Overall Causes
the glorification of the military and building a strong military =
Militarism
Germans sunk American ships carrying supplies to the allies using their __________________.
U-Boats
The type of fighting on the Western Front; where soldiers are in dugouts and go up over the top at times to run across a patch of land and fight the enemy
Trench Warfare
Who commanded the South in the Civil War?
Robert E. Lee
What was Woodrow Wilson's plan for peace called?
The 14 Points
Building empires/competing with other countries to get colonies and more resources =
Imperialism
Which country's ruler was overthrown, allowing the US to join the war on the side of democracy?
Russia
The dangerous place in between the trenches =
No Man's Land
Which president believed in Gunboat Diplomacy / Big Stick Diplomacy?
Teddy/Theodore Roosevelt
Self-determination =
The right of a group to decide its own form of government
Gavrilo Princip said that he shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand to free the Serbian people from being ruled by Austria-Hungary. This is an example of which WWI cause?
Nationalism
British ______________, or persuasive media intended to get someone to feel a certain way politically, caused many Americans to want to join the war against the Central Powers
Propaganda
This German pilot was one of the most famous flying aces (80 confirmed kills) in WWI
The Red Baron
Who invented the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
This group provided a place for countries to meet, settle disputes peacefully, and to punish any nation that broke the peace
The League of Nations
List two of the countries in the Triple Entente (Allies)
Britain, France, Russia, the US...
The ship that the Germans sank, resulting in the deaths of 128 Americans, in 1915. This did not directly lead to us declaring war but turned many Americans against Germany
The Lusitania
List two new inventions/technologies that made WWI dangerous
Poison gas, barbed wire, trenches, tanks, airplanes, heavy artillery/guns
What made building the Panama Canal so deadly for the workers?
Disease (Malaria/Yellow Fever, etc.)
The fear of a communist revolution that spread throughout America
The Red Scare
List two countries that were in the Central Powers alliance:
Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire...
This was sent by a German diplomat to Mexico. It told them that if Mexico attacked the US, they would help the US get land back
This was the commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe
John J. Pershing
Who was the first female American millionaire?
Madam CJ Walker
What was one way that the peace treaty punished Germany?
Took away territory on Germany’s borders, Stripped Germany of colonies, Forced Germany to accept full responsibility for the war, Forced Germany to pay reparations