The system which built up obligations of countries to each other and snowballed once “events” took place.
What is the Alliance System?
Lost a lot of territory
What is Russia?
Could rapid fire 450 bullets in the air a minute.
What is a machine gun?
The ending of hostilities, no more shooting
What is an Armistice?
The Central Powers.
What is Austria-Hungary, Germany, Ottoman Empire?
The assassination of the archduke caused the alliance between these two countries to take effect.
Who were Germany and Austria/Hungary?
Payments Germany had to pay to the destroyed countries
What are Reparations?
A new “invention” just beginning to be used primarily for reconaissance and dogfights.
What is the airplane?
The telling of half-truths which distort reality, promote a cause or destroy an opposing cause
What is Propaganda?
The Major Allies.
Who were Great Britain, Russia, U.S.?
WWI could not have been on such a worldwide and massive scale of destruction without this Revolution.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
The new country created where Pope John Paul was from.
What is Poland?
German sneaky weapon, “Undersea”
What is a U-Boat?
The French Air Force that included American pilots portrayed in Flyboys
What is the Lafayette Escadrille
The attempt by Germany to get Mexico into the alliance and threatened the U.S. border and pushed us into war.
What is the Zimmerman Note?
Freedom and self-destruction of one’s ethnic group, pride in their country.
What is nationalism?
Germany was forced to demilitarize and could only have an army of this amount.
What is 100,000 soldiers?
Large German gun on a railroad track, shoots a shell the size of a VW Bug up to 50 miles.
What is “Big Bertha”?
President of the U.S. during WWI
Who is Wilson?
The ship which was sunk with American civilians on board and also pushed us into war.
What is the Lusitania?
Expansion of borders by establishing colonies, (adding stars to our flag)
What is imperialism?
This person came to Versailles wanting self-determination for his country of Vietnam, and was ignored.
Who was Ho Chin Minh?
Brought on death by asphyxiation (choking) to anyone, friend or enemy, without a mask.
What is chlorine gas?
In-between both sides of the trenches, barbed wire and bunches of dead bodies.
What is No-Mans land?
The two countries who were our allies in WWI, Enemies in WWII
Who were Italy and Japan?