WWI Causes
A fast and aggressive strengthening of armed forces.
What is militarism?
This type of warfare featured long manmade ditches and "no man's land".
What is trench warfare?
This term describes payments made by the losing country to pay for damages and cost of the war.
What is war reparations?
Mutual agreement between at least 2 countries that address political, economic or military concerns.
What are alliances?
Secret telegram sent to Mexico suggesting an alliance with Germany against the United States.
What is the Zimmerman Note?
A situation where neither side could win a victory due to trench warfare no real gain was made.
What is a stalemate?
This country had to accept full responsibility for the war.
What is Germany?
Annexing as much territory and land as possible to increase the size and power of your empire.
What is imperialism?
This policy of aggressive action at sea by the Germans also led to American involvement in the war.
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
Required men between the ages of 21 and 45 to register to be drafted.
What was the Selective Service Act of 1917?
This was proposed as a peacekeeping organization following WWI and was part of the Treaty of Versailles.
What is the League of Nations?
Short-term loans that individual citizens made to the government that financed two-thirds of the war's cost.
What are war bonds?
Pride in one's country and the willingness to fight for it.
What is nationalism?
Spread rapidly around the world; killed ~30 million people, which was more than actually died in WWI combat.
What was the Influenza Epidemic of 1918?
US Forces that were sent to Europe and led by John J Pershing
What is the American Expeditionary Force (AEF)
The main points of this peace plan were end secret alliances; reduce militaries; open trade; support the right of people to choose their own government; establish League of Nations
What was Wilson's Fourteen Points?
In 1917 this country left WWI to fight in its own revolutionary war.
What is Russia?
This Archduke was assassinated which resulted in an immediate cause of the start of WWI.
Who is Franz Ferdinand?
Put these events in the correct chronological order.
a. US declared war on Germany
b. American newspapers publish the Zimmermann Note
c. US president Woodrow Wilson announced that the US will remain neutral.
d. Armistice
C, B, A, D
Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause. ex. Uncle Sam and other various posters used to "sell the war"
What is propaganda?
The group consisted of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, French Premier Georges Clemenceau, and Italian Prime Minister Vittorio Orlando
Who are The Big Four?
What is the acronym refers to the four main underlying causes of World War I?
What is MAIN?