The Stage is Set for War
A military alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy in the years preceding World War I ...
Answer: Triple Alliance.
In World War I, the nations of Great Britain, France, and Russia, along with other nations that fought on their side ...
Answer: Allies.
The use of submarines to sink without warning any ship (including neutral ships and unarmed passenger liners) found in an enemy’s waters ...
Answer: unrestricted submarine warfare.
28th president of the U.S., 1913-21: received Nobel peace prize in 1918 ...
Answer: Woodrow Wilson.
A military alliance between Great Britain, France, and Russia in the years preceding World War I ...
Answer: Triple Entente.
In World War I, the nations of Germany and Austria-Hungary, along with the other nations that fought on their side ...
Answer: Central Powers.
A conflict in which the participating countries devote all their resources to the war effort ...
Answer: total war.
A series of proposals in which U.S. president Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a lasting peace after World War I ...
Answer: Fourteen Points.
A policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army always prepared for war ...
Answer: militarism.
Germany’s military plan at the outbreak of World War I, according to which German troops would rapidly defeat and then move east to attack Russia ...
Answer: Schlieffen Plan.
The limiting of the amount of goods people can buy – often imposed by governments during wartime, when goods are in short supply ...
Answer: rationing.
The peace treaty signed by Germany and the Allied powers after World War I ...
Answer: Treaty of Versailles.
A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, economically, or socially ...
Answer: imperialism.
In World War I, the region of northern France where the forces of the Allies and the Central Powers battled each other ...
Answer: Western Front.
Information or material spread to advance a cause or to damage an opponent’s cause ...
Answer: propaganda.
An international association formed after World War I with the goal of keeping peace among nations ...
Answer: League of Nations.
German emperor from 1888 until he abdicated in 1918 ...
Answer: Wilhelm II.
A form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield ...
Answer: trench warfare.
An agreement to stop fighting ...
Answer: armistice.
French statesman, journalist, editor, author, and physician: premier of France, 1906-09 and 1917-20 ...
Answer: Georges Clemenceau.