Vocabulary
An agreement between two countries to help each other in times of conflict.
What is an Alliance?
The British Passenger ship that was sank by a German U-boat's torpedo?
What is the Lusitania?
Soldiers developed this condition due standing in the wet muddy, unsanitary conditions of the trenches.
What is "Trench Foot?"
He was President of the United States during WWI.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
WWI was the first war in which these machines were used.
What are airplanes?
Information used to promote or publicize a particular cause. Hint: It usually relies on the use of negative stereotypes.
What is Propoganda?
A German encrypted message intended for Mexico, but was intercepted by the British.
The Zimmerman Telegram
These two pests were responsible for the many of the diseases passed between soldiers in the trenches.
What are rats and lice?
Another name for the 369th Infantry Regiment, an all-black regiment.
This is another name used when referring to WWI.
What is "The Great War" or "The War to End All Wars?"
Refusing to take sides in a conflict.
What is Neutral?
He and his wife were assassinated while visiting Bosnia on June 28th, 1914.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
A reaction soldiers may have experienced as a result of the intensity of bombardment and fighting that produced a helplessness. Could manifest as panic, fear, flight, or an inability to reason, sleep, walk or talk.
What is "Shell Shock?"
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Signed June 28, 1919, this document was signed to officially end WWI.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
A policy of remaining apart from the interests of other groups.
What is Isolationism?
What is Great Britain?
This was declared after no progress was being made on either side using trench warfare.
What is a "stalemate?"
These 4 countries made up the "Central Powers" of WWI.
Who is Austria-Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria, and Ottoman Empire?
This peacekeeping organization was established at the end of WWI, however the US never officially joined due to the isolationists in Congress.
What is the League of Nations?
believing in supporting your country no matter what.
What is Nationalism?
The name of the terrorist organization responsible for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
What is "The Black Hand"
New weapons were developed to end the stalemate, which included these two types of gases.
What is Chlorine & Mustard gas
These 6 countries made up the "Allied Powers" of WWI.
Who is Great Britain, France, Russia, Serbia, Belgium, and the United States?
The name given to the statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end WWI by President Woodrow Wilson.
What are the "Fourteen Points?"