Causes
Considered one of the causes of World War I, this term is used to describe a time when countries glorified war, created new milotary technology and built up armies.
What is militarism?
It is when soldiers dig a series of depressions in the ground to protect themselves from machine gun and artillery fire and was a major caharacteristic of World War I.
What are trenches?
It was a World War I alliance consisting of Britain, France and Russia.
What was the Triple Entente?
This was a famous World War I batle known for hitting the million mark in casaulties.
What was the Battle of Verdun?
This is a term used to describe a policy of not being involved in international affairs. It was the US Foreign Policy at the start of World War I and the reason the US did not initially join.
What is Isolationist?
He was the person whose' assasination sparked World War I. He was the nephew of and hier to Franz Joseph, Emperor of Austria-Hungary, when he was assasinated by a Serbian nationalist, Gavril Princip. The event set the series of events into motion that quickly led to World War I.
Who was Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
What are tanks and airplanes?
It was a World War I Alliance made up of Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire.
What was the Central Powers?
A virus that swept through World War I soldiers and later the world, contributing to the war's high death toll.
What was the Spanish Flu?
Federal agency formed to coordinate production of goods needed for World war I.
It is an area in southern Europe including modern-day Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, and Slovenia. It was an area that before World War I was the site of great ethnic nationslist strife and turned out to be the "powder keg," that set off World war I.
What are the Balkans?
It was a clause inserted into the Treaty of Versailles that forced Germany to assume total blame for the war and to pay reparations.
What was the War Guilt Clause?
Who was Kaiser Wilhelm II?
Leader of the 1917 revolution in Russia that overthew the Romanov dynasy and installed a communist government.
Who was Vladimir Lenin?
What was "No Man's Land?"
It was a secret telegram from Germany to Mexico offering an alliance in which Mexico attacks the US ine xchnage for lands lost in the Mexican American war. Public discovery of this telegram angered Americans and hastened the country's eventual entry into the war.
What was the Zimmerman Telegraph?
Woodrow Wilson's plan for post war peace.
What was the Fourteen Points?
The last czar of Russia, killed by revolutionaries with the rest of his family.
Who was Czar Nicholas II?
It was what they called the newly formed communist state after the 1917 revolution in Russia.
What was the Soviet Union?
The US sold these and essentially it meant that those buying them were "lending" the government money with the promise of being paid back with interest.
What are Liberty Bonds?
It was the British liner blown up by a German U-Boat in May of 1915.
What was the Luistania?
It was an organization of countries formed after World War I intended to prevent another war.
What was the League of Nations?
He was the US General who was the commander of the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I.
Who was General John J. Pershing?
Nonagression pact between Germany and the newly formed communist state in Russia which allowed Germany to disengage from the eastern front and focus on the western front.
What was the Brest-Litovsk Treaty?
Two acts of congress that clamped down on opposition to the war during World War I.
What are the Espionage and Sedition Acts?