World War 1 - 1
A union formed between countries for shared benefit.
What is an Alliance?
A belief that a strong military force should be kept and used aggressively to defend or promote national interests
What is Militarism?
loyalty and pride in your nation or people and can be accompanied by feelings of superiority over other nations.
What is Nationalism?
Treaty that ended the First World War; it put harsh rules on Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
A system where a powerful nation controls and exploits a country or colony politically and economically.
Imperialism
What was the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Treaty between Russia and Germany in 1918 ending Russia's participation in the war. Russia had to give up large amounts of land to Germany
Name two countries apart of the Allies during WWI?
France, England, Russia, U.S., etc.
Name two countries that were apart of the Central Powers?
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria
Who shot Franz Ferdinand?
Gavrilo Princip
Who was the president of the U.S. during WWI?
Woodrow Wilson
This sort of fighting style or warfare came to dominate WWI tactics, so soldiers can protect themselves from the new and improved weapons of the war.
Trench Warfare
a deadlock in which neither side is strong enough to defeat the other
What is a stalemate?
A British cruise-liner with 128 Americans on it- torpedoed by a German submarine.
What is the Lusitania?
Selective Service Act required men to register for...
What is the draft?
The area of land in between opposing trenches
What is No Man's Land?
By buying these types of documents, U.S. citizens were lending money to the government to pay for the war.
What are liberty bonds?
Spark that began World War 1
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
A note from Germany to Mexico urging Mexico to attack the US
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
Information produced by governments, presented in such a way as to inspire and spread certain beliefs or opinions
What is propaganda?
The two main reasons the US enters the War
What are the sinking of the Lusitania and the Zimmerman Telegram?
This was the U.S. foreign policy prior to and at the beginning of WWI?
Isolationism
a group of countries trying to protect the independence of all countries- small or large. Organization formed after WWI
What is the League of Nations?
the idea that a nation pours all of its political, economic and social resources at the war effort
What is total war?
payments to cover damages (in war)
What are reparations?
the right of a group to decide its own form of government? (One of President Wilson's 14 Points)
What is Self determination?