Vocabulary
Agreement that officially ended World War I
Treaty of Versailles
The expanding/building up of the military
militarism
The space between opposing trenches.
"No Man's Land"
This organization was created to promote world peace and prevent another world war
This alliance made up of Great Britain, France, Russia, and later the U.S. in 1917.
Allied Powers
Not to take sides
Large strong countries taking over small weak countries
imperialism
These were used for the first time in warfare.
Airplanes
The Allies blamed what country for the war?
Germany
This alliance was made up of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire
Central Powers
Payments for war damages
reparations
An agreement between nations to provide aid and protect one another; partnership
alliance
These weapons were developed by Germans and could cause blindness, choking, burns, and even death
Poison gas
This clause of the Treaty of Versailles placed the entire blame on Germany for the war and required them to pay reparations
War-Guilt Clause
Why did the U.S. originally stay out of the war?
The U.S. did not want to upset immigrants and did not want to get involved with Europe's problems
An agreement to end the fighting
armistice
The belief that your country is superior
nationalism
These were introduced by the British and allowed soldiers to move across No Man's Land
Tank
President Wilson's plan for world peace, which included self-determination and the creation of the League of Nations
Fourteen Points
When did World War I end?
November 11, 1918 at 11am
self-determination
Whose assassination sparked the beginning of World War I?
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
German word for submarine
U-Boat/Unterseeboot
What four countries made the major decisions at the Paris Peace Conference?
United States, Great Britain, France, and Italy
What were the 3 reasons why the U.S. entered WWI?
1. Sinking of the Lusitania
2. German unrestricted submarine warfare
3. Zimmermann Note