Causes of World War One
Key Figures of World War One
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A union or association formed for mutual benefit, typically between countries
What is an alliance?
100
The side that includes France, Britain, Italy, Russia, Japan, and the US
Who are the Triple Entente?
100
The name of Wilson's plan for peace
What is the 14 points?
100
A type of combat in which opposing troops fight from deep ditches dug by the troops facing each other. Includes using tangled and barbed wire.
What is Trench warfare?
100
This type of poisonous gas was first used by the Germans in 1915 at the Second Battle of Ypres.
What is chlorine gas?
200
A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force
What is imperialism?
200
This Archduke's assassination in 1914 sparked the beginning of World War I.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
200
Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause
What is propaganda?
200
The international organization developed after WWI whose main mission was to maintain world peace.
What is the League of Nations?
200
Most of the United States was ________________ before joining the war.
What is isolationist?
300
Love of one's country and the belief that your country is superior to others.
What is nationalism?
300
The country that dropped out of the Allied Powers to concentrate on their Communist Revolution
Who is Russia?
300
Prohibited gathering information relevant to national security in hopes to use the information to benefit foreign government
What is the Espionage Act?
300
A submarine used by the Germans in WWI.
What is the U-boat?
300
The years World War I began and finished
What is 1914 and 1918?
400
The sinking of this ship was one of the reasons the United States joined WWI.
What is the Lusitania
400
The side of the war that includes Germany, Austria- Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire
Who are the Triple Alliance?
400
Name of George Creel's propaganda organization
What is the Committee on Public Information or CPI?
400
Using of toxic gases to kill or injury an enemy.
What are chemical weapons?
400
In this, Germany had to pay billions in reparations, Germany lost land to Poland and France and lost most of its military.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
500
Another word for the arms race between Germany and Great Britain.
What is militarism?
500
New weapons used for the 1st time in warfare in WWI...
What are Tanks, Poison Gas, Machine guns...etc
500
List three new jobs available to women during the war
Weapons manufacturing/mutionette, nursing, typist/translator, switchboard operator, taxi/truck driver
500
A painful condition of the feet caused due to being under cold water or mud for long periods of time and marked by blackening and death of surface skin.
What is trench foot?
500
In this the US discovers that Germany wants to team up with Mexico
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?