Causes and Outcomes
What top-secret, coded message angered Americans because Germany promised Mexico territory in return for Mexican support against the U.S.?
The Zimmerman Telegram
What two weapons made frontal assaults by infantryman obsolete?
Machine guns and heavy artillery.
What nations made up the six Allied Powers?
Great Britain, France, Russia, Serbia, Belgium, and the United States.
Fourteen Points
What does the word nationalism mean?
Intense feelings of national pride, patriotism.
Lusitania
What weapon could blind a man in minutes, burn skin, or lead to a painful death by suffocation?
Poisoned gas
What nations made up the four Central Powers?
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, and Bulgaria
List three of the points proposed by President Wilson's peace plan.
Open covenants of peace, free navigation of the seas, and the formation of the League of Nations.
What does the word imperialism mean?
The practice of extending a nation's power by gaining territories for an empire or nation.
Economic and political ties with what country eventually led to the United States joining the war?
Great Britain
What new weapon of warfare allowed armies to spy and attack the enemy from above?
Airplane
Which nation was the last to join the fight?
The United States
Why did the United States not join the League of Nations?
It feared it would become entangled in European interests.
What does the word militarism mean?
An increase in the importance of military; building arms and building alliances with other countries.
A variety of reasons forced the United States to abandon its belief in________ and join the Allied Powers.
neutrality
World War One mostly involved a stalemate between opposing armies. What was the name of this type of warfare?
Trench warfare
Why did Russia come to the aid of Serbia when it was attacked by Austria-Hungary
It had an alliance.
What treaty ended World War One?
The Treaty of Versailles
What does the word reparations mean?
Financial penalties that must be paid by a defeated nation to a victorious one.
The United States' involvement in World War I set the stage for it to emerge as a ______________ __________ later in the twentieth century.
global superpower
What weapon allowed troops to be more safely transported over "no man's land" while also being able to go on the offensive?
Tank
Why did Austria-Hungary want to attack Serbia?
To avenge the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand.
Who lost the war and how did the Treaty of Versailles negatively impact them?
Germany and its allies lost WWI. Germany was blamed for causing the war, lost territories, and was forced to pay reparations to the allies. The combination of these things eventually led to WWII.
What does the word armistice mean?
An agreement to stop fighting. This does not officially end a war, but allows time to discuss a peace treaty.