Causes of WWI
This acronym helps students remember the four main long-term causes of WWI.
What is "M.A.I.N."?
This country was a member of the Triple Alliance and later led the Central Powers.
What is Germany?
This rapid-fire weapon caused massive casualties on the battlefield.
What is a machine gun?
This year the United States entered World War I.
What is 1917?
This year World War I ended.
What is 1918?
The four long-term causes of World War I.
What is militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism?
This country was part of the Triple Entente and fought alongside France and Russia.
What is Great Britain?
This type of warfare resulted in a stalemate because neither side could easily advance.
What is trench warfare?
This secret message from Germany encouraged Mexico to attack the United States.
What is The Zimmerman Note?
This treaty officially ended WWI and punished Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This term describes strong pride and loyalty to one’s country.
What is nationalism?
This alliance included Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy before the war began.
What is The Triple Alliance?
These poisonous weapons caused painful injuries and forced soldiers to wear gas masks.
What are mustard gas and chlorine gas?
These German submarine attacks on ships with Americans aboard increased support for war in the U.S.
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
This term describes the payments Germany was forced to make after the war.
What are reparations?
This Slavic nationalist group was responsible for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
What was The Blank Hand?
This alliance included France, Great Britain, and Russia before WWI.
What is The Triple Entente?
These German submarines attacked ships and helped bring the U.S. into the war.
What are U-boats?
This U.S. president ran for his 2nd term on a promise to keep the U.S. out of war, but ultimately asked Congress to declare war on Germany.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This new international organization was created after WWI to help keep peace.
What is The League of Nations
This region was known as the “Powder Keg of Europe” because of its ethnic tensions and nationalist movements.
What is The Balkans?
This wartime alliance grew over the course of WWI to include countries such as the United States and Italy.
The Allies
This advantage gave the Allies fresh troops and supplies in 1917–1918, helping shift the balance of the war.
What is U.S. military reinforcement?
These two major events pushed the United States to join the Allies in 1917.
What was the sinking of the Lusitania and the Zimmerman Telegram?
These factors in Germany after WWI helped create conditions for the rise of Adolf Hitler.
What is resentment and economic hardship caused by the Treaty of Versailles?