Key Vocab and People
The president of the U.S. during WWI.
Woodrow Wilson
WWI lasted from when to when (years).
1914-1918
The disease that targeted mostly foot, but also mouth during combat.
Trench foot (trench mouth)
The term coined during WWI for a complete emotional collapse from which many soldiers never recovered.
Shell Shock
Another name for German submarines.
U-boat
Development of armed forces and their use as a tool of diplomacy.
Militarism
List three of the four main causes the textbook gives for the war.
Nationalism, Imperialism, Militarism, and Alliance Systems
Name two of the Central Powers.
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire
Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to Congress, was from which state?
California, Montana, New York or Wyoming
Montana
Between the trench complexes was this barren expanse of mud pockmarked with shell craters and filled with barbed wire.
No Man's Land
Heir to the Austrian throne, assassinated along with his wife.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Aside from the U.S., name two of MAJOR allies in the "Allied Powers".
France, Great Britain, Russia (left after their revolution)
The British blockade made not only weapons and military supplies contraband, but expanded the definition to include this essential resource which outraged Germany.
Food
The strongest nation on the European continent by 1890.
Germany
The capital of France.
Paris
Germany issues this "pledge" to hopefully convince the U.S. not to enter the war. It promised to not sink merchant vessels without warning and without saving human lives.
Sussex Pledge
The name of the group who overthrew the provisional Russian government and set up a Communist state.
Bolsheviks
Before and after the war, the U.S. had most exports to this European nation.
Great Britain
During the First Battle of the Somme final casualties totaled about 1.2 million, yet only ______ miles of ground changed hands.
2, 3, 5 or 7
7
The capital of Belgium.
Brussels
Secret telegram from German foreign minister to German ambassador in Mexico - intercepted and decoded by British agents.
Zimmerman Note
Wilson ran for reelection in 1916 under this slogan.
He Kept Us Out of War
How many Americans died with the U-boat attack on the Lusitania?
28, 128, 1128
128
Marne, Somme, Verdun, or Ypres
Marne
The capital of Austria-Hungary.
Vienna