Causes
Massive build up of military and weapons that resulted in an arms race between Britain and Germany
What is Militarism?
New disease that developed due to wet conditions and poor sanitation in the trenches
What is trench foot?
New rapid fire gun that made advancement difficult
What are machine guns/Maxim gun?
November 11, 1918
Organization of countries created after the war to prevent future wars
What is the League of Nations?
Agreements between countries, sometimes made in secret, promising to aide each other in case of attack
What is Alliances?
Reason for development of trenches
What is new weapons were used more for defense/distance and to protect soldiers?
Armored vehicles that could cross rough terrain
What are tanks?
2 things that brought US into the war
What are the Zimmerman Note and unrestricted submarine warfare/sinking the Lusitania?
Feelings felt by many German citizens after WWI
What is resentment/betrayal?
The policy of extending an empire's power and influence over smaller countries through military force
What is Imperialism?
Area in between two opposing trenches
What is No Man's Land?
New weapon that caused blisters, burns, blindness, and choking
What is poison gas?
Treaty that ended WWI
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Number of soldiers killed in battle throughout the war
What is 9 million?
People feel loyalty and devotion to their country/culture or extreme patriotism
What is Nationalism?
Location of the trenches
What is the Western Front or border between France and Germany?
Deadliest weapon of World War I
What is heavy artillery?
Reason Russia left WWI
What is the Russian Revolution/ Bolshevik Revolution/ civil war?
Number of civilians killed during World War I
What is 10 million?
The assassination of this person was the lynchpin to WWI
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
3 examples of difficult conditions in the trenches
What are lice, cramped space, rats, flooding, and disease?
5 examples of technology/weapons that were developed or improved during WWI
What are Tanks, Poison Gas, Machine Guns, Heavy Artillery, Airplanes, Submarines/ U-Boats, Facial Reconstruction, Trenches, Flamethrowers
What are Wilson's 14 points?
Pandemic that spread during and after the war, killing an additional 50 million people worldwide
What is Influenza of 1918/Spanish Flu?