With Allies Like These...
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?
A system where a powerful nation controls and exploits one or more colonies.
What is Imperialism?
What is the Great War, or the War to End All Wars?
Loyalty and pride in your nation or people and can be accompanied by feelings of superiority over other nations.
What is Nationalism?
Which European powers formed the Triple Alliance?
Who are Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.
Which European powers formed the Triple Entente?
Who is France, Great Britain, and Russia?
The area of land in between opposing trenches
What is No Man's Land?
Which country in the Triple Alliance remained neutral in the war?
Why is Italy?
This future fascist fought on the front lines for Germany during World War 1.
Who is Hitler?
Which of the causes of World War One was linked to Germany declaring war on Russia because Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia?
Alliances
The president of the U.S. during WWI.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
The area of fighting in Europe during the First World War, characterized by trench warfare and heavy casualties on both sides.
The Western Front
Information produced by governments, presented in such a way as to inspire and spread certain beliefs or opinions
What is propaganda?
The reason the U.S. never joined the League of Nations.
The U.S. Senate refused to ratify the Treaty of Paris
Which country was the first to introduce mustard gas on the battlefield?
Who even is Germany?
This required all men between 18-45 to register for
or the draft.
What is the Selective Service Act?
One of the treaties that ended the First World War; it put harsh rules on Germany.
Whose assassination is considered the "inciting incident" that launched World War 1?
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary?
This would cause resentment and bitter feelings amongst the defeated nation of Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This country was a major instigator (stirred up trouble) of WWI by encouraging countries like Austria-Hungary and Mexico to attack other countries.
Germany... again.
What were the likely reasons the United States joined WW1?
The sinking of the ship Lusitania, the interception of the Zimmerman telegraph, or the United States lending England a large amount of money.
Before WWI began many European countries rushed to colonize and take over countries on these continents. (Imperialism)
Africa and Asia
What does MANIA stand for?
Militarism, Alliances, Nationalism, Imperialism, and Assassination.
World War 2 officially started when Hitler invaded this country.
Poland