The Nature of War
What is total war?
This term describes how World War I mobilized all aspects of society, blurring the lines between civilians and soldiers.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
The treaty that ended World War I and imposed harsh terms on Germany.
During the war, women took on these types of jobs traditionally held by men.
What are factory and transportation jobs?
Wartime economies struggled to transition back, leading to these economic challenges across Europe.
What are unemployment, inflation, and economic hardship?
What is the League of Nations?
The organization envisioned by Wilson to prevent future conflicts but weakened by U.S. non-participation.
What are planned economies?
These expanded roles included rationing, price controls, and centralized management of industries during the war.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This U.S. President proposed the Fourteen Points, advocating for self-determination and a League of Nations
What is the women's suffrage movement?
The contributions of women during World War I helped advance this political movement.
France sought these two things from Germany during peace negotiations.
What are security and reparations?
Refugees from these two regions fled devastation caused by the war.
What are Eastern Europe and the Balkans?
What is propaganda?
One of the key tools used by governments to maintain civilian morale during World War I.
These three leaders dominated the Paris Peace Conference negotiations.
Wilson, Clemenceau, and Lloyd George?
One of the social consequences of World War I was the breakup of these three major empires.
What are the Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman, and Russian Empires?
This system of expanded government control during the war restricted freedoms and increased state involvement in citizens' lives.
What are planned wartime economies?
The Treaty of Versailles required Germany to accept this controversial clause.
What is the war guilt clause?
What is the Defence of the Realm Act?
This act allowed Britain to suppress dissent, arrest protesters, and censor the press.
This system divided former Ottoman and German territories under Allied control
What is the mandate system?
Millions of soldiers returned home with these lasting impacts, influencing post-war politics and society.
physical and mental scars
The war shattered the belief in this idea, which previously held that society was progressing toward a better future.
What is liberal progress?
Promises made to Arab allies during the war were contradicted by this post-war arrangement.
What is the mandate system?
What is the 1918 influenza pandemic?
This global pandemic exacerbated the horrors of World War I, killing an estimated 50 million people.
Name the two regions returned to France under the Treaty of Versailles.
What are Alsace and Lorraine?
After the war, many women lost jobs as men returned, but they gained this significant political right in several countries.
What is the right to vote?
Unresolved tensions and economic instability after World War I eventually led to this global conflict.
What is World War II?
The instability created by World War I set the stage for the rise of this political ideology in Europe.
What is fascism?