Causes
What acronym can help us remember the causes of WWI?
What is MAIN.
Give one reason that the United States finally entered WWI.
What is the sinking of the Lusitania or the Zimmerman telegram?
Give the definition of the word, alliance.
What is an agreement to protect each other or to be "friends".
What was the dangerous new weapon that soldiers would breathe?
What is poison gas or mustard/chlorine gas.
Name an empire that was now gone after WWI.
What is the Ottoman, Russian, German, or Austro-Hungarian?
Why were Alliances a major cause of WWI?
What is they had made an agreement to help if the other country was attacked.
Give 2 ways that women contributed during this war.
What is sewing uniforms, nurses, driving ambulances, working in the factories, etc.
Name 1 negative of having an alliance.
What is betraying or disagreements.
What were the ditches called that soldiers would fight and live in?
What are trenches.
Countries were in a large amount of _________ after the war.
What is debt?
Many countries wanted more power and land so they built up their___________.
What is military or armed forces.
What was the "trigger" that sparked WWI?
What is the assassination (of Francis Ferdinand0.
Give 2 positives of having an alliance.
What is trade, having your back, and resources.
Name 2 new weapons used during the Great War.
What are tanks, machine guns, planes, submarines, poison gas, flame throwers, etc.
Name 2 new countries that started after this war.
What are Poland, Latvia, Turkey, Yugoslavia, etc.
Give the definition of nationalism.
What is a strong sense of pride for one's own nation.
Name 3 things that makes a country powerful.
What is good military, fair or strong government, alliances, good economy, etc.
Name 3 Allied Powers.
What is Great Britain, France, United States, Russia, Italy. etc
Give one negative of trench warfare.
What are mud, rats, bombs dropping in, etc.
This disease killed more people than the war or the Black Plague.
What is the Spanish Flu or the influenza?
What does imperialism mean and give one country that controlled a lot of land.
What is a country that increases its wealth and power by taking new lands. Great Britain is the example.
Why did the Serbian Nationalist assassinate the Archduke of Austria-Hungary and his wife?
What is due to their anger that Austria-Hungary was taking some of their land and they wanted to be independent.
Name 3 Central Powers that were an alliance.
What is Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire or Bulgaria.
What made the Great War more dangerous and deadly than previous wars in history?
What is the advanced technology or types of weapons such as machine guns and gas.
Name the new type of government that started in Russia (Soviet Union).
What is communism?