The Spark & Causes
The "M" in the M.A.I.N. causes of World War I.
What is Militarism?
The type of warfare where soldiers lived in deep ditches to hide from fire.
What is Trench Warfare?
erm for a country putting all of its civilian and industrial resources toward war.
What is Total War?
The political philosophy of the Bolsheviks based on shared property.
What is Communism?
Woodrow Wilson’s plan for ending the war and preventing future ones.
What are the Fourteen Points?
The "A" in M.A.I.N. that dragged many nations into the war to help friends.
What are Alliances?
WWI differed from previous wars because it was this.
What is Industrialized?
One-sided information or posters used to control public opinion.
What is Propaganda?
TRIPLE POINTS
Vladimir Lenin's famous three-word slogan for the people.
What is Peace, Land, Bread?
The 11/11/1918 agreement to stop the actual fighting.
What is an Armistice?
The name of the Archduke whose assassination sparked the war.
Who was Franz Ferdinand?
New technology that caused a massive loss of life
What are Machine Guns? (Accept: Artillery/Poison Gas)
Where civilians worked in factories and faced rationing to support the soldiers.
What is the Homefront?
The incompetent leader of Russia who was forced to abdicate.
Who was Nicholas II?
The final peace treaty that many historians say helped cause WWII.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
The "I" in M.A.I.N. involving one country taking over another for resources.
What is Imperialism?
A situation where neither side can win or advance.
What is a Stalemate?
The 1918 global pandemic that killed millions during the war.
What is the Spanish Flu?
The radical political group that seized power in Russia in 1917.
Who were the Bolsheviks?
Billions of dollars in payments Germany was forced to pay the Allies.
What are Reparations?
Intense pride in one’s own country or wanting independence for your ethnic group.
What is Nationalism?
The dangerous, open territory between opposing trenches.
What is No Man’s Land?
The specific part of the Treaty of Versailles forcing Germany to take all blame.
What is the War Guilt Clause?
The treaty that took Russia out of WWI early, giving land to Germany.
What is the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
The international organization meant to keep peace that the U.S. never joined.
What is the League of Nations?