Causes of the War
Who's death lead to war in Europe?
Who is Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand
The side of the during the war that includes Germany, Austria- Hungary and the Ottoman Empire
Central Powers
The American president during the War
Woodrow Wilson
_______ was a painful and dangerous medical condition which was caused by standing for days in wet, muddy trenches
Trench foot
Give another name for WWI
The Great War
This steel war machine was used for the first time in this war
Tank
By year 1919, all European countries involved in WWI agreed to the __________ Treaty with Germany
What is the Versailles Treaty
What American ship was sunk by German U-boats?
What is the Lusitania?
The country that dropped out of the Allied Powers to concentrate on their Communist Revolution
Russia
A policy of glorifying war and building a strong army and navy
militarism
The front where most of the trench fighting happened
What is The Western Front?
The year that the United States joined WW1?
When is 1917
A gun that fired 600 bullets a minute
machine guns
After the Versailles Treaty, Germany had to pay __________________________ in retribution for the damages caused by the war
$33 billion
!hen a country forms a firm pact with another country
What is an alliance
Who was in the Triple Entente?
What is France, Russia, Britian
Who was the leader of Germany during WWI?
Who is Kaiser Wilhelm
When one side went "over the top" they charged onto this kind of landscape
What is No Man's Land
On which two fronts did Germany fight during World War I?
Russia to the East and France to the West
These were used as a system of defense and attack. They cause the men to be "stuck" in one place
What are the trenches
For the United States, where was the last battle fought that ended when they received word that the war was over. (Battle ground, not the country)
Argonne Forest
What is a policy in which a country tries to control another area or country economically, socially, or politically (forming colonies)
What is Imperialism?
What country switched sides during the war?
What is Italy
Name the four empires during World War 1
Ottoman Empire
German Empire
Austrian-Hungary Empire
Russian Empire
The country where most of the war was fought
France
What was the name of the group of nations that Woodrow Wilson formed to sign an agreement to protect each other if someone were to break the treaties
League of Nations
Name three new inventions used in WWI
planes, artillery, flamethrower, gas, gas masks, machine gun, tank
What day did the final fighting of WWI come to an end AND what is that day known as?
What is 11.11.1918 and Armistice/Veterans Day
Or November 11 at 11:00
When a country forms a friendship with another country
Entente
Which country introduced the U-Boat during WWI?
What is Germany
The country that Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand's assassin was from.
What is Serbia
Which country made the first declaration of war?
Austria-Hungary
What is the name for President Wilson's Program for Peace?
What is "fourteen points
What is the term for payment from one nation to another for economic injury suffered during a war?
Reparations
After the Versailles Treaty both sides of the __________________________ River were demilitarized
Rhine River in Germany
A neutral country that Germany marched their troops through to reach France.
What is Belgium
Refusing to take sides in the war
What is neutrality
This person was the leader of Austria-Hungary. His nephew was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist.
What is Franz Joseph
After the Versailles Treaty, Germany's military was restricted to. . . (name two restrictions)
What is 100,000 men, 6 ships in the navy with no submarines, no air force, and no importing weapons
The Zimmermann telegram urged which country to attack the United States
Mexico
What new technology was used to drop bombs from the air?
Airplanes
Name a two new countries created after WWI
many> Austria, Poland. Hungary, Latvia, Estonia. Lithuania, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia
What year did WW1 start?
1914
Why did Germany go through Belgium?
France had forts along the German border
The leaders of the countries that held the most power at the Peace Conference were called
The Big Four
It was here, 40 miles from Paris, that the Germans were stopped by the French preventing them from advancing on to Paris
Marne River
The armistice of 1918 meant
the end to the fighting of World War I
The laying down of weapons
Which type of weapons used mustard and chlorine gas?
Chemical weapons
Woodrow Wilson's plan for "peace without victory" was called the
The Fourteen Points