World War 1 - 1
A union formed between countries for shared benefit.
What is an Alliance?
These new industrial weapons contributed to making World War I so deadly
(Tanks, long range artillery, submarines, poison gas, war planes, machine guns, grenades)
political ideology promoting loyalty and pride in one's cultural group, sometimes accompanied by feelings of superiority over other groups.
What is Nationalism?
One of the treaties that ended the First World War; it put harsh rules on Germany.
A foreign policy in which a powerful nation controls and exploits one or more colonies and, during the late 19th century and early 20th century, contributed to European rivalry.
What is Imperialism?
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire formed this alliance group.
Who were the Triple Alliance?
France, Great Britain, Russia formed this alliance group.
Who were the Triple Entente?
What was the spark which triggered the outbreak of a global war?
What is the assignation of the Archduke of Austria Hungary?
These states were the members of the Triple Entente alliance and became one of the two sides in the war.
Britain, France, Russia
During the war, the Triple Entente and states who joined them were known as this.
What is the Allied Powers?
Which of the underlying causes of World War One was linked to Austria-Hungary declaring war on Russia because Germany was already at war with Russia?
Alliances
a deadlock in which neither side is strong enough to defeat the other
What is a stalemate?
A British cruise-liner with 128 Americans on it- torpedoed by a German submarine.
What is the Lusitania?
Government's created these laws to require men to enlist in military service to fight in the war
What is the draft? (or Selective Service)
The area of land in between opposing trenches
What is No Man's Land?
In the United States, how did the media and government propaganda depict German immigrants?
What are "monsters and villain's"?
payments to cover damages (in war)
What are reparations?
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 two main reasons the US entered WWI.
What are the sinking of the Lusitania and the Zimmerman Telegram?
An agreement to cease hostilities and stop fighting.
What is an armistice?
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?
a conflict in which states pour all of their political, economic and social resources into the war effort
What is total war?
What is "Fourteen Points"
the right of a group to decide its own form of government
What is Self determination?