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?
One of the treaties that ended the First World War; it put harsh rules on Germany.
Define Imperialism
A system where a powerful nation controls and exploits one or more colonies.
What was the Schlieffen Plan?
Germany plan to knock France out the war so they wouldn't have to fight a war on two fronts.
Who shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
Gavrilo Princip
Name two countries that were apart of the Central Powers?
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria
Name two countries apart of the Allies?
Britain, France, Russia.........................
Who was the president of the U.S. during WWI?
Woodrow Wilson
Which of the M.A.I.N. causes of World War One was linked to Austria-Hungary declaring war on Russia because Germany was already at war with Russia?
Alliances
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?
An agreement to stop fighting.
What is an armistice?
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
What is Self determination?