Causes / Historical Context
The assassination of this archduke sparked WWI.
Who is Franz Ferdinand of the Austrian Hungarian Empire?
Soldiers fought from these long, dug-in defensive positions on the Western Front.
What are Trenches?
Women filled these roles as they replaced men who went off to fight.
What are factories?
The group targeted by the Ottoman government during World War I.
Who are christian Armenians?
This Treaty officially ended WWI.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This term means the build up of a nation's military and military capabilities.
What is militarism?
This new weapon made frontal attacks over no man's land extremely deadly and favored defense.
What is the machine gun?
This practice limited the amount of food and supplies civilians could buy.
What is rationing?
This empire carried out the genocide beginning in 1915.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This country was forced to accept blame for the war in Article 231.
What is Germany?
This long-term cause involved competition for colonies, resources, and global power.
What is Imperialism?
This new technology was developed to protect soldiers as they crossed no man's land.
What is the tank?
Governments used posters, films, and slogans to influence public opinion.
What is propaganda?
This method involved forced marches into the Syrian desert.
What are death marches?
Germany was forced to pay these to the allied powers to pay for all damages.
What are reparations?
This belief in loyalty and pride to one’s nation increased tensions, especially in the Balkans.
What is Nationalism?
Trench warfare and new technology caused little land to me gained by either side. This is called a
What is stalemate?
This concept meant that civilians, factories, and economies were fully mobilized for war.
What is total war?
Approximately this many Armenians were killed during the genocide.
What is between 1 and 1.5 million people?
The Germans sent this to Mexico asking them to attack the United States and in return would receive land lost throughout the 19th century.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
These two Alliances were created prior to the start of WWI. (Please provide the names of the alliances and the three countries in each alliance)
Triple Alliance (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy)
Triple Entente (Great Britain, France, Russia)
This naval strategy targeted all ships, including civilian ones, without warning.
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
Civilians grew these in their yards in order to help with the war effort.
What are victory gardens?
This reason was used by Ottoman leaders to justify targeting Armenians.
What is Armenian nationalism, Armenian support of Russia, casualties of war?
This was the name of the British passenger liner that was sunk by the German and killed 123 Americans.
What is the Lusitania?