Causes
This term refers to the buildup of armed forces and glorification of war before WWI.
What is militarism?
Most of the fighting between Germany and France occurred on this front.
What is the Western Front?
This deadly gas caused blindness and suffocation and was first used in WWI.
What is mustard gas?
This was the term for spreading ideas to influence public opinion for or against a cause.
What is propaganda?
WWI ended in this year.
What is 1918?
This alliance included Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.
What is the Triple Alliance?
This style of warfare involved deep ditches and led to a stalemate.
What is trench warfare?
These large armored vehicles were first used at the Battle of the Somme.
What are tanks?
This term describes when a country devotes all its resources to the war effort.
What is total war?
This treaty formally ended WWI and blamed Germany for the war.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
The assassination of this man sparked the beginning of WWI.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
This 1916 battle was one of the bloodiest of WWI, with over 700,000 casualties.
What is the Battle of Verdun?
This new kind of warfare took place in the skies during WWI.
What is aerial combat or dogfighting?
In the U.S., this act required men to register for military service.
What is the Selective Service Act?
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson proposed this peace plan with 14 points.
What is the Fourteen Points?
This region in Europe, full of nationalist tension, was called the "powder keg."
What is the Balkans?
This battle stopped the German advance into France in 1914.
What is the First Battle of the Marne?
German U-boats primarily targeted these during naval warfare.
What are Allied merchant and passenger ships?
During WWI, many women entered this area of society due to labor shortages.
What is the workforce or factories?
This international organization was created after WWI to maintain peace but failed to prevent WWII.
What is the League of Nations?
This long-standing diplomatic agreement between France, Britain, and Russia countered the Triple Alliance.
What is the Triple Entente?
This Allied campaign in the Ottoman Empire was a failure and led to heavy losses, especially for ANZAC forces.
What is the Gallipoli Campaign?
This weapon, mounted with a rotating barrel, could fire hundreds of bullets per minute.
What is a machine gun?
Citizens helped fund the war effort by buying these government-issued certificates.
What are war bonds?
Germany was forced to accept this clause, placing full blame for the war on them.
What is the War Guilt Clause?