Causes
Key Figures and Events
Weapons and Battle Tactics
Potpourri
Effects
100

This man was assassinated by a Serbian terrorist.

Franz Ferdinand

100

President of the United States during this time.

Woodrow Wilson

100

This weapon can fire over one hundred rounds (bullets) in less than a minute.

The Machine Gun

100

Germany and its allies became known by this more geographically accurate name.

The Central Powers

100

This is the name of the treaty that officially ended World War I.

The Treaty of Versailles

200

Germany had an alliance with this dual empire.

Austria-Hungary

200
The leader of Germany was known by this title.

Kaiser

200

This type of fighting dominated World War I and resulted in miserable conditions for the soldiers.

Trench Warfare

200

This is the year that World War I began.

1914

200

This was the organization proposed by Woodrow Wilson and intended to prevent future wars.

The League of Nations

300
This is intense pride in one's country

Nationalism

300

The revolution in Russia replaced the Czar and installed this type of government system.

Communist

300

Chemical warfare resulted in the mass production of these defense mechanisms.

Gas masks

300

This was the secret message sent from Germany to Mexico proposing an alliance if Mexico attacked the United States.

The Zimmerman Telegram

300

This is the name for the payments that Germany was forced to make to the Allies to compensate for the damages caused by the war.

Reparations

400

The original name for the alliance between France, Britain, and Russia.

The Triple Entente

400

This was the name of Woodrow Wilson's plan for peace.

The Fourteen Points

400

These "landships" were first used by the British but were quickly adopted by nearly all major nations.

Tanks

400

The British were very good at this type of communication, which takes the form of posters and (sometimes) staged photos, that convinced others to join them.

Propaganda

400

Name the three empires that were dissolved as a result of the war.

German, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman

500

This is the name of the assassin who started the conflict.

Gavrilo Princip

500

The sinking of this British passenger ship outraged the world, and especially the United States.

The Lusitania

500

The Allies adopted this technique to protect shipping from German U-boats.

Convoys

500

This is the exact date and time that the First World War ended.

The 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month - November 11th, 1918

500

Aside from Woodrow Wilson, name any one of the "Big Four" who negotiated the peace treaty at the end of the First World War.

Lloyd George (Britain), George Clemenceau (France), Vittorio Orlando (Italy)