People & Places
A country, like the USA, who was against getting involved in the war.
What is an isolationist?
This revolution toppled the Czar and took Russia out of WWI.
What is the Russian Revolution?
Germany was punished harshly in the terms of the treaty signed after the war. They were forced to take the full blame for the war under a clause known by this name.
What is the War Guilt Clause?
This country, based on its alliances, was the first to attack and declare war, beginning WWI.
What is Germany?
This man was assassinated to begin WWI.
Who is Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand?
This treaty was imposed upon Germany at the conclusion of the war.
What is the Treaty of Versailles (Paris Peace Treaty)?
Historians cite 4 MAIN causes of WWI that were in place before the assassination sparked the tensions.
What are militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism?
The Second Battle of Ypres in April 1915 saw the first large-scale use of this new weapon of war on the battlefield.
What is poison gas (chlorine)?
Propaganda was used to whip-up support for the war effort on all sides. Name 2 reasons progaganda was used in the war effort.
What are recruitment/enlistment, to get public support for the war effort (create sympathy for soldiers and families and villification of the enemy), to get money to support the war effort (Victory Bonds), and to encourage rationing?
Canadian troops, with the entire corps fighting together for the first time, distinguished itself by capturing this ridge in northern France in April 1917.
What is Vimy Ridge?
The German army's plan for fighting France and Russia that ended up being a failure.
What is the Schlieffen Plan?
Historians cite three key events that triggered the US to enter the war in 1917 after remaining isolated.
What are the sinking of the Lusitania, the Zimmerman Telegram, and Germany's reboot of submarine warfare?
Great Britain, France, and Russia create an alliance prior to WWI known as this.
What is the Triple Entente?
A war where one’s enemy is worn down to the point of collapse by continuous losses in people, food, and war weapons.
What is a war of attrition?
This international assembly of nations was formed after the war with the goal of keeping peace among nations.
What is the League of Nations?
During World War I, the Conscription Crisis of 1917 highlighted the tensions between English and French Canadians. The crisis was sparked by the Military Service Act in which the government was rebuilding its military forces through mandatory enlistment.
What is the Conscription Crisis?
In 1918, Germany and Russia sign this secret treaty that allows Germany to concentrate all of their troops on the Western front and officially marks Russia's withdrawal from WWI.
What is the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
The President of the United States who pushed for peace after the war through his 14 Points.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
Building up of armed forces and military equipment in preparation for war.
What is militarism?
Under the terms of the peace treaty signed in Paris, Germany was forced to pay Allied countries for the costs of the war. These payments were crippling to the German economy.
What are reparations?
Germany fought World War I on these two fronts until 1917.
What are Russia to the east and France to the west? (the Eastern Front and the Western Front)
An armistice was signed and the war officially ended on this day of this month in 1918.
What is Nov. 11th?