Key Terms
What was the area between the two trenches on the Western Front?
No Mans Land
What was the name given to the official end of fighting in November 1918?
Armistice
Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the heir to what country's role as Emperor?
Austria-Hungary
What British passenger ship was sunk in which hundreds of Americans were killed?
RMS Lusitania
What deadly new disease spread across the globe in the late stages of WWI?
Spanish Flu
What is the increased support in one country's decisions and missions that led to increased country support prior to WWI?
Nationalism
During what Battle did the British suffer a defeat at the hands of the Ottomans in the Middle East?
Through what country did Germany invade in the early stages of the war?
Belgium
What nickname was given to U.S. Soldiers when they arrived in Europe?
Doughboys
How many "points" did Woodrow Wilson come up with for peace after the war?
Fourteen
What is the Treaty that ended WWI?
Treaty of Versailles
Harlem Hell Fighters
What person organized the attempt to sail through the Dardanelles to resupply Russia, but lost to the Ottomans?
Winston Chruchill
What was the longest battle of WWI (9 months)?
Battle of Verdun
What happened during the "Red Summer" of 1919?
Widescale racial violence across the United States.
U-Boats
What assassin shot and killed the Archduke of Austria to begin WWI?
Gavrilo Princip
The countries of France, Great Britain, and Russia made up what alliance in the war?
Triple Entente
Who was the U.S. General in charge of U.S. Forces in Europe during the war?
John "Blackjack" Pershing
What were three of the four conditions that Germany had to abide by following the signing of the treaty?
Pay War Reparations
Disband Air Force
Downsize military to 100,000
Cede land to France and Poland
At what Battle did the German army get halted by the French outside of Paris?
Battle of the Marne
What did the Zimmerman Telegram state?
Germany would help and fund Mexico to invade the United States
What nationalist group organized the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
Black Hand
Vladimir Lenin and the communists overthrew what Russian Tsar during the October Revolution?
Nicholas II
What does the U.S.S.R. stand for?
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics