Causes
The assassination of this man "sparked" the war in 1914
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand
This new weapon of war, fired from trenches, caused widespread injuries like blindness and even death.
What is poisonous gas/ chemical weapons?
The wartime policy of requiring men to join the military was often called this.
What is the draft or conscription?
The treaty that formally ended the war with Germany and imposed reparations and territorial losses.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Many soldiers returned with this mental health disorder.
What is Shellshock or PTSD?
These two alliance systems divided Europe into hostile groups before 1914.
What was the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente?
This new armored vehicle was introduced by the British and helped cross trenches.
To ensure supplies and control prices, governments often used these measures to direct scarce goods to the war effort.
What are rationing and price controls (or rationing)?
President Wilson's plan for peace that was largely ignored in the final peace treaty.
What are the 14 Points?
This term is the word for the payments Germany had to make to France after the war.
What are reparations?
This country had the largest growth in their army in the couple years leading up to the war.
Who is Germany?
Submarines from this nation waged unrestricted warfare in the Atlantic, sinking merchant and passenger ships.
What is Germany?
Women took on many new roles during WWI; name one sector where their labor expanded significantly.
What are factories/munitions work, nursing/medical services, transportation, or agriculture? (any one)
This term means an agreement to stop fighting.
What is an armistice or truce?
Germany printed off money to pay for the war debts, leading to an economic issue.
Austria-Hungary was pushing into Serbian land, which led the Serbian assassins to kill the Austria-Hungarian heir. They were driven by what?
What is nationalism?
This is one way militaries adapted to the new weapons, blending in more with their surroundings.
What is brown and green uniforms?
This 1917 event in Russia reflected widespread discontent and led to the collapse of the Russian monarchy.
What is the Russian Revolution / February Revolution (1917) — leading to the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II?
What Central Powers country was the last to exit the war?
What is Germany?
Name 3 nations that gained independence after the war.
What is Poland, Lithuania, Austria, Hungary, Latvia, Estonia, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Finland...
France and Great Britain got a lot out of the Berlin Conference. What country did not and saw war as an opportunity to make up for that loss?
Who is Germany?
This weapon created during the Industrial Revolution made warfare much more quick and deadly.
What is the Maxim gun?
The 1918 global health crisis that killed millions, often exacerbated by wartime conditions.
What is the influenza pandemic / Spanish Flu?
This term means that countries get to decide for themselves what their government will be and what their borders look like.
What is self-determination?
This provision required Germany to accept full responsibility for WW1 and became a focal point for German resentment and nationalist propaganda in the interwar years.
What was the "war guilt" clause?