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Study Topics for WWI Test
Study chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 8
[Note: I've labeled some topics that you can dismiss, as they will not show up on the test. I am not saying that these topics are irrelevant or unimportant; I am merely trying to make studying for this test a less time intensive thing for students. They are marked with "(omit)."]
Study Topics
Ch. 1 (Black Book) Hereditary Foes and Uncertain Allies
-- makeup of the Reichstag (omit) -- Germany's domestic political environment (omit) -- fear of the rise of the Social Democratic Party -- Schlieffen Plan and the remarkable aspects of German official thinking in the plan -- Weltpolitik and the Navy Law of 1898 -- Moroccan crises of 1905 and 1911 -- December 1912 meeting
Ch. 1 (Black Book) Hereditary Foes and Uncertain Allies
Conservative France (omit) The Dreyfus Affair (omit) Paradox of French weakness and international strength Franco-Russian Alliance 1894 Moroccan crisis Entente Cordiale Raymond Poincare Poincare's views of the Franco-Russian Alliance Poincare's views of the growing power of Germany
Ch. 2 (Black Book) The British Empire
British industrial position The political parties of Great Britiain (omit) The security of the British isles Removing conflict between the United States Colonial agreements with France and Russia 2nd Moroccan crisis naval agreements with Germany Germanophobia German fears of encirclement
Terms for Russia: Ch. 3 (Black Book) Russia 1905 (why was this year a turning point?), October Manifesto of 1905, Peter Stolypin, Tsar Nicholas II, 1904 War with Japan, the Balkan League, Sergei Sazonov (omit), the Straits of Constantinople
Terms for Austria-Hungary: Ch. 3 (Black book) settlement of 1867 (omit), dualism (omit), Francis Joseph (omit), Habsburg foreign policy, Foreign Minister Count Aehrenthal, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosnian Crisis, Serbia
Chapter 4: Study Topics (Black Book)
- Controversy surrounding the Black Hand - Serbian power in the Balkan region and political implications - Austro-Hungarian diplomacy and its response to the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand - The three obstacles for Austria-Hungary when dealing with Serbia - issues surrounding Germany's "blank check" to Austria-Hungary - the Austro-Hungarian ultimatum - the efforts of Sir Edward Grey in the July Crisis of 1914 (omit) - the importance of mobilization for all parties involved, especially the Tsar - partial vs. full mobilization - The Schlieffen Plan - responsibility for starting conflict: Grenville's thoughts - the role of the British in this whole affair
Chapter 8: Study Topics (Black Book)
- the eastern front and the battle of Tannenburg - attrition and industrial war - domestic politics in each nation before the outbreak of war (omit) - the British naval blockade - the new weapons of war (omit) - the propaganda campaign of each country, specifically propaganda aimed against Germany - Armenian massacre or genocide (omit) - Effect of war on neutral countries, specifically the United States - Woodrow Wilson and the issue of neutrality - British decision to attack Turkey - The Ottoman Empire's role in the war - Italy's role in the war (omit) - Bethmann Hollweg's idea of a "Middle Europe" - Russian aims and Allied aims - Verdun and Somme - Spring of 1917
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