It Starts Here
Key Vocabulary
Tid Bits & Facts
Friends & Enemies
War Stories
100

This is what started the war. 

What is the assassination of an Archduke? 

100

Term for building a strong military.

What is militarism?

100

This was the nickname for WWI. 

What is the Great War?


100

Germany was fighting on this side of the war. 

What is the Central Powers?


100
The name of the treaty that officially ended World War 1
What is the Treaty of Versailles
200

The year the United States entered the war.

What is 1917?

200

An agreement between two nations to support and defend each other.

What is an Alliance?

200

This is when the war ended.

What is Nov. 11 at 11:00am.
200

Austria-Hungry fought with this side.

What is the Central Powers?

200

After the war this gets formed.

What is the League of Nations?

300

These countries: Great Britain, France, Russia, United States, & Italy became known as this.

What is the Allied Powers?

300

The belief that your country is better than other countries.

What is Nationalism?


300

Fighting over long, narrow ditches during World War I.

What is trench warfare?

300

France fought with this side. 

What is the Allied Powers?


300

The zigzag ditches in the ground.

What are trenches?

400

This was the nickname of American troops on the western front.

What are the Doughboys?

400

The act of an empire building by adding colonies to its nations territory.

What is Imperialism?

400

This was the name of the ship sunk by German U-boats during World War I.

What was the Lusitania?

400

This country was blamed after the war. 

What is Germany?

400

The United States fought on this side of the war. 

What is the Allied Powers?

500
City in which he assassination took place.
What is Sarajevo
500

To take over another country using force.

What is Annexation? 

500

This was the name of the telegram that Germany sent to Mexico inviting them to attack the US.

What are the Zimmerman Telegraph?

500

A short ceasefire where soldiers stopped fighting to celebrate Christmas.

What was the Christmas Truce of 1914?

500
He was the president during WWI.

Who is Woodrow Wilson?