WWI -Airplanes
Trashketball Bonus: A union formed between countries for shared benefit.
What is an Alliance?
A belief that a strong military force should be kept and used aggressively to defend or promote national interests
What is Militarism?
loyalty and pride in your nation or people and can be accompanied by feelings of superiority over other nations.
What is Nationalism?
Treaty that ended the First World War; it put harsh rules on Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
A system where a powerful nation controls and exploits a country or colony politically and economically.
Imperialism
Attack plan by Germans, lightning quick attack against France. Proposed to go through Belgium then attack France. This was Germany's plan at the beginning of the war so they wouldn't have to fight a war on two fronts.
Schlieffen Plan
Trashketball Bonus: Name two countries apart of the Allies during WWI?
France, England, Russia, U.S., etc.
Name two countries that were apart of the Central Powers?
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria
Who shot Franz Ferdinand?
Gavrilo Princip
Trashketball Bonus: Who was the president of the U.S. during WWI?
Woodrow Wilson
This sort of fighting style or warfare came to dominate WWI tactics, so soldiers can protect themselves from the new and improved weapons of the war.
Trench Warfare
Trashketball Bonus: a deadlock in which neither side is strong enough to defeat the other
What is a stalemate?
Trashketball Bonus: A British cruise-liner with 128 Americans on it- torpedoed by a German submarine.
What is the Lusitania?
Trashketball Bonus: Selective Service Act required men to register for...
What is the military draft?
Trashketball Bonus: The area of land in between opposing trenches
What is No Man's Land?
Trashketball Bonus: By buying these types of documents, U.S. citizens were lending money to the government to pay for the war.
What are liberty bonds?
Spark that began World War 1
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
Trashketball Bonus: A note from Germany to Mexico urging Mexico to attack the US
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
Information produced by governments, presented in such a way as to inspire and spread certain beliefs or opinions
What is propaganda?
The main goal(s) of Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points was to _____________________.
To promote Peace
This was the U.S. foreign policy prior to and at the beginning of WWI?
Isolationism or Neutrality
a group of countries trying to protect the independence of all countries- small or large. Organization formed after WWI
What is the League of Nations?
the idea that a nation pours all of its political, economic and social resources at the war effort
What is total war?
Trashketball Bonus: payments to cover damages (in war)
What are reparations?
It is a psychological condition resulting from the stress a soldier experiences during battle. Symptoms include (but are not limited to) tremors, loss of sight or hearing, and extreme fatigue.
Shell Shocked