Causes
This system of building up armies increased tension.
What is militarism?
Britain, France, Russia
What are the Allies?
Fighting from dug ditches
What is trench warfare?
Foot disease from wet conditions
Trench Foot
Ship sunk angering U.S.
What is the Lusitania?
This cause involved pride and competition.
What is nationalism?
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire
What are the Central Powers?
Weapon causing choking/blindness
What is poison gas?
Space between trenches
What is no man's land?
Telegram to Mexico
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
This system pulled countries into war quickly.
What are alliances?
Joined Allies in 1915
What is Italy?
Armored vehicles
What are tanks?
Constant explosions
What is artillery fire?
Long deadly 1916 battle
What is Verdun?
This event sparked WWI.
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
Joined war in 1917 due to a telegraph that was intercepted between Mexico and Germany
What is the United States?
German submarines
What are U-boats?
Mental trauma from war
What is shell shock?
Bloody trench battle
What is the Somme?
Competition for colonies and power.
What is imperialism?
Empire that collapsed (Turkey area)
What is the Ottoman Empire?
Fighting in the air
What is aerial warfare?
Two problems in trenches
Mud, disease, danger
Russia leaves war
What is the Russian Revolution?