Causes of WWI
This term describes extreme pride in one’s nation and played a major role in tensions across Europe.
What is nationalism?
This region was known as the “Powder Keg of Europe” due to ethnic conflict and nationalism.
What are the Balkans?
This type of warfare involved soldiers fighting from long ditches with little movement.
What is trench warfare?
This event in 1917 caused Russia to leave World War I
What is the Russian (Bolshevik) Revolution?
This treaty officially ended World War I in 1919.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
The system of secret agreements between countries that caused a small conflict to turn into a world war.
What is the alliance system?
This British passenger ship was sunk in 1915, killing Americans and increasing U.S. anger toward Germany.
What is the Lusitania?
This weapon caused choking, blindness, and panic and required soldiers to wear gas masks.
What is poison gas?
This treaty ended Russia’s involvement in World War I but forced Russia to give up large amounts of land to the Central Powers.
What is the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
Payments Germany was forced to make to the Allies were called this.
What are reparations?
This cause of WWI involved an arms race, building up armies, mobilizing troops, and detailed war plans.
What is militarism?
This 1917 message promised Mexico U.S. land if it joined Germany, helping lead the U.S. into WWI.
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
German submarines that attacked ships without warning were called these.
What are U-boats?
The Bolsheviks were led by this revolutionary leader.
Who was Vladimir Lenin?
This international organization was created to keep peace after WWI.
What is the League of Nations?
The assassination of this person in 1914 is considered the spark that ignited World War I.
Who was Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
This Serbian nationalist group was responsible for plotting the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
What was the Black Hand?
A war strategy focused on wearing down the enemy through constant attacks and heavy losses.
What is a war of attrition?
This Russian ruler was unpopular because he ruled as an absolute monarch and ignored the needs of the people.
Who was Czar Nicholas II?
Italy’s invasion of this African country showed the weakness of international peace efforts.
What is Ethiopia?
This person was a Serbian nationalist and was the person who assassinated the Archduke of Austria-Hungary.
Who is Gavrilo Princip
This slogan became very popular during the Bolshevik
(Russian) Revolution?
What is "peace, land, and bread"
This medical device was used in World War I to stabilize broken legs and helped save thousands of soldiers’ lives and was later used in civilian medicine.
What is the Thomas splint?
Why did many Russians support revolution during World War I?
What are food shortages, military failures, and anger at Czar Nicholas II?
This agreement attempted to outlaw war as a tool of foreign policy.
What is the Kellogg-Briand Pact?