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Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Key People
Key Groups
Key Battles and Events
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Devotion to the interests and culture of one's nation.
What is nationalism?
100
Truce or agreement to end a war or armed conflict.
What is an armistice?
100
Heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary. He and his wife Sophie were assassinated in Sarajevo in 1914, setting off World War I.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
100
Poison gas, machine guns, tanks, airplanes
What new weapons during World War I?
100
Battles of Verdun, Somme, Ypres and Italian Front
What are key battles along the Western Front where the Allied Powers suffered heavy casualties?
200
The policy of building up armed forces in aggressive preparedness for war and their use as a tool of diplomacy.
What is militarism?
200
The compensation paid by a defeated nation for the damage or injury it inflicted during a war.
What are reparations?
200
Germany's kaiser or emperor during World War I.
Who is Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert or Wilhelm II?
200
Great Britain, France, Russia, United States, Italy, Greece, Japan
Who are the Allied Powers?
200
Allied Power that changed from a monarchy to a communist dictatorship following a revolution and during World War I.
What is Russia?
300
The policy of extending a nation's authority over other countries by economic, political or military means.
What is imperialism?
300
The protection of merchant ships from U-boat-German submarine-attacks by having the ships travel in large groups escorted by warships.
What is convoy system?
300
U.S. President during World War I.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
300
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire.
Who are the Central Powers?
300
Secret message from German diplomat Arthur Zimmerman to officials in Mexico in which Germany proposed that Mexico attack the United States in return for protection and land.
What is the Zimmerman note?
400
An agreement to work together.
What is an alliance?
400
A person who refuses, on moral grounds, to participate in warfare.
What is a conscientious objector?
400
French premier during World War I.
Who is George Clemenceau?
400
Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia
What new nations were formed after World War I?
400
British passenger ship sunk by German U-boats on May 7, 1915 off the southern coast of Ireland. Of the 1,198 people aboard, 128 were Americans.
What is the Lusitania?
500
An unoccupied region between opposing armies.
What is "no man's land"?
500
A kind of biased communication designed to influence people's thoughts and actions.
What is propaganda?
500
British Prime Minister during World War I.
Who is David Lloyd George?
500
Organization started by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson to encourage international cooperation and to keep peace between nations.
What is the League of Nations?
500
Treaty agreed to by Allied Powers and signed to end World War I on June 28, 1919. Treaty hurt Germany and blamed it for the war.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?