A union formed between countries for shared benefit.
What is an Alliance?
A belief that a strong military force should be kept and used aggressively to defend or promote national interests
What is Militarism?
loyalty and pride in your nation or people and can be accompanied by feelings of superiority over other nations.
What is Nationalism?
A system where a powerful nation controls and exploits a country or colony politically and economically.
Imperialism
Attack plan by Germans, lightning quick attack against France. Proposed to go through Belgium then attack France. This was Germany's plan at the beginning of the war so they wouldn't have to fight a war on two fronts.
Schlieffen Plan
Name two countries apart of the Allies during WWI?
France, England, Russia, U.S., etc.
Name two countries that were apart of the Central Powers?
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria
The area of land in between opposing trenches
What is No Man's Land?
This sort of fighting style or warfare came to dominate WWI tactics, so soldiers can protect themselves from the new and improved weapons of the war.
Trench Warfare
a deadlock in which neither side is strong enough to defeat the other It becomes a war of ______________
What is a war of attrition
A British cruise-liner with 128 Americans on it- torpedoed by a German submarine.
What is the Lusitania?
What does it mean to be conscripted into the war?
What is to be drafted?
True or False
Many countries that fought in World War I did not take over many of their countries economies and shape public perception of the war through Propaganda.
False
Spark that began World War 1
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
A note from Germany to Mexico urging Mexico to attack the US
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
Who shot Franz Ferdinand?
Gavrilo Princip
a __________________when soldiers in an army rebel against leadership and do not follow orders from commanders.
Mutiny
What country was the Red Baron from and what was he know for?
What is Germany and over 80 kills in aerial warfare
the idea that a nation pours all of its political, economic and social resources at the war effort
What is total war?
Information produced by governments, presented in such a way as to inspire and spread certain beliefs or opinions
What is propaganda?