Vocab
A German submarine used during World War I.
U-Boat
This is an agreement between two or more nations to protect one another.
Alliance
This was a war tactic that was used during World War I and was highly ineffective.
Trench Warfare
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
This was the most deadliest weapon used during World War I.
Machine Gun
These are thoughts and ideas that are spread to persuade public opinion.
Propaganda
This is the extreme pride in one's country.
Nationalism
This is where most of the fighting happened during World War I.
France
This ocean liner was sunk by a German U-Boat which killed over 100 American passengers in 1915.
RMS Lusitania
This disease rapidly spread after the end of World War I and killed an estimated 20-50 million people.
Spanish Flu
This German plan called for attacking France first in the west and then rushing East to defeat Russia.
Schlieffen Plan
This is the policy of building up one's army in preparation of war.
Militarism
Name three things that happened to soldiers while living in the trenches.
Trench foot, no electricity, nor running water, PTSD, unsanitary living conditions, rapid spread of diseases, etc.
This was a secret message sent from Germany to Mexico asking for an alliance between the two.
Zimmermann Telegram
This area was a deadlocked region of France during the war.
Western Front
This officially ended World War I and placed the blame on Germany in 1919.
Treaty of Versailles
This is when a stronger nation takes over a weaker nation in order to gain control of their land and resources.
Imperialism
This tactic used by the Germans caused the U.S. to enter World War I in 1917.
Submarine Warfare
He was President of the U.S. during World War I.
Woodrow Wilson
This is where the allied powers and Germany met to discuss the end of World War I.
Paris Peace Conference
This is an agreement to stop fighting.
Name the countries that make up both sides during World War I.
Triple Alliance: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy
Triple Entente: Great Britain, France, Russia, U.S. (1917)
President Woodrow Wilson had to ask this group for a declaration of war against Germany in 1917.
Congress
He was a Serbian nationalist who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914.
Gavrilo Princip
This empire lasted over 600 years and ended with the end of World War I in 1918.