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A union formed between countries for shared benefit. A partnership.
Alliance.
Many countries had formed alliances with other countries saying if one was attacked they would help defend them
The president during WW1
Who is Woodrow Wilson
How was the event which set world war 1 in motion?
The assassination of Arch Duke Ferdinand.
One of the treaties that ended the First World War; it put harsh rules on Germany.
Treaty of Versailles, signed on June 28, 1919, officially ended World War I between Germany and the Allied Powers
The US joined WW1 in this year.
What is 1917
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire formed this alliance group.
Who were the Axis Powers
France, Great Britain, Russia formed this alliance group.
Who were the Allied Powers.
A message urging Mexico to attack the U.S. in return for their land back. Sent by Germany
The Zimmermann Telegram was a secret 1917 diplomatic message from German that proposed a military alliance with Mexico if the United States entered World War I. Intercepted by British, once publiced Americans were angry.It was primary catalyst for the U.S. joining the war.
A fictional character created by the U.S. government to encourage men to join the Army.
Uncle Sam crated by James Montgomery Flagg in 1917, was a pivotal World War I to boost recruitment
An agreement to cease hostilities and stop fighting
The Armistice of November 11, 1918, ended the fighting in World War I on the Western Front, taking effect at 11:00 a.m. that day—the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month".
In order to pay for the war, the US government urged people to buy these.
What are Liberty Bonds.
Organization formed after WWI to promote peace and to settle disputes peacefully instead of going to war.
What is the League of Nations?
A British cruise-liner with 128 Americans on it- torpedoed by a German submarine.
What is the Lusitania?
Information produced by governments, presented in such a way as to inspire and spread certain beliefs or opinions to show support in the war effort or harm the war effort.
What is propaganda?
The area of land in between opposing trenches. It is filled with obstacles such as barbed wire and land mines.
What is No Man's Land?
What happened on the home front with men away?
Many women started to work and find independence. They worked in factories, and atypical jobs for women at that time.
What did the Allies ask Germany to do as punishment for the world war?
Pay reparations- billions of dollars. And take the full responsibility for starting the war. Last payment was paid in 2010.
A German Ace- who was the ace of the war. He is credited for 80 combat flights.
The Red Baron, Manfred von Richthofen
What happened Christmas day 1914?
German and English soldiers crossed into "No man's land" and played soccer and shared a moment camaraderie.
What happened in Russia in 1918 to the Czar and his family?
Czar Nicholas II, and his family were executed by Bolshevik revolutionaries in the early hours of July 17, 1918, the order was from Ural Soviet to prevent the family from becoming a rallying point for anti-communist forces.
What were the years of World War 1?
1914-1918
A deadlock in which neither side is strong enough to defeat the other. Also, a chess term to describe a player having no legal moves.
A stalemate. The Western front was a stalemake, a war of attrition. High casualties and minimal gains.
Name at least two weapons that were used in world war 1 that the world had never seen before?
Tanks, long range artillery, submarines, poison gas, war planes, machine guns, and grenades
Explain the importance of the red poppy after world war 1.
After World War I, the red poppy became an enduring symbol of remembrance, inspired by the 1915 poem "In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae, which described poppies blooming among battlefield graves.
Name the 4 reasons the US got involved in WW1.
1. The reintroduction of unrestricted submarine warfare
2. The sinking of the Lusitania
3. Zimmerman Telegram
4. The Bolsheviks overthrowing their tsar in Russia