Causes of WWI
The pride in one’s nation or ethnic group that boosted tensions before WWI.
What was nationalism?
Peace plan presented by President Wilson to Congress, in which he outlined his ideas for the future world.
What were the Fourteen Points?
A message from Germany’s foreign minister to Mexico, proposing that Mexico join the war on Germany’s side. In return, Germany would help Mexico reconquer New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona.
What was the Zimmerman Telegram?
Chemical Warfare resulted in the mass production of these defense mechanisms.
What are gas masks?
The glorification of the military
What is militarism?
The alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire.
What were the Central Powers?
Major treaty that dealt with Germany following the war, and created the League of Nations.
What was the Treaty of Versailles?
An American passenger liner that was sunken by a German U-Boat.
What was the Lusitania?
Many Americans feared that Communists or “reds” were behind the labor unrest.
What was the red scare?
Soldiers fire on one another from opposing lines of dugout trenches
What is trench warfare?
The pledge between France, Britain, and Russia that said they would come to one another’s aid If attacked.
What was the alliance system?
A fear of a Communist revolution in America following the war
What was the Red Scare?
A loan to the government that could be redeemed with interest in order to support the war effort.
What are Liberty Bonds (Victory Bonds?)
In September 1918, allied forces pushed forward along a line that stretched from the North Sea to Verdun. More than one million American soldiers advanced on heavily fortified German positions between the Meuse River and the Argonne Forest in northeastern France.
What was the battle of Argonne Forest?
A halt in fighting that allows peace talks to begin
What is an armistice?
The spark that set of the war on June 28th, 1914, in Sarajevo.
What was the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
High unemployment and rising prices as a result of soldiers coming back home, seeking jobs.
What was labor unrest?
A battle where American and French troops responded to Germany’s “peace offensive” mid-1918.
What was the Second battle of the Marne?
Reason why British navy was so successful during sea battles.
What were Submarines?
A labor leader and five-time presidential candidate of the Socialist Party among those jailed for expressing antiwar views
Who was Eugene V. Debs?
The first country to declare war during World War I.
What was Austria–Hungary?
President Wilson and the leaders of the top 3 European Allies, who made major decisions at the peace conference in Paris.
Who were the Big Four?
A U.S. agency that President Woodrow Wilson established during WW1 to produce machinery, airplanes, guns, and ammunition.
What was the War Industries Board?
On this day the German army unleashed a series of daring attacks and the goal of this “peace offense” (as the Germans referred it as) was to defeat the allies quickly and bring peace on German terms.
What happened on March 21, 1918?
A powerful Republican from Massachusetts who was against the League of Nations. His objection was to the proposal that the United States join the League of Nations, and he argued that membership in the League would restrict the right of the United States to act independently in its own interest.
Who was Henry Cabot Lodge?