat that sparked the second Moroccan crisis in 1911 |
| Weltpolitik | belief by the Germans that they had to expand and increase nationalism |
| Reinsurance | Treaty between Russian and Germany that lapsed in 1894 |
| Balkans | territory in eastern Europe held by the Ottoman Empire until 1912 |
| Bulgaria | country that attacked Serbia in the second Balkan War in 1913 |
| Belgium | country invaded by Germany in 1915 sparking the beginning of WWI |
| Russia | country that came to the support of Serbia in 1913 |
| Defence | most European countries increased spending for this by 1913 |
| Entente | alliance formed between Russia, Britan and France in 1907 |
| Berlin | Congress in 1878 when Germany acted as "honest broker" of the Treaty of San Stefano |
| Pan-Slavism | Austria-Hungary opposed this in the Balkans |
| Austria-Turkey | lost Serbia, Romania, Montenegro, Bulgaria in 1878 |
| Bismarck | Chancellor who oversaw the unification of German |
| Victoria | Queen of Great Britian and Empress of India who died in 1901 |
