Central Powers
Countries and/or empires part of the Central Powers
What is Austria-Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire?
Countries and/or empires part of the Allies
What is Serbia, Russia, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Belgium, and the United States?
Usage of propaganda
What is governments used propaganda to motivate military mobilization, to urge civilians to loan money to the government, or exaggerate or distort events?
Another name for the Spanish Flu
What is the "Forgotten Pandemic"?
People who fell under the title proletariat
What is the growing class of factory and railroad workers, miners, and urban wage earners?
Who used U-boats and what were they used for
What is Germany and German submarines commonly used to sink merchant ships
Organized groups of merchant ships protected by warships from German U-boat attacks
What is convoys?
Calls of peace began because
What is long casualty lists, food shortages, and the failure of generals to win promised victories?
More people died from the Spanish Flu than what event
What is World War I?
Leader of the Bolsheviks
What is V.I. Lenin?
The Turks cut off crucial Allied supply lines to Russia through this strait
What is the Dardanelles?
America joined the Allies because
What is Germany resumed unrestricted submarine warfare and it was revealed Germany would help Mexico conquer "the lost territory in New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona" for Mexican support against the U.S.
the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk is
What is a treaty signed by V.I. Lenin to end Russia's participation in World War I?
Age group highly affected by the Spanish Flu
What is the ages of 20s-40s?
Civil war raged between the reds and the whites who were
What is the reds were the Communists and the whites were all those who desired to defeat the Bolsheviks (tsarist imperial officers, Mensheviks, democrats...)?
A country from the central powers that was the first to use poison gas out of both sides of the war
What is Germany?
The Allies blamed the conflict on their defeated foes and insisted that the losers do this
What is make reparations, or payments for war damage?
Women assisted men in winning the war by
what is taking over men's jobs, working in war industries, joining women's branches of the armed forces, nursing the injured, and growing crops.
Reason Spanish Flu spread rapidly around the globe
What is soldiers were infected, lived closely together, and were traveling all of the world for combat?
Lenin's communist government united much of the old Russian empire into this
What is the Soviet Union?
Bulgaria joined the central powers and helped defeat what old Balkan rival
What is Serbia?
Wilson issued this list for resolving the Great War and future wars
What is the Fourteen Points?
Germany did this to end fighting with the Allies and the day they did it, declaring the end of the war was
What is they sought an armistice (or an agreement to end fighting) and November 11, 1918?
The Spanish Flu got it's name because
Spain's media wasn't heavily censored during wartime and so that country's media made it look like Spain was the worst country hit of all
Joseph Stalin's competitor was named this and in summary, he fled the country for this reason
What is Trotsky and Stalin isolated Trotsky within the party and stripped him of his membership?