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Before the War
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Vocabulary
100
The leading cause of the war.
What is competition among nations?
100
This communist leader took over the government in Russia in 1917.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
100
This new kind of warfare involved digging ditches and stringing barbed wire in front to keep out the enemy.
What is trench warfare?
100
One empire that disappeared as a result of the Great War.
What is the German, Russian, Ottoman, or Austria-Hungary?
100
A cease-fire agreement.
What is an armistice?
200
Two countries in conflict in the late 1800s over problems caused by imperialism.
What are Germany and France?
200
This American President drew up a list of ideas for peace.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
200
These two fierce battles fought on the Western Front resulted in over 500,000 casualties.
What are Somme and Verdun?
200
The final document that was a compromise between Woodrow Wilson and Georges Clemenceau signed at the peace conference putting an end to the war.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
200
A rapid increase in prices.
What is inflation?
300
The time period when Germany took over two of France's provinces.
What is after a war in 1870 - 1871?
300
This German leader insisted on building a large, modern navy to compete with Great Britain.
Who is Kaiser Wilhelm II?
300
The three members of the Central Powers.
Who are Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire?
300
Wilson's fourteenth point, to create a "general association of nations" to help prevent future wars.
What is the League of Nations?
300
Not taking sides.
What is neutral?
400
The allied countries began making preparations for war that pushed them toward the Great War.
What is they began to mobilize for war?
400
The woman served as a volunteer nurse in the war and later on wrote many books and essays speaking out agains the horrors of war.
Who is Vera Brittain
400
The four members of the Allied Powers.
Who are Italy, Great Britain, France, and Russia?
400
Three ways Germany was punished under the Treaty of Versailles.
What are: accept blame for the war, remove forts and other defenses from the Rhineland, and pay reparations to the Allies?
400
Payment for war losses.
What is reparation?
500
He was assassinated triggering the start of the Great War.
Who is Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary?
500
This French leader disagreed with almost every one of Woodrow Wilson's ideas for peace.
Who is Georges Clemenceau?
500
The two main reasons that the United States joined the war.
What are the sinking of the Lusitania which killed 128 Americans, and a secret telegram from Germany to Mexico?
500
The Front that was especially hard hit with casualties and destruction.
What is the Western Front?
500
A mass killing.
What is a holocaust?