Marching Toward War
This policy, the idea of improving a country's military power & size, helped fuel rivalries before WW1.
What is militarism?
This is the TWO major alliance group names used during WW1 for Germany & A-H vs Britain, France, & Russia.
What are:
- Central Powers
- Allied Powers
This is the campaign where the Allies attempted to seize the Dardanelles & capture Constantinople.
What is:
- the Gallipoli Campaign?
This group of people filled factory jobs, built tanks, and ran hospitals while soldiers were off fighting.
Who is / are: Women?
This is the President of the United States who proposed the Fourteen Points.
Who is: Woodrow Wilson?
The 1870s-80s German chancellor who aimed to isolate France & formed alliances.
What / Who is: Otto von Bismarck?
This is the German plan to quickly defeat France in the west, then rush east to fight Russia.
What is:
- The Schlieffen Plan
This is the German policy of sinking ships in British waters with no restrictions.
What is: unrestricted submarine warfare?
This is the term referring to government actions that limited civilian purchases of goods so more could go to the military.
What is: rationing?
This is the international organization proposed in Wilson's Fourteen Points to help negotiate world conflicts.
What is: the League of Nations?
This is the name of the alliance that originally included Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.
What is: The Triple Alliance?
This is the term for the long, dug-in style of fighting that created a stalemate on the Western Front.
What is:
- Trench Warfare
This is the 1915 sinking of this British passenger ship killed over 100 Americans and outraged the U.S. citizens.
What is:
- the Lusitania?
This is the term referring to the one-sided information the governments used to shape public opinion & boost morale.
What is: propaganda?
This is the treaty that officially ended WW1 and forced Germany to pay reparations, signed at Versailles in 1919.
What is: The Treaty of Versailles?
When Kaiser Wilhelm II allowed a treaty with this country to expire, it led that country to ally with France.
What / Who is: Russia?
This is the battle near Paris in early Sept. 1914 that forced a German retreat and helped produce a stalemate.
What is:
- The First Battle of the Marne
This is the intercepted 1917 telegram that proposed a German-Mexican alliance and pushed the U.S. toward war.
What is: the Zimmermann Note ( or Telegram )
This refers to the wartime idea that a nation devotes all its resources to the war effort.
What is: Total War?
This is the term for the principle that people should be able to choose their own governments, promoted by Wilson's plans.
What is: self - determination?
This is the area where Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in 1914.
What is:
- Bosnia & Herzegovina
- Sarajevo
This is the name of the two major 1916 battles on the Western Front that produced massive casualties.
What is:
- Battle of Verdun
- Battle of the Somme
This is the exact date President Wilson asked Congress to declare war on Germany. ( Exact day, month, and year )
What is: April 2nd, 1917?
This is two ways governments controlled the economy during total war.
What is:
- Censored news
- Directed factories on what / how much to produce
This is three new or re-created nations that came about after the war.
What is:
- Czechoslovakia
- Yugoslavia
- Finland
- Estonia
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Austria
- Hungary
- Romania