Entering the War
This triggered the fighting in Europe in 1914
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
British passenger ship sunk by a German U-boat
Lusitania
President of the United States at the time
Woodrow Wilson
The points Woodrow Wilson presented at the Versailles conference to establish a more peaceful world
Wilson's 14 points
What year did the war end?
1918
The belief that a government or people should have a strong military and be prepared to use it aggressively if needed
Militarism
France, Britain and the Russian alliance
Triple Entente or Axis powers
Dictator(s) of Russia
Vladimir Lenin
Treaty placing harsh sanctions on Germany and its allies. Created by the Allied Powers
Treaty of Versaiiles
Define isolationists and interventionists
isolationists - people who believed the U.S. should stay out of the war
interventionists - people who believed the U.S. should intervene in the war to protect U.S. interests
The desire to control more land and colonies created this cause of WWI
Imperialism
movement of African Americans from the southern to the northern cities
Great Migration
Britain's leader at the time
Winston Churchill
Almost all the blame for the war was placed on this country
Germany
What was the Black Hand
a Serbian terrorist group
The belief of one nation being superior to all other nations
Nationalism
Define reparations
Payment by the losing country in the war to the winning country for the damages dealt
The last Russian king
Tsar Nicholas II
created after the first world war to provide a place for settling disputes
League of Nations
2 different names for world war 1
-War to End All Wars
-War of the nations
-The Great War
The reason why the United States entered the war
The Zimmerman note
Define armistice
A truce
Leader of Germany during WWI
Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert
Name two ways the Treaty of Versailles impacted Germany
-Pay reparations
-Took away land
-Reduced military
-Humiliated
-Stripped of colonies and industry
Assassinated Franz Ferdinand
Gavrilo Princip