Causes
This man was assassinated by a Serbian terrorist
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary?
WWI started in this year.
What is 1914?
There were two different types of battle fields in World War I. One was filled with trenches and was slower with stalemates. The other was rapid and large.
What are the Western and Eastern Fronts.
Soldiers would stand on these in the trenches to help keep their feet dry.
What are duckboards?
The name of the treaty that officially ended World War I.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
The United States extending its power to Puerto Rico is an example of this.
What is Imperialism?
The United States President during the time of WWI.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This kind of battle tactic almost directly resulted in a stalemate and left soldiers sitting for long days at a time in poor conditions.
What is Trench Warfare?
These were implemented in the design in the trenches so that it was harder for the enemy to shoot straight at the soldiers.
What are zig zags?
The first intergovernmental organization established on January 10, 1920, following World War I to maintain world peace, promote international cooperation, and prevent future conflicts. It was proposed by US President Woodrow Wilson.
What is the League of Nations?
Building up the country's military in order to be prepared for war or to defend your land.
What is Militarism?
November 11, 1918 is known to be the end of fighting in WWI. This is the name given to the day.
What is Armistice Day?
Chemical Warfare resulted in the mass production of these defense mechanisms.
What are gas masks?
Soldiers trained dogs to catch these in the trenches because they would steal the soldier's food.
What are rats?
According to the treaty that ended the war, Germany was going to make serious territorial concessions (give up land) and pay war _________.
What are reparations?
Central Powers and Allied Powers are two examples of this.
What are Alliances?
Germany sunk the British ship called the Lusitania in 1917 which resulted in this.
What is the United States entry into the war?
Armored fighting vehicle designed for front-line combat which combines mobility and tactical offensive and defensive capabilities first used by the British in World War I. Used to help crush the barbed wire in the Western Front.
What are Landships?
This was the desolate, deadly, and often, narrow strip of territory typically with barbed wire separating opposing trench lines on the Western Front
What is No Man's Land?
Occurring in 1914, this was an unofficial ceasefire along the Western Front, where British and German soldiers sang carols, exchanged gifts (chocolate, food), and buried fallen comrades in no-man's-land.
What is the Christmas Truce?
This scenario represents one of the MAIN causes: Kay sees the news about a war that her country is involved in. She wants to do what she can to help her country, so she joins the army to help win the war.
What is Nationalism?
France, Great Britain, Russia, Japan and eventually the United States were all a part of this group.
What are the Allied Powers?
This was a German designed weapon that used compressed nitrogen to spray burning oil 20–30 yards, primarily used to clear enemy frontline defenders.
What are Flammenwerfers?
James sits in the trenches for long hours. There is standing water and mud around him and his feet are wet, cold, and in pain. He is possibly suffering from this.
What is trench foot?
This group of people were very important on the home front helping out during the war in many different roles such as filling jobs at home that soldiers had to leave, farming, nursing, and working in factories.
Who are women?