People of WWI
President of the United States during World War I, his peace plan was known as the Fourteen Points.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This country had fully industrialized and a powerful navy.
What is Great Britain
A strong sense of pride, loyalty and protectiveness towards your country. It was a belief that one's country was the best and that their country was more important than any other country.
What is Nationalism
The kind of static warfare that both sides entered into on the Western Front for most of the War.
What is Trench Warfare?
This country was "at the table" during peace treaty talks but felt disrespected and ignored.
What is Japan?
He organized a disastrous amphibious military operation at Gallipoli before enlisting into the army and fighting in the trenches.
Who is Winston Churchill?
This country had a policy of Neutrality and did not want to be involved in the war. This would change in 1917 when some of its ships were sunk.
What is the United States?
The belief that a nation needs a larger military force.
What is Militarism?
This weapon can fire over three hundred rounds (bullets) in less than a minute. Used to deadly effect in WWI.
What are Machine Guns?
An international organization founded as a result of the Treaty of Versailles. It was one of Wilson's Fourteen Points.
What is the League of Nations?
Heir apparent to the Austro-Hungarian throne. He was killed with his wife Sophie on June 28. 1914.
Who was Franz Ferdinand?
Prussia was working to unify smaller (ethnically related) regions and kingdoms into this one nation.
What is Germany?
The Central Powers and The Allies during World War I are examples of this.
What are Alliances?
German war plan to defeat the Allies at the start of the war.
What is the Schlieffen Plan?
A Peace Plan proposed to the Allies by President Wilson in the hope of creating a lasting peace
What are the Fourteen Points
German general who played a central role in Germany's wartime policy. Responsible for planning Germany's Spring Offensive in 1918.
Who was Erich Ludendorff?
This country was trying to expand its territory. It went to war with Japan in 1905 over Manchuria and lost.
What is Russia?
The German policy and practice of sinking any and all ships that entered the war zone around the British Isles.
What is "unrestricted submarine warfare"
Weapon first used by the British to break through the trenches in the last phases of the War on the Western Front.
What are Tanks?
This treaty ended World War I.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Led Bolshevik Revolution, effectively ending Russian involvement in the Great War.
Who was Vladimir Lenin?
This empire was not ready for war, but declared war on Russia in October 1914. It was an agricultural sate not quite ready for industrial warfare. Also it had been depleted by the Balkan Wars.
What is Ottoman Empire?
The policy of refusing to take sides in a conflict.
What is Neutrality?
Chemical compound first used in World War I. It was a deadly agent that formed blisters on the skin and in the lungs, often causing death.
What is Mustard Gas?
This empire broke apart as a result of World War I, and Czechoslovakia was one of many new countries who achieved independence from it.
What is Austria-Hungary?
British general who miscalculated and was over-confident at the Battle of the Somme in 1916.
Who was Douglas Haig?
The Franco-Prussian War ended in 1871 with the country of Germany being proclaimed at the Palace of Versailles. In addition, Germany acquired these 2 provinces from France.
What is Alsace and Lorraine?
In 1908, Austria-Hungary took over a province in the Balkans. This angered Serbians who felt the province should be theirs. Serbia threatened war with A-H over this. War was avoided when Russia backed down. This was called the.....
What is Bosnian Crisis?
The military weapon Germany used to combat Great Britain's blockade.
What is the U-Boat?
Otherwise known as the "Spring Offensive" in 1918, this German-named offensive included quick moves by Stormtroopers to find weaknesses in the Allied lines.
What is Kaiserschlacht?