This was an effort to keep France isolated diplomatically from the rest of Europe
What is Bismarck's System?
100
Germany's kaiser who forced Bismarck to resign as chancellor
Who is Wilhelm II?
100
France's representative at the Paris Peace Conference
Who is Georges Clemenceau?
100
In 1916 the British introduced these to pierce the entrenched lines of the Central Powers. They had such potential that by the end of the war all sides used them.
What are tanks?
100
Promoted international peace by establishing a peace prize
Who is Alfred Nobel?
200
With this agreement, Germany recognized its present borders with France and Belgium as permanent
What is the Locarno Pact?
200
America's president when the war began in 1914
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
200
This treaty took Russia out of World War I
What is the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
200
Germany used these long, slender airships (similar to modern blimps) to bomb eastern England and London
What are zeppelins?
200
American steel manufacturer and philanthropist
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
300
This term denotes payment for war damages
What is reparations?
300
Austrian archduke who was assassinated on June 28, 1914
Who is Franz Ferdinand?
300
Required Austria to give territory to Italy and recognize the independence of Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Yugoslavia
What is the Treaty of St. Germain?
300
Near the end of the war, the Germans began using these huge guns with a range of 75 to 80 miles.
What are "Big Bertha" guns?
300
This term denotes a cease-fire
What is armistice?
400
With this, Great Britain uncovered a plot to bring Mexico into the war against the United States
What is the Zimmerman Note?
400
Defeated Russian forces at the Battle of Tannenberg
Who is Paul von Hindenburg?
400
Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles blamed Germany and her allies for war damages
What is the "war guilt" clause?
400
This was arguably the #1 reason why Americans wanted to enter into the war against Germany
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
400
This document sought to "unite the civilized nations of the world in a common renunciation of war as an instrument of their national policy"
What is the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
500
Woodrow Wilson proposed this organization in order "to guarantee international cooperation and to achieve international peace and security"
What is the League of Nations?
500
Created a plan for Germany to make manageable war payments
Who is Charles Dawes?
500
This dismantled the Ottoman Empire
What is the Treaty of Sèvres?
500
On May 7, 1915, a German submarine sank this ship off the coast of Ireland, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans
What is the Lusitania?
500
This conference attempted to move the great naval powers (Britain, U. S., Japan, etc.) to disarmament