World War 1-1
A union formed between countries for shared benefit. A partnership.
What is an Alliance?
The president during WWI.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
Name the reasons 4 WWI started.
What is MAIN. Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism?
One of the treaties that ended the First World War; it put harsh rules on Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
The US joined WWI in this year.
What is 1917?
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire formed this alliance group.
Who were the Central Powers?
France, Great Britain, Russia formed this alliance group.
Who were the Allied Powers?
A message urging Mexico to attack the U.S. in return for their land back. Sent by Germany.
What is the Zimmerman telegram?
A fictional character created by the U.S. government to encourage men to join the Army.
Who is Uncle Sam?
An agreement to cease hostilities and stop fighting.
What is an armistice?
The taking over of another nation's land, usually for economic gain.
What is Imperialism?
Organization formed after WWI to promote peace and to settle disputes peacefully instead of going to war.
What is the League of Nations?
A British cruise-liner with 128 Americans on it - torpedoed by a German submarine.
What is the Lusitania?
Information produced by governments, presented in such a way as to inspire and spread certain beliefs or opinions to show support in the war effort or harm the war effort.
What is propaganda?
German Submarines used in World War I and World War II
What are U-Boats?
A British ocean liner that was carrying nearly 2,000 people when she was sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland in May 1915.
What is the Lusitania?
payments to cover damages (in war)
What are reparations?
Belief that one's nation, or a group of people within that nation are superior to all others.
What is Nationalism?
Spreading of information with the specific intention of altering someone's viewpoints of behavior.
What is Propaganda?
A very successful all black regiment that fought in WWI.
Who is the Harlem HellFighters?
An attempt to create a new international order in the event of victory in WWI.
What are The Fourteen Points?
Most common form of fighting in World War after 1914 as the armies tried to build new defenses across France.
The belief that a nation should not just have strong armed forces (military) but that they can be used to further its diplomatic goals or gain new territories and not just in defense.
Name any main 3 points of Wilson's 14 point peace plan.
The League of Nations, open diplomacy, free trade, equal trade conditions, redraw many borders, and make Poland a thing.
Name the 4 reasons the US got involved in WWI.
2. The sinking of the Lusitania.
3. Zimmerman Telegram
4. The Bolsheviks overthrowing their tsar in Russia.