WWI - 1
A union formed between countries for shared benefit.
What is an Alliance?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
What happened to the territorial possessions lost by Germany and the Ottoman Empire in Africa and Middle East?
The League of Nations decided to make these territories mandates under its supervision.
Loyalty and pride in your nation or people and can be accompanied by feelings of superiority over other nations.
What is Nationalism?
The treaty that ended World War I. It required Germany to accept responsibility for starting the war.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
A system where a powerful nation controls and exploits one or more colonies.
What is IMPERIALISM
The group that consisted of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire was called.
Who were the Triple Alliance or Central Powers?
France, Great Britain, Russia, U.S were called what?
Who were the Triple Entente?
The other name for the Triple Alliance.
What are the Central Powers?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
The reason the US Senate rejected membership in the League of Nations.
What is Senators feared the League's collective security requirements would draw the nation into foreign wars.
The US President during WWI who came up with the Fourteen Points.
Woodrow Wilson
Which of the M.A.I.N. causes of World War One was linked to Austria-Hungary declaring war on Russia because Germany was already at war with Russia?
Alliances
A deadlock in which neither side is strong enough to defeat the other
What is a stalemate?
A British cruise-liner with 128 Americans on it- torpedoed by a German submarine.
What is the Lusitania?
The Conference where Russia lost territory because it was too weak to hold on to its empire following the 1917 Revolution despite the fact that it had been on the winning side of World War I.
What is the PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE.
The area of land in between opposing trenches
What is No Man's Land?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
With the ______________, Germany planned to win the war by quickly knocking France out of the fighting.
What is the SCHLIEFFEN PLAN.
Spark that began World War 1
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
A nation that destabilized the balance of power in Europe in the years before World War I with its increasing military and industrial might.
What is GERMANY
Information produced by governments, presented in such a way as to inspire and spread certain beliefs or opinions
What is propaganda?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
The two main reasons the US entered World War I.
What are the sinking of the Lusitania and the Zimmerman Telegram?
An agreement to stop fighting.
What is an armistice?
A group of countries trying to protect the independence of all countries- small or large. Organization formed after WWI
What is the League of Nations?
The horrors of war inspire an abstract art movement in Europe called _____________
What is SURREALISM?
payments to cover damages (in war)
What are reparations?
What caused unprecedented bloodshed during World War I.
NEW MILITARY TECHNOLOGIES
What were the five great weapons of WWI?
What are POISON GAS, MACHINE GUNS, SUBMARINES, AIRPLANES, TANKS
What country took the blame for WWI?
What is Germany?
What U.S. Holiday is celebrated on Armistice Day?
What is Veteran's Day
Turkish forces defeated the Allies on the ___________________.
What is the GALLIPOLI PENINSULA?
What did Russia, Germany, the Ottoman Empire and Austria-Hungry lose other than land and colonies as a result of WWI?
Their monarchies