Fighting with trenches, mines, and barbed wire. Horrible living conditions, great slaughter, no gains, stalemate, used in WWI.
Between 1915 - 1917, World War I was
a war of
President of the United States during World War I. He wrote the Fourteen Points in an attempt to have a "peace without victory" ending World War I. He created the League of Nations, which the United States DID NOT join.
A policy that the Germans announced on January 1917 which stated that their submarines would sink any ship in the British waters
The British army lost more soldiers in a
single day than at any other time in
history at the Battle of
The US was eager to support the war
Russian founder of the Bolsheviks (Communists) and leader of the Russian Revolution. He became the first leader of the new USSR after the revolution.
Who was Vladimir Lenin?
A series of proposals in which U.S. president Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a lasting peace after World War I.
The American Secretary of State who
resigned over Wilson's ultimatum to
Germany after the Lusitania incident was
African Americans were not allowed to fight for the US
Emperor of Germany during World War I
Who was Kaiser Wilhelm II?
Militarism, alliances, nationalism, imperialism, and assassination.
After the Kaiser abdicated, the Allies
forced Germany to adopt a new
democratic government before
negotiating the German surrender. The
site of the new government was
General John J. Pershing led the American Expeditionary Force
Archduke of Austria Hungary assassinated by a Serbian in 1914. His murder was one of the causes of WW I.
Who was Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
German military strategy during WWI to avoid a war on two fronts (France to the west, Russia to the east). Concentrated troops in the west to quickly defeat the French, and then, if necessary, rushed those troops to the east to face the Russians before they could fully mobilize.
What is the Schleiffen Plan?
Which of the following statements is NOT a reason
for the horrible increase in death and destruction
during World War I?
What is generals on both sides abandoned direct
frontal assaults for more dangerous end-around
encircling attacks?