Causes
The assassination of this individual and his wife in Sarajevo in June 1914 was the short-term cause of the war.
Who was Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
This Dual Monarchy ceased to exist by the end of WWI.
What is Austria-Hungary?
The process that drove the development of new and deadlier weapons during the war.
What is Industrialization?
The type of warfare most closely associated with World War I.
What is trench warfare?
The 3 Allied powers most responsible for the Treaty of Versailles.
Who are Great Britain, France, and the United States?
The naval arms race between Great Britain and Germany that produced battleships such as the British Dreadnought is an example of this WWI cause
What is Militarism?
This empire withdrew from the war in 1917 while in the midst of revolution back home that resulted in the overthrow of the Romanov family, and the creation of the world's first communist state.
What is Russia?
These armored vehicles were first used by the British at the Battle of the Somme in September 1916.
What are tanks?
The German plan that required a quick defeat of Russia that would then allow the German army to focus all its power on France.
What was the Schlieffen Plan?
Portion of the treaty that required Germany to accept full responsibility for causing the war.
What is the war guilt clause?
Pride in one's nation, the desire to be independent, and one of the driving causes of the assassination that sparked the war.
What is nationalism?
In part due to the harshness of the peace treaty, Germany underwent economic hardships that eventually led to the rise of Adolf Hitler and this war.
What is World War II?
These weapons forced military officers on both sides to change tactics, quickly resulting in the development of trenches and a stalemate on the Western Front.
What is the Machine Gun?
Term for the land between two trenches.
What is No Man's Land?
Payments that were to be made by Germany to France, Great Britain, and other nations as restitution for damages caused during the war.
What are reparations?
The process of dominating another nation in order to possess an empire, create markets for manufactured goods, and to remove raw materials resulted in competition among European nations that eventually led to war
What is Imperialism?
The number of estimated deaths, military and civilian, due to World War I.
What is 40 million?
This WWI weapon was introduced by Germany at Ypres in 1915 and was designed to break the trench stalemate. Its effects were blindness, blistering, suffocation, and often death.
What is Poison Gas?
Phrase used to describe the initial attack from a trench.
What is Over the Top?
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson's plan for peace; most of it was disregarded by Britain and France.
What are the 14 Points?
A system of agreements among nations that called for one to support the other in case of an attack with no questions asked.
What are Alliances?
This organization, the idea of Woodrow Wilson and a forerunner to the United Nations, was designed to maintain world peace. However, the U.S. failed to join and it had very little power to prevent nations from doing much of anything.
What is the League of Nations?
This piece of naval technology was used most efficiently by Germany, and was one of the causes of U.S. intervention in the war in 1917.
What is the U-Boat?
Exposure and wet feet for prolonged periods of time in the trenches could lead to this.
What is trench foot?
This nation, a major participant in the war, had no voice when it came to the terms for peace.
What is Germany?