Causes of World War One
a union or association formed for mutual benefit, typically between countries or organizations (like a gang)
What is an alliance?
The side that includes France, Britain, Italy, Russia, Japan, and the US
Who are the Allies?
Germany's plan to ally with Mexico to get the US into the war.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
President Wilson's Plan for peace
What are the Fourteen Points?
a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force - was a competition to see who would be the most powerful in Europe
What is imperialism?
The American president who tried to keep the US out of the Great War for as long as possible
Who is President Woodrow Wilson?
the front where most of the trench fighting happened
What is The Western Front?
US issued these as a way to borrow money from its citizens in order to finance the war effort.
What are Liberty Bonds?
British passenger ship that was sunk by a German U-boat with 100+ Americans on board
What is the Lusitania?
Love of one's country and the belief that your country is superior to others.
What is nationalism?
The country that dropped out of the Allied Powers to concentrate on their Communist Revolution
Who is Russia?
The country where most of the fighting took place.
What is France?
2 Ways to ration food
Meatless Mondays and Wheatless Wednesdays
The meeting at which the terms of surrender and peace were discussed
What is the Paris Peace Conference?
Gavrillo Princip shooting Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife is an example of this cause of World War One.
What is assassination?
The side of the war that includes Germany, Austria- Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire
Who are the Central Powers?
served as "Code Talkers" where they utilized their indigenous languages to transmit secret message
Who are the Native Americans?
New type of inhumane warfare banned after the war for its' brutality...
Chemical warfare.
In this, Germany had to pay 33 billion dollars. Germany lost land to Poland and France. Germany lost most of its military.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Another word for the arms race between Germany and Great Britain. Build up of a country's army and weapons.
What is militarism?
New weapons used for the 1st time in warfare in WWI...
Tanks, Grenades, Machine guns...
Give 3 reasons why the Allies won WW1
superior industrial capacity, manpower reserves, access to vital resources, the eventual entry of the United States, the internal struggles of the Central Powers, particularly in Russia, and key strategic battles that gradually wore down the enemy
1914-1918.
Give 3 reasons why the U.S. joined the war
Lusitania, Zimmerman Telegram, trade with allies, public opinion, propaganda