WW1 Participants
This was the main country on the central powers
Who is Germany?
A lot of countries made secret ____________ before WW1 started, which caused a lot of people to declare war on each other once the first country declared war
What are Alliances?
The main type of fighting during WW1, typically seen on the Western Front.
What is Trench Warfare?
Many nations used this type of persuasive media to engage all of a country's resources toward a war.
What is Propaganda?
Was the Bolshevik Leader of the 1917 October Revolution, and the first Head of State of the Soviet Union.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
This country entered the war late in 1917
Who is the United States?
Countries competing against each other in order to forcibly gain more land abroad.
What is Imperialism?
Germans called their submarine ships this:
What are U-Boats?
This treaty ended the state of war between Germany and most of the Allied Powers in 1919. It gave harsh penalties to Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This is a form of socialism created by Karl Marx that abolishes private ownership of all private property.
What is Communism?
This country pulled out of the war in 1917, on the side of the allies
Who is Russia?
The idea that your country is better than every other country.
What is Nationalism
This type of deadly poison gas struck fear in many soldiers.
What is Mustard Gas?
An international organization formed after the Treaty of Versailles to promote peace among its members.
What is the League of Nations?
After Lenin's death, this dictator led the Soviet Union using purges, collectivization, propaganda, military police, and gulags.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
This country played both sides during WW1.
What is Italy?
The idea of having a strong military in comparison to the other European countries.
A disease that soldiers fighting on the front got a lot in the wet environments.
What is Trench Foot?
This telegram by Germany to Mexico proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico if the United States entered World War I against Germany. It ultimately convinced the United States to join World War I.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
This was the last imperial dynasty to rule Russia until the Russian Revolution of 1917. Its last leader was Nicholas II.
What was the Romanov Dynasty?
This participant was in the war on the side of the Central powers. Their entire nation collapsed after the end of the war and it got split up into many small countries including Turkey.
What was the Ottoman Empire?
The assassination of the Austria-Hungary heir to the throne, ___________________, was carried out by this Serbian nationalist organization called the Black Hand.
Who was Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
This was the narrow, muddy, treeless stretch of land, characterized by numerous shell holes, that separated German and Allied trenches during the First World War.
What is No Man's Land?
A strategy drawn up before the outbreak of WWI by Germany to avoid fighting a war on two fronts
What is the Schlieffen Plan?
This political party seized control of the government in Russia (October 1917) and became the dominant political power.
Who were the Bolsheviks?