Notes of Importance
War Strategy
Location, Location, Location
Big Names
Potpourri
100
This county was forced to assume sole responsibility for the war under the Treaty of Versailles.
What is Germany?
100
The policy of glorifying power and keeping an army prepared for war.
What is militarism?
100
The reason Germany and Austria-Hungary were known as the Central Powers.
What is their location in the heart of Europe?
100
Wrote up the "Fourteen Points", a plan for peace in a postwar world.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
100
The area between two trenches.
What is no man's land?
200
On November 11, 1918 this action brought the fighting of World War I to an end.
What is the signing of an armistice.
200
The details of the Schlieffen Plan that Germany created to prepare for a two-front war.
What is to attack France first, and then Russia.
200
The reason Italy refused to support its ally Germany.
What is it accused Germany of starting the war?
200
Leader of the Germans during WWI?
Who is Kaiser Wilhelm II?
200
Used to persuade public opinion.
What is propaganda?
300
The purpose of Wilson's Fourteen Points.
What is to create a plan for the postwar world?
300
The purpose of using trench warfare.
What is to protect soldiers from enemy gun fire on the front lines and defend land?
300
The region referred to as the "powder keg" of Europe.
What is the Balkan Peninsula?
300
Leader of the Russians in WWI.
Who is Czar Nicholas II?
300
The impact the war had on the European economy.
What is it drained the treasuries of the economy?
400
America's opinion about the League of Nations.
What is to not join and stay out of European affairs?
400
Germany's policy to sink any ship in British waters without warning.
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
400
The significant event that occurred in Sarajevo and ignited the Great War.
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie?
400
Assassin of Franz Ferdinand.
Who is Gavrillo Princip?
400
When countries devote all of their resources to the war effort.
What is total war?
500
The Zimmerman note, which pushed the United States to enter the war, exposed the German plan to do this.
What is to help Mexico regain U.S. territory?
500
The goal of the Allies' Gallipoli campaign.
What is to establish a supply line to Russia?
500
The details of the "war guilt" clause.
What is placed all of the blame on Germany and made it pay reparations to Allied nations.
500
Leader of the French army and major proponent of making Germany pay reparations.
Who is George Clemenceau?
500
The major reason why the League of Nations was unsuccessful.
What is it did not have the participation of the United States?
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