Causes of WWI
Extreme loyalty to/love of one's country, language, religion and/or history. Led Gavrilo Princip to assassinate an Austro-Hungarian archduke on behalf of Serbian people.
Nationalism
_________________ was president of the United States during WWI.
_________________ was the Kaiser of Germany during WWI.
Points for both!
Woodrow Wilson
Wilhelm II
This organization was meant to prevent future global wars, was proposed by the treaty of Versailles and the 14 Points, but failed partly because the US did not join.
Identify as many causes of the Russian Revolution as you can. POINTS FOR EACH.
Multiple answers possible.
This is the idea that countries should conquer and control other countries. Europeans would use this to justify taking resources from African countries.
Imperialism
Identify new weapons that led to massive loss of life during WWI. POINTS FOR EACH.
Variety of answers.
Germany's ____________ was limited under the Treaty of Versailles so it wouldn't be able to be aggressive in the future.
Military
Russia was forced to _________________ WWI because the brewing revolution at home.
exit, leave, etc.
This is the idea that your military should be bigger than other country's militaries. (Just in case)
Militarism
Most soldiers during WWI would fight from their ______________. When they tried crossing No-Man's Land, they often were killed by weapons and other obstacles.
Trenches
Pay
The ___________________ took control of Russia after assassinating Czar Nicholas II and his family.
Bolsheviks, Russian Communists
When you are in one of these, your country is obligated to go to war support another country that started the conflict. This was why so many countries participated in WWI
Alliances
America became involved in the war when a German ________________ torpedoed and ship bound for England that was carrying Americans.
submarine
The Mandate System split up the territories of the ______________ Empire and gave control of them to France and England.
Ottoman
Vladimir Lenin ___________________ the Russian economy, bringing it under government control.
Nationalized.
The assassination of which Archduke is considered the "spark that ignited WWI?"
Franz Ferdinand
______________________ was the leader of the Russian Communist Party by the end of the Russian Revolution.
Joseph Stalin