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This was the treaty that made peace between Germany and the Allies. Germany was disarmed, lost its colonies to the League of Nations, returned Alsace-Lorraine to France, was forced to pay war reparations, and made to accept responsibility for starting the war.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
100
This is the definition of "militarism."
What is the policy of growing your military, glorifying it, and keeping it prepared for war?
100
This is the name of the alliance that included Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.
What is the Triple Alliance?
100
This is the definition of "rationing."
What is people could only buy or use a small amount of a resource at home needed for the war effort abroad?
100
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
200
This is the definition of an "armistice."
What is a formal cease-fire to halt hostilities so a peace agreement can be reached?
200
This is the definition and purpose of propaganda.
What is one-sided information put out to either persuade your side to fight or harm the enemy's morale?
200
This is the name of the alliance that included Britain, France, and Russia.
What is the Triple Entente?
200
This is the link between industrialization, imperialism, and militarism.
What is countries seize colonies to gain resources to feed their industries, then they use these industries to create the weapons necessary to have a larger army to protect these colonies?
200
What is the sinking in 1915 of the Lusitania - which was a valid military target and the German government warned they would sink - outraged Americans after 128 of them perished on board, and this prompted Germany to halt its unrestricted submarine warfare until 1917?
300
Beyond the direction they were in, this was the primary difference between the Eastern Front and the Western Front.
What is that on the Eastern Front combat was more mobile and the front was more fluid, while on the Western Front the fighting bogged down into a trench warfare stalemate?
300
The Balkans were known as this.
What is the "powder keg" or "tinderbox" of Europe?
300
This is the definition of "national self-determination."
What is the freedom of a people to decide whether they want to be an independent nation and what form of government they should have?
300
This was the goal of Germany's policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.
What is to sink enough Allied shipping that Britain would starve to death?
300
Who is Gavrilo Princip?
400
These are four technologies or tactics that made the First World War a "modern war."
What are machine guns, artillery, tanks, and poison gas?
400
This is why Russia saw itself as Serbia's "big brother" and protector.
What is that they were both majority Slavic nations, and nationalism compelled Slavs to stick together?
400
This is what the League of Nations was, and what its expressed purpose was.
What is an international conference designed to act as a mediator in international disputes so that all future wars can be avoided?
400
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Describe the Gallipoli Campaign and its goal.
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What is that the Allies would land on the Gallipoli Peninsula, seize the Dardanelles and take Constantinople, thereby gaining access to the Black Sea so they could send Russia supplies?
400
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
500
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This is what the Schlieffen Plan called for.
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What is send a smaller portion of your army to the east to hold off a Russian attack, while the majority of your army sweeps down through Belgium, takes Paris and knocks France out, then continues around and on to the eastern front to fight Russia before it fully mobilizes?
500
Describe Wilson's Fourteen Points.
What is Wilson's plan for a friendly peace - guided by the concept of national self-determination - after the war which called for freedom of the seas and trade, small armies, open alliances, and a League of Nations?
500
These are the five primary causes of the First World War.
What is the primary causes of the war were militarism, alliances, imperialism, nationalism, and the emperor.
500
This is what it means to be engaged in a total war.
What is the government takes control of the economy, converts factories to making war materiel, and devotes all its resources and labor to the war effort?
500
Who is Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck?