Causes of World War I
This cause of World War I involved the buildup of a country's military, weapons, and ammunition.
What is militarism?
This American president was in office during World War I and ran on the slogan "He kept us out of war."
Who is President Woodrow Wilson?
What is the Lusitania?
This was an initiative passed by the government during World War I to limit the amount of wheat Americans ate on Monday's and Wednesday's.
What are Wheatless Monday's and Wednesday's?
This is the document that said Germany must take full responsibility for starting World War I.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This cause of World War I involved the conquering of African and Asian nations to show off a given country's strength to other foreign powers.
What is Imperialism?
This is the policy of not supporting or helping either side in a conflict, disagreement, war, etc.
What is neutrality?
This is the German policy of attacking any ship that enters the British Isles, declaring these waters a war zone, resulting in the sinking of commercial and civilian Allied ships by u-boats.
What is German Unrestricted Submarine Warfare?
This is the name given to dachshunds during the World War I era to represent a cultural change due to the anti-German sentiment that began as a result of World War I.
What are liberty pups?
This is the document that said there should be "equal trade conditions" and "open diplomacy with no secret treaties."
What are President Wilson's Fourteen Points?
This foreign leader was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist, leading to the formal declaration of war to begin World War I.
***Please provide the name of the leader and his country!!!
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary?
This is how the American public felt towards the United States becoming involved in World War I at the OUTBREAK OF WORLD WAR I IN 1914.
What is unsupportive or anti-war?
This country was the intended receiver of the Zimmermann Telegram, and their task was to ______________.
Who is Mexico, and their task was to keep the United States neutral in the war (meaning they did not fight against Germany).
This was the name given to a garden that an American household created and ate from during the World War I era to conserve food for the soldiers fighting in the war.
What is a victory garden?
This is the document that is MORE STRICT on the consequences associated with restoring peace to Europe following World War I AND ONE EXAMPLE to support this point.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Supporting Points:
1. Germany has to pay excessive money.
2. Germany has to take full responsibility.
3. Germany has to limit their military and weapons.
This is the definition of nationalism, one of the five main causes of World War I.
What is "blind devotion to one's country, or an extreme patriotism where a citizen is willing to kill or be killed for their country?"
These countries are TWO ALLIES that the United States traded with prior to the United States' involvement in World War I, even though they did not officially join the war until 1917.
Who are Great Britain and France?
These are the THREE STATES Germany promised to give to Mexico in the Zimmermann Telegram, which was intercepted by Great Britain.
What are
1. New Mexico
2. Texas
3. Arizona
This is a book that contains coupons that would specify the amount of a particular type of food or good that could be bought and used during the World War I era.
Example: one coupon for meat may get you 8 oz. of steak
What are ration stamps?
These are 2 countries that participated in drafting the Treaty of Versailles.
Who are the United States, Great Britain, and France?
These are the alliances of World War I.
***Please name all 6 major countries involved AND who their allies were!!!
What is the
Triple Entente: Great Britain, France, & Russia, and the Triple Alliance: Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy?
These are 3 reasons why the United States wanted to remain neutral in World War I.
What is
1. Americans cared more about domestic than foreign issues.
2. Americans felt divided over their European roots.
3. The war was happening on another continent.
These are THREE REASONS why the United States abandoned neutrality and declared war on Germany in 1917.
What is
1. The sinking of the Lusitania
2. The Zimmermann Telegram
3. German Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
This is the reason why the federal government passed initiatives to limit the amount of wheat, meat, fuel, etc. bought and used by the American public during World War I.
What is rationing to have food, fuel, and supplies to send to soldiers fighting in Europe during the war?
These are TWO DIFFERENCES between President Wilson's Fourteen Points and the Treaty of Versailles.
What are
1. Treaty of Versailles blamed only Germany.
2. Wilson's 14 Points created the League of Nations.
3. Treaty of Versailles punished Germany with a large amount of war debt.
4. 14 Points told everyone to reduce their weapons; Treaty of Versailles said only Germany had to.