Causes
One of the "A's" in MAIN
Alliances or Assassination
President of the United States during WW1
Woodrow Wilson
Name the 3 main countries/areas that make up the Central Powers
Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire
These were dug on both sides during WW1.
Trenches
What happened on July 28th 1914
WW1 Began
The "I" in MAIN
Imperialism
The assassination of this man was the trigger to WW1.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
What country switched sides in the war?
Italy
These rolled over barbed wire, and provided important firepower to the infantry with their machine-guns and artillery pieces.
Tanks
2 Part Question. In this treaty, Germany had to pay a large amount of money. This treaty was called _________ and the payment was known as a ______________
Treaty of Versailles, Reparations
What note was intercepted by America and was sent by the Germans to the Mexicans to convince them to invade America?
Zimmerman Telegram
A genocide was committed against this group in the Ottoman Empire.
Armenians
What country used the most poison gas during the war and was severely punished at the end
Germany
the idea that a nation pours all of its political, economic and social resources at the war effort
Total War
What turning point happened in April, 1917
The US joined the war
A British cruise-liner with 128 Americans on it- torpedoed by a German submarine.
Lusitania
He was the leader of Russia at the beginning of WW1
Tsar Nicholas II
This region was not stable and had many groups wanting to break away. Otto von Bismarck predicted that if there was another war it would be because of some damned foolish thing here
the Balkans
The area in between the 2 opposing trenches was called
No Man's Land
This organization was created to keep the peace at the end of WW1.
League of Nations
The Slavic people wanting to establish a greater Serbia is an example of what cause?
Nationalism
The man who assassinated the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary
Gavrilo Princip
Name 5 Allied countries
France, Serbia, Britain, Russia, the US, Japan
This WW1 battle had the most deaths
Verdun
This disease killed 50 million people across the world during the war.
Spanish Flu