Headed Toward War
The War Begins
America Enters
After the War
Vocabulary
100
Two countries that were in conflict in the late 1800s because of a problem caused by imperialism.
What are France and Germany?
100
The way in which new weapons used in the Great War were different from previous wars?
What is they were more destructive?
100
The British ship sunk by a German submarine in 1915 with 128 US citizens on board.
What is the Lusitania?
100
The number of points made by President Wilson.
What is fourteen?
100
Rapid increase in prices
What is inflation?
200
This was formed before the Triple Entente, before Austria-Hungary claimed two Serbian provinces, and before Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated.
What is the Triple Alliance?
200
This weapon was a silent killer.
What is poison gas?
200
The policy adopted by the US when the war broke out in 1914 that reflected that many people did not want to get involved in the war.
What is a policy of neutrality?
200
The country that opposed President Wilson's ideas for peace with Germany.
What is France.
200
Sums of money paid for war losses
What are reparations?
300
Competition among nations caused by nationalism and imperialism, for example.
What is a major cause of WWI?
300
The reason the Battles of the Somme and Verdun were different from other battles during the war.
What is they both had an extremely high number of casualties?
300
The reason the U.S. entered World War I.
What is G.B. discovered a telegraph between Germany and Mexico that caused U.S. citizens to get mad at Germany and want to fight back.
300
Austria-Hungary, Germany, Russia, Ottoman
What are the empires that ceased to exist after the Great War?
300
Mass killing, for example the Armenians by the Ottoman Empire.
What is holocaust?
400
Reason alliances among European countries pushed them toward the great war.
What is they began to mobilize for war in order to defend each other.
400
Five weapons used in the Great War that had not yet been used in any major war.
What are the machine gun, the tank, poison gas, airplanes, and trenches or tanks.
400
They became additional Allied casualties.
What is the effect that the first US troops had on the war?
400
The way the reparations ordered by the Treaty of Versailles affected Germany.
What is the country experienced high inflation that caused an economic collapse.
400
Preparations for war, especially troops
What is mobilization?
500
After a war in 1870-1871.
What is the time Germany took over two provinces from France?
500
Teaching soldiers how to use gas masks, driving ambulances, working in factories, growing crops to feed everyone, sewing uniforms and sheets, acting as nurses.
What are jobs for women during the war?
500
Russia suffered terrible casualties on the Eastern front, their economy had collapsed, and little food and fuel were available.
What is the reason Russians were ready for a revolution? (or why the war did not go well for Russians)
500
The ways in which Germany was punished by the Treaty of Versailles.
What are being ordered to accept blame, remove defenses from its border with France and pay for war losses (reparations, fines).
500
Cease-fire, happened November 11, 1918.
What is armistice?
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