Causes of WWI
Identify the MAIN causes of World War 1
Militarism
Alliances
Imperialism
Nationalism
What was the animal that often fed on corpses and eventually grew to the size of a household cat?
Rats
True or False: Trench Warfare developed as a result of industrialization in western European Nations
True
Why occured in 1917 that prompted Russia to leave WW1?
Russian Revolution
What is the psychological condition also known as "shell shock" called?
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Which country's neutrality was violated that it led Britain to declar war?
Belgium
What is the region between the opposing sides' trenches called?
No Man's Land
What is it called when the entire society's economy mobilizes for war and the line between the home and the battle front is blured
Total War
Where did the peace conference of WW1 take place?
Paris/ Versailles
What are intellectuals and artists who became disillusioned by WW1 called?
The Lost Generation
Name 3 countries that are part of the same alliance in WW1.
Allies: Great Britain, Russia, France, US, Italy, Japan
Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria
What was committed by the Turks in the caucasus that decimated 1.5 million people?
Armenian Genocide
Which country first employed the use of chemical warfare during WW1? And what is this called?
Germany; poison gas
When did WW1 effectively end? Month, Date, Year
November 11, 1918
Name 1 nation born from the redrawing of Europe after WW1?
Czechoslovakia, Poland, Austria, Hungary, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, , Belarus, Finland, Yugoslavia
Who did Gavrilo Princip, a young Bosnian Serb nationalist, assassinate in 1914? Name, title
Franz Ferdinand, archduke of Austria-Hungarian empire
What was the name of the plan that Germany came up with in order to avoid a two-front war?
Schlieffen Plan
This modern invention/warfare was developed in order to break the stalemate in the trenches.
Tanks
What is President Woodrow Wilson's proposal, in early 1919, for peace and unity called?
Fourteen Points
What was the clause that Germans came to resent the most in the peace treaty?
War Guilt Clause
Sarajevo
What were the two main reasons that the US entered WW1?
sinking of Lusitania, Zimmerman telegram
What was the German submarine that participated in "unrestricted submarine warfare" called?
German U-boats
What was the name of the treaty that ended the war between Germany and Russia?
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
What is the name of the alliance proposed by Woodrow Wilson but Congress never ratified, therefore, lacked power?
League of Nations