This defense plan required Germany to attack France first to have time to prepare for combat with Russia.
What is the Schlieffen Plan?
100
Neither side in a war is able to gain any advantage over the other.
What is a stalemate?
100
Promised Mexico the land of the Mexican Cession in return for keeping the US out of the war in Europe
What is the Zimmerman telegram?
100
One of Wilson's Fourteen Points, calling for countries to choose their own governments.
What is self-determination?
100
author of the Fourteen Points, hoped to promote democracy and peace
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
200
France, Great Britain, and Russia
What is the Triple Entente?
200
used by Germany to blockade GB (unsuccessfully), these tools were effective because they introduced the element of surprise
What is submarine warfare?
200
Australia and New Zealand became involved in the war, Italy hoped to get some at the end of the war, Japan offered to help GB in return for Germany's...
What are colonial possessions?
200
Decision-makers at Versailles, consisting of:
Wilson (US)
Lloyd George (GB)
Clemenceau (Fr)
Orlando (IT)
What is The Big Four?
200
Along with his family, executed by the Bolsheviks in 1917?
Who is Czar Nicholas II?
300
Italy never joined this group when fighting began in 1914.
What is the Triple Alliance?
300
This principle is endangered by the use of unrestricted submarine warfare.
What is freedom of the seas?
300
Encouraged the US to enter the war in Europe because ti introduced communism and threatened the US economic system.
What is the Bolshevik Revolution?
300
payment for the cost of the war
What are reparations?
300
Gavrilo Princip
Who is the person who shot and killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
400
The French response to the Schlieffen Plan, requiring France to attack through Alsace-Lorraine
What is Plan 17?
400
First used at the Battle of Ypres, this tool could easily kill civilians, too, and became an example of total war.
What is poison gas?
400
Encouraged the US to become involved in the war in Europe because Lenin concluded a separate peace with Germany at Brest-Litovsk in 1917.
What is eh Bolshevik Revolution?
400
land that was often in dispute between FR and Ger, given back to France
What is Alsace-Lorraine?
400
Called the Tiger because of his demands that Germany pay for the cost of the war and be restricted from starting another war.
Who is Georges Clemenceau?
500
Because Greece and Bulgaria became independent, and because Egypt and Tunisia became the colonial possessions of other countries, this nation was in a weakened position in 1914.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
500
The expression "over the top" refers to soldiers' activity in this kind of warfare.
What is trench warfare?
500
It was carrying weapons, it was carrying civilians, and it was used in propaganda to encourage US involvement in the war.
What is the Lusitania?
500
France demanded Allied troops in this region to protect Fr from a Ger uprising.
What is the Rhineland?
500
Left the Versailles conference because he was not able to get the overseas territories his country demanded, was sent back, and ultimately replaced because of political changes in his country.