This alliance included Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary.
What is the Triple Alliance?
The primary type of warfare used on the Western Front during World War I.
What is trench warfare?
This term describes the complete mobilization of a nation’s resources for war.
What is total war?
This U.S. President proposed the Fourteen Points as a framework for peace.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This country destabilized the balance of power in Europe with its growing military and industrial strength before World War I.
What is Germany?
This German military plan aimed to quickly knock France out of the war before turning to Russia.
What is the Schlieffen Plan?
The economic hardship many nations faced during the war was due to this financial issue.
What is inflation caused by printing paper money?
This clause in the Treaty of Versailles held Germany responsible for starting World War I.
What is the war guilt clause?
The Triple Entente included these three nations.
What are France, Russia, and Great Britain?
These two major battles on the Western Front caused nearly 2 million casualties.
What are the Battle of Verdun and the Battle of the Somme?
This British passenger ship's sinking by German U-boats helped draw the United States into the war.
What is the Lusitania?
Why did Russia lose territory in the post-war settlements despite being on the winning side?
What is because of its weakened state after the 1917 Revolution?
Why did Balkan nationalism destabilize the region and lead to tensions in Europe?
What is ethnic nationalism among Balkan peoples?
Name one technological advancement that significantly increased the destruction during World War I.
What are machine guns, poison gas, long-range artillery, or tanks?
Nations used this tool to inspire patriotism and maintain public support for the war.
What is propaganda?
The League of Nations placed territories taken from Germany and the Ottoman Empire under this system.
What are mandates?
Which specific event in Sarajevo triggered the start of World War I?
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
This Allied offensive was the final push against German forces in September 1918.
What is the Battle of the Argonne Forest?
During World War I, the Armenian Genocide led to the suffering and death of over a million Armenians. What was one primary method used by the Ottoman Empire to target the Armenian population?
What are death marches into the Syrian desert?
This post-war art movement reflected the disillusionment caused by the horrors of World War I.
What is Surrealism?