Causes of WWI
The assassination of this Archduke officially started WWI.
Franz Ferdinand
In which year did WWI officially begin?
1914
Allied Powers, Central Powers
Which country left the Allied Powers in 1917?
Russia
What is the full name of PCA Korea's principal?
Sophia Chin
What were the four main causes of WWI?
Militarism, alliances, nationalism, imperialism
________________ is the idea that all the countries involved in the fighting of a war leverage every one of their military, economic, and domestic resources in order to win the war.
Total War
During WWI, civilians had a limit to how much food they could eat per day because of what?
Rations
Which two events led to the US joining WWI?
Sinking of the Lusitania, Interception of the Zimmerman Telegram
Name the pair of sisters who are both currently enrolled in the 10th grade.
Jia and Clara Lee
Explain how nationalism and patriotism are different.
Patriotism is when someone has love and loyalty for his/her country. Nationalism refers to a strong sense of loyalty, identification, or allegiance with one’s own nation and people, often to the exclusion of other people.
What were the four major provisions of the Treaty of Versailles?
War Guilt Clause
Reparations
Demilitarization
Land Cessions
DAILY DOUBLE
What was the original purpose of the League of Nations?
Woodrow Wilson wanted to create a worldwide representative body where nations could negotiate their problems collectively and peacefully instead of simply going to war together.
What were the names of the three major world leaders involved during the discussions at the Paris Peace Conference?
Georges Clemenceau, David Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson
Dr. Jennifer Lloyd is from which US state?
West Virginia
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A Serbian nationalist group called the _______________ was responsible for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in ________________ (city name).
Black Hand, Sarajevo
What is self-determination? Which major cause of WWI does it pertain to?
Self-determination is synonymous with the term sovereignty. It is the idea that a country should be able to determine its own statehood and form its own allegiances/government.
Identify at least four symbols of propaganda within the American propaganda poster that I showed you during class.
1. Destroy this brute
2. The brute = Germany
3. Bat that says "kultur"
4. Europe destroyed in the background
5. Brute crosses the ocean into American soil
6. Brute kidnaps Lady Liberty.
Describe the significance of machine guns in WWI.
Although machine guns had been invented prior to WWI, by the time of the war, machine guns had advanced enough to shoot 500 rounds per minute, contributing to the high death toll.
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Correctly spell Maxim's last name.
Tikhomirov
This French economist famously predicted the start of WWI in 1895, almost 20 years before the actual start of the war.
Frederic Passy
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What does Woodrow Wilson mean when he talks about freedom of the seas? How does it pertain to unrestricted submarine warfare?
By mentioning freedom of the seas, Wilson proposed that all nations should be able to navigate all of the world's seas without fear of attack. Germany's policy of unrestricted submarine warfare led to the sinking of the Lusitania, one of the two major causes of America joining WWI.
In total, how much did Germany have to pay in reparations in the aftermath of WWI/the Treaty of Versailles
132 billion gold marks
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Besides the fact that Mexico lies directly beneath America, why did Germany try to contact Mexico through the Zimmerman Telegram.
Roughly 70 years prior to WWI (during the Mexican-American War), Mexico had lost roughly half of its territory to America. In the Zimmerman Telegram, Germany tried to convince Mexico to form a secret alliance to destroy America and to re-claim the territories that Mexico had ceded to America.
Aaron is originally from which city in Pakistan?
Karachi