Causes of WWI
Devotion to one's nation.
What is nationalism?
Austria-Hungary's response when Serbia did not agree to their demands for an investigation into the assassination.
What is declared war on Serbia?
A situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible.
What is a stalemate?
Weapons and other articles used to fight a war.
What are contraband?
List of terms for resolving WWI and future wars outlined by President Woodrow Wilson.
What is the Fourteen Points?
The belief that the fittest nation would come out ahead in the constant competition among countries.
Mobilized for war to help its ally Serbia against Austria.
What is Russia?
When opposing armed forces attack, counterattack, and defend from relatively permanent systems dug into the ground.
What is trench warfare?
The two nations that engaged in a series of blockades against each other.
What is Britain & Germany?
World organization established after WWI to promote peaceful cooperation among countries.
What is the League of Nations?
Glorification of the military that fueled arms race.
What is militarism?
Germany declared war against neutral Belgium...
What is to invade France?
The ground between two opposing trenches that has been charred beyond recognition as a result of artillery barrages and blasts.
Resulted in American protests against unarmed and unresisting ships being sunk without warning or being provided safety for its passengers.
What is the sinking of the British passenger liner the Lusitania by a German u-boat?
Payment for war damages.
What are reparations?
Assassinated on June 28, 1914, alongside his wife Sophie.
Who is Archduke Francis Ferdinand?
France
Britain
Russia
Serbia
Italy
Japan
United States
What are the Allied Powers?
Soldiers killed, wounded, or missing.
What are casualties?
Violation of this pledge led President Wilson to prepare the nation for war.
What is the Sussex Pledge?
A truce.
What is armistice?
The 3 -isms that caused WWI.
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Ottoman Empire
What is the Central Powers?
Four forms of deadly technology used during WWI.
What are poison gas, machine guns, flamethrower, artillery field guns, tanks & armored cars, airplanes, and submarines?
A telegram proposing an alliance with Mexico if the U.S. declared war on Germany.
What is the Zimmermann note?
A document signed between Germany & the Allied Powers following WWI that officially ended the war.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?