Significant Events
People
Alliances and settlements
Foreign Policy
100
This political event toppled Czar Nicholas II and established the first Communist state in world history.
What is the Russian Revolution?
100
President of the United States during WWI.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
100
Great Britain, France, Russia… United States (1917).
What are the Allied Powers?
100
A promise to change the naval warfare policy by Germany to the US. Germany had instituted a policy of intensified sub warfare, allowing armed merchant ships, but not passenger ships, to be torpedoed without warning.
What is the Sussex Pledge?
200
This German attack was supposed to win the war for Germany, but it ended up losing it for them.
What is the Battle of the Somme?
200
Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWI.
Who is David Lloyd George?
200
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire
What are the Central Powers?
200
This statement laid out a policy of free trade, open agreements between nations, democracy and the establishment of an international body to maintain security around the world.
What are the Fourteen Points?
300
This disaster saw 128 Americans die and was one of the reasons the United States declared war in 1917.
What is the HMS Lusitania?
300
His assassination set events in motion that eventually led to the outbreak of World War I.
Who is Franz Ferdinand?
300
This was an intergovernmental organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. It was the first international organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace.
What is the League of Nations?
300
Says a nation has the right to freely choose its sovereignty and political, economic and social systems with no external compulsion or interference.
What is self-determination?
400
Peace settlement between France and Great Britain that imposed a harsh set of punishments on Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
400
Prime Minister of France during World War I.
Who is Georges Clemenceau?
400
Signed on March 3, 1918, between the new Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Ottoman Empire), that ended Russia's participation in World War I.
What is the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
400
A broad foreign affairs doctrine that says nations are best served by holding the affairs of other nations at a distance.
What is isolationism?
500
Communication that instructed the German ambassador to approach the Mexican government with a proposal to form a military alliance against the United States. It was intercepted and decoded by the British and its contents hastened the entry of the United States into World War I.
What is the Zimmerman telegram?
500
This man is best known for his positions on foreign policy, especially his battle with President Woodrow Wilson in 1919 over the Treaty of Versailles. He demanded Congressional control of declarations of war.
Who is Henry Cabot Lodge?
500
This refers to the paying of funds and/or transfer of property to amend a wrongdoing or injury done.
What are reparations?
500
The Allied and Associated Governments affirm and Germany accepts the responsibility of Germany and her allies for causing all the loss and damage to which the Allied and Associated Governments and their nationals have been subjected as a consequence of the war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her allies.
What is the War Guilt Clause?
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