Underlying Causes
Terms
Cause and Effects
United States in the War
End of the War
100
Rivalry between Germany and Britain's navy
militarism
100
What is Total War?
channeling of a nation's entire resources into a war effort
100
When Germany offered a "blank check" to Austria-Hungrary it caused what to happen?
Austria sent Serbia an ultimatium
100
Woodrow Wilson believed America was responsible for what
Making the world safe for democracy
100
The main goal of the Pan-Slavic movement in Serbia was
free Serbia from Austrian domination
200
Militarism in Germany was due to this other cause that bred competition
Imperialism
200
vast stretches of mud, rusty barbed wire, lined with dugouts and cellars
trenches
200
Germany brought this country into the war when they invaded Belgium
Great Britain
200
This message from Germany to Mexico was intercepted by the British
Zimmerman Telegram
200
Russia faced severe causalities because of what
poorly equipped army
300
What was the cause for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Nationalism
300
This military technology allowed troops to attack targets more than 10 miles away
long range artillery gun
300
These weapons caused a stalemate because it made it difficult for troops to advance
rapid fire machine guns
300
This was the final reason the USA entered the Great War, Britain could not win alone
Russian Revolution
300
Lenin promised the peasants he would do this to the land
end private ownership and distribute the land to the peasants
400
If this was not set up, the war would have been between two countries, and not a world war
System of Alliances
400
radical, socialist group in Russia, led by Lenin
Bolsheviks
400
The allies used these to fight the German u-boats
convoys
400
USA was this before they entered the war
Isolationists
400
This country was forced to take all the blame of WWI
Germany
500
What are the 4 underlying causes of World War I
Imperialism, Nationalism, Militarism, and System of Alliances
500
ultimatum
a final set of demands
500
Why did soldiers in African colonies want to fight for their mother country? For example, India. 
They expected that their services would be a step toward self-rule or independence
500
Woodrow Wilson came up with this organization that he would later not let the USA join
League of Nations
500
This treaty ended WWI
Treaty of Versailles
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