World War 1-1
A union formed between countries for shared benefit. A partnership.
What is an Alliance?
The American president during WWI.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
Name the reasons 4 WWI started.
What is MAIN. Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism?
The treaty that ended the First World War in Europe; it put harsh rules on Germany. The US did not sign.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
The US joined WWI in this year.
What is 1917?
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire formed this alliance group.
Who were the Central Powers?
France, Great Britain, Russia formed this alliance group.
Who were the Allied Powers?
A message urging Mexico to attack the U.S. in return for their land back. Sent by Germany.
What is the Zimmerman telegram?
A fictional character created by the U.S. government to encourage men to join the Army.
Who is Uncle Sam?
An agreement to cease hostilities and stop fighting.
What is an armistice?
The taking over of another nation's land, usually for economic gain.
What is Imperialism?
Organization formed after WWI to promote peace and to settle disputes peacefully instead of going to war. The US did NOT join.
What is the League of Nations?
A British cruise-liner with 128 Americans on it - torpedoed by a German submarine.
What is the Lusitania?
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary was assassinated.
What event started WW1 in Europe?
German Submarines used in World War I to try to form a British blockade
What are U-Boats?
Many African Americans moved from the South to Northern cities looking for better jobs and less discrimination and violence.
What is the Great Migration?
Payments to cover damages (in war).
What are reparations?
Belief that one's nation, or a group of people within that nation are superior to all others.
What is Nationalism?
Spreading of information with the specific intention of altering someone's viewpoints of behavior.
What is Propaganda?
American Expeditionary Forces (AEF)
American soldiers who fought in Europe were known as?
Information designed to influence people's opinions or actions.
What is propaganda?
Most common form of fighting in World War after 1914 as the armies tried to build new defenses across France.
The belief that a nation should not just have strong armed forces (military) but that they can be used to further its diplomatic goals or gain new territories and not just in defense.
Name any two main points of Wilson's 14-point peace plan.
fewer secret agreements, freedom of the seas, reduced arms, self-determination for nations, a new international organization to prevent future wars
Name two reasons the US got involved in WWI.
1. Unrestricted submarine warfare.
2. The sinking of the Lusitania.
3. Zimmerman Telegram