Ships, Guns, and Trenches
This type of warfare involved soldiers fighting from long, narrow ditches dug into the ground.
What is Trench Warfare?
What was the alliance called that Britain, France, Russia formed?
Who are Allied Powers?
This country's economic, political, and military expansion into Bosnia directly led to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
What is Austria?
One of the long term causes of WW1, Intense loyalty to one’s country, often accompanied by a feeling of superiority over others.
What is Nationalism?
This country was claimed responsible for the war, lost all its territories, and paid reparations payments to the Allies.
What is Germany?
These German submarines were used to sink Allied ships during WWI.
What are U-Boats?
What is the name of the alliance that Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria formed?
What are Central Powers?
A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force, it was a primary cause of pre-WWI tension.
What is Imperialism?
What country bowed out the war due to casualties?
What is Russia?
This US President proposed the "Fourteen Points" for a lasting peace.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This chemical weapon, first widely used in WWI, forced soldiers to wear gas masks in the trenches.
What is poison gas?
This country joined the Allies in 1917, helping turn the tide of the war.
What is The United States?
This U.S. President famously used "Big Stick" diplomacy to project American power in Latin America.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This European region, full of Slavic nationalism, was known as the “powder keg of Europe” before WWI.
Who are The Balkans?
WWI officially ended for Germany with the signing of this treaty in 1919.
What is The Treaty of Versailles?
This dangerous area between opposing trenches was often filled with barbed wire and constant gunfire.
What is No Man's Land?
Although a member of the Triple Alliance with Germany and Austria-Hungary, this country remained neutral in 1914 and joined the Allies in 1915.
What is Italy?
It was the duty of white Europeans to "civilize" other nations.
What is White Man's Burden?
This empire, once dominant in the Balkans, was nicknamed "The Sick Man of Europe" as it lost territory to nationalist movements.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
Great Britain and France divided up Middle East
British take Iraq, Jordan, and Palestine
France takes Syria and Lebanon
What did they call this agreement?
What is The Mandate System?
The sinking of this British passenger ship by a German U-boat in 1915 shocked the world.
What is The Sinking of Lusitania?
This was a secret message from Germany to Mexico to propose an alliance against the US.
What was this event called?
What is The Zimmerman Telegraph?
A conflict between the United States and Spain that effectively ended Spain's colonial empire in the Americas and established the U.S. as a global power
What is The Spanish-American War?
This secret Serbian nationalist society, that was responsible for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
What is The Black Hand?
The 1918 date when WWI combat officially ceased, now known as Remembrance Day or Veterans Day.
When is November 11th