Terms
This term means to kill for political reasons?
What is Assassination
These forms of agreements between nations allowed for a domino effect to happen.
What are alliances
This weapon, while ineffective in WWI, completely changed warfare forever
What is the Tank
This oceanliner was torpedoed, sparking outrage in the US despite prior warnings
What is the Lusitania
This treaty ended the War
What is the Treaty of Versailles
This term is another word for spying
What is Espinoage
The concept of the belief that your nation is above all others contributed to the start of WWI
What is nationalism
This technology was first used for Observation and then for fighting
What is the Airplane
This intercepted message told the US that Germany would ally with Mexico to attack the US
What is the Zimmerman Telegram
This pandemic killed 25-50 million people
What is Influenza (Spanish Flu)
This style of war involved digging into the ground to fortify their position
What is Trench Warfare
The policy of glorifying military power and keeping an army prepared for war
What is Militarism
This was the Germans' most effective weapon of WWI
What is the Submarine (U-boat)
This was the US foreign policy before and after the War
What is Isolationism
These were Woodrow Wilson's plans for the Post War World
What are the 14 points
This term describes the spreading of ideas about an institution or individual for the purpose of influencing opinion
What is Propaganda
The policy or practice by which a country increases its power by gaining control over other areas of the world and changes the way people live in other countries
What is Imperialism
This weapon fired automatically and changed everything Europe knew about war
What is the Machine Gun?
Strategy by the Germans to sink any ship in the war zone that brought the US into war
What is Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
This economic issue in Germany led to 1 US dollar being worth 4.2 trillion German Marks
What is Hyperinflation
This term is when all parts of society are mobilized towards the war
What is Total War
This terrorist group trained 8 individuals to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Who is the Black Hand (8 Bumbling Idiots)
This German Pilot was the Number 1 Ace of WWI with over 80 aerial victories
Who is Manfred Von Richthofen (The Red Baron)
This expedition in 1916 raised the tensions between the US and Mexico
What is the Pancho Villa or Punitive Expedition
The breakup of this empire formed what today is Poland, Finland, and Ukraine, among others
What is the Russian Empire