Causes
Who is Franz Ferdinand?
This is the nickname that was given to American soldiers upon arrival in Europe, named after their uniforms.
What is Doughboys?
This was the year of the Russia Revolution
What is 1917?
This passenger ship, with 128 Americans on board, was sunk by the Germans, and was one of the main causes for America becoming involved in WW1.
What is the Lusitania?
This treaty was the official end of WW1
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
The radical nationalist group is responsible for assassinating the Archduke.
Who is the Black Hand?
This is the German name for Submarine.
What is U-Boats (unterseeboot)?
This is the political ideology that the Russian people adopted after the revolution, the first of its kind in the world.
What is Communism?
This was America's stance on the war in the very beginning.
What is neutral?
This is another name for a truce, which also became a holiday
What is armistice?
This term means when a country increases their power and wealth by bringing additional territories under their control.
What is imperialism?
This was a method of transport the American Navy developed, involving heavy guard of destroyers escorting merchant ships back and forth across Atlantic in groups
What is a convoy system?
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
This was a secret telegram from German foreign minister to the German ambassador in Mexico encouraging Mexico to invade the US
President Wilson proposed this to be created during the peace conference
These three countries made up the Triple Entente, or the Allied Powers (hint-at the beginning of the war)
This was the name for Germany's war plan/strategy.
What is the Schlieffen Plan?
This was the leader of Russia prior to the revolution, whose family had ruled the country for 300 years?
Czar Nicholas II
This was passed by Congress in 1917, requiring men to register with the government in order to be randomly selected for military service.
What is the Selective Service Act?
The empire would effectively no longer exist according to the end of the war treaty
What is the Ottoman Empire?
These three countries made up the Triple Alliance, or Central Powers
Who are Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy?
This battle between Allied and Central Powers in 1916, with more than 1 million soldiers either dead or wounded combined, would become known as one of the deadliest battles in human history.
What is the battle of the Somme?
This man's writing is what inspired Bolshevik leaders to rebel and stage the revolution
Who is Karl Marx?
He was the leader of the American troops, the American Expeditionary Force, in WW1.
Who is General John J. Pershing?
This treaty effectively ended the Russia's involvement in the war
What is the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?