Vocab
Identifcation with one’s own nation and support for its interests.
What is nationalism?
Great Britain, France, and Russia.
Who are the allied powers?
Austria Hungary, Germany, Ottoman Empire.
What were the central powers?
Nationalism, Imperialism, Militarism, and a combination of public and secret alliances.
What caused WWI?
Woodrow Wilson's position in government.
What is the president?
A British ship that was sunk on May 7, 1916, killing 128 American passengers. This swayed American opinion against Germany.
What was the Lusitania?
Wilson had to get a majority of votes in the Senate for this.
What is what did Wilson have to do to ratify the Treaty of Versailles?
Saw Germany as bullies.
What were the Americans view of the Germans?
Created a blockade against the Germans, but also captured American ships.
What is the British?
Caused 128 Americans to die.
What was the result of the Lusitana being sunk?
A policy of extending a country’s power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
What is imperialism?
A series of unexplained bombings that caused the attorney general to establish a special office specifically to gather information on radicals. This caused mass arrests of up to 6,000 people. The mass arrests were mostly of anarchists, socialists, and labor agitators.
What were the palmer raids?
The Russian Revolution and the abdication of Tsar Nicholas.
What caused Russia to exit the war?
His death sparked WWI.
What is the result of the Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand's death?
Signed in January 1919.
When was the Treaty of Versailles signed?
A failed telegram from Germany that attempted to convince Mexico to join the central powers in return for its territories in Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico back. The final straw in Us joining the war.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
A man who had been imprisoned for distributing pamphlets against the draft was kept in prison due to the ideology that free speech could be limited when it represented a clear and present danger to public safety.
What is the outcome of Schnek V. US?
Most prevalent form of war.
What is trench warfare?
They sunk the Lusitania.
Who is Germany?
Sunk on May 7, 1915.
What is the Lusitania?
An act that greatly increased the United States Military power in WW I.
What was the National Defense Act?
To punish Germany, to apply the principles of self-determination, and to maintain peace.
What are the three reasons for the Treaty of Versailles was made?
Germany lost its colonies in Asia, and Africa was forced to admit guilt for the war, pay a fine to France and Britain, and accept French Occupation of the Rhineland.
What were Germany's punishments for their involvement in WWI?
The tragedy that pushes Woodrow Wilson to search for lasting peace.
What is the assassination of Francis Ferdinand?
The Sussex.
What is an unarmed merchant ship?