WWI Vocabulary
WWI Events
WWI Information
WWI Technology
WWI Extra
100
An extreme pride or love for your country or ethnic group.
What is Nationalism?
100
The name of the British ocean liner that sank that had over 100 Americans onboard.
What is the sinking of the Lusitania?
100
The process of persuading people to believe in a certain idea or set of ideas, influencing people's opinion for or against a cause.
What is propaganda?
100
This weapon changed the way that WWI was fought. Prior to this creation wars were fought by soldiers charging each other on the battlefield.
What is the Machine gun?
100
The year that the US entered the war
What is 1917?
200
The building up of a strong military to be used for intimidation.
What is militarism?
200
The group of countries allied themselves to form the triple entente (allies) in the years before WWI
What is Britain, France, and Russia?
200
The name given to the alliance of: Austria-Hungary, The Ottoman Empire, and Germany.
What are the Central Powers?
200
This armored technological monstrosity allowed soldiers to cross the battlefield.
What is a tank?
200
The reason the US was not involved in the first 3 years of WWI
What is isolationism?
300
This image represents this MAIN cause
What is an alliance?
300
The empire in which Archduke Francis Ferdinand was from.
What is Austria-Hungary?
300
World War I was fought on 3 different fronts (Europe, Middle East, and the Pacific) due to this MAIN cause.
What is Imperialism?
300
Used to gather intelligence about the enemy, drop bombs on troops, and contained machine guns to fight in the air
What are airplanes?
300
When two sides face each other in war, and neither can move
What is a stalemate?
400
this image represents this MAIN cause.
What is imperialism?
400
This country rejected most of President Wilson's peace plan
What is France?
400
The US entered the War because Germany resumed this new type of warfare
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
400
This new war tactic allowed for soldiers to combat using long narrow trenches.
What is trench warfare?
400
Allied leaders: President Woodrow Wilson of the United States, Premier George Clemenceau of France, and Prime Minister David Lloyd George of England at the Paris Peace Conference
Who are the "Big Three"?
500
The event that sparked WWI.
What is assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand?
500
When Germany tried to form an alliance with Mexico via telegram message?
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
500
This country formed a secret treaty with Great Britain and flip-flopped alliances at the start of the war.
Italy
500
This technological advancement terrorized Allied trade ships.
What is the U-boat or submarine?
500
The agreement that was reached between the Allied powers & Germany
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
600
These people opposed World War I because they perceived all war as evil.
Pacificist
600
This created the Draft in the United States.
What is the Selective Service Act?
600
The harsh conditions of the Treaty of Versailles lead to the rise of this Extremist leader
Who is Hitler?
600
The advancements in technology lead to this long term negative effect on soldiers.
What is the Shell Shock?
600
The statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I
What is Woodrow Wilson's 14 points?
700
African Americans moving from the South to the North to take factory jobs during WWI
What is the Great Migration?
700
This type of propaganda was used to encourage citizens to do what?
Conserve resources to supply troops
700
These 2 acts limited free speech in the United States during War time
What is the Espionage Act and Sedition Act?
700
The first type of poison gas used.
What is Chlorine Gas?
700
Reason why U.S. Senators did not want to join the League of Nations
What is fear of being pulled into another foreign conflict?