World War 1 - A
A union formed between countries for shared benefit.
What is an Alliance?
France, Great Britain, Russia
Who were the Ally Powers?
Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary,
Who were the Central Powers?
The president of the U.S. during WWI.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
World Powers acquiring territories that were not part of their own country. Usually taking by military force.
What is Imperialism?
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.
Diseases soldiers would get on their feet if their feet were wet for too long.
Trench Foot
The MAIN acronym
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism.
A type of Warfare that had soliders living in large ditches for weeks at a time.
What is Trench Warfare?
The arch duke of Austria-Hungary that was assassinated on June 28th, 2914.
Franz Ferdinand
A foreign policy that calls for not taking sides in any wars, but maintaining trade between warring countries.
Diplomatic Allies
What country switched sides during the war?
Italy
The policy Germany used of sinking any ship in the Atlantic that was not theirs.
Unrestricted submarine warfare
3 new weapons that had the greatest impact on the war.
What are planes, tanks and machine guns? (variations are accepted)
The country that created the Schlieffen Plan to stage a 2-front attack with France on the West and Russia on the East?
Who is Germany?
A telegram sent from Germany to Mexico which invited Mexico to fight alongside Germany should America enter the war on the side of the Allies.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
A belief that a strong military force should be kept and used aggressively to defend or promote national interests
What is Militarism?
The space between two opposing trenches, filled with barbed wire, mines, and debris.
No Man's Land
Wilson's plan to unite foreign countries under one organization to promote global peace after the Great War.
What is the League of Nations?
A British passenger ship that was sank by a German submarine with over 100 Americans dying as a result.
What was the Lusitania?
When did WWI end?
November 11th, 1918
Approximately how many Americans died in the war?
100,000
The terrorist organization that was responsible for killing Franz Ferdinand
The Black Hand
Paris Peace Conference