Causes of WW1
This man was assassinated by a Bosnian terrorist.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
The year WWI began.
1914.
President of the US during WWI.
Woodrow Wilson.
Alliance
Groups working together or teaming up to benefit everyone involved.
Which side won WWI?
______ declared war on ________ and WWI began.
Austria Hungary, Serbia
What important contribution did Native Americans provide during WWI?
They used their native language as a secret code for the Allies.
Name the Central Powers.
Austria-Hungary, Germany, Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria
Treaty
An agreement or contract between two groups.
Name of the document that ended WWI. It called for peace after the war and demanded that Germany pay for the damages it caused.
Treaty of Versailles
Name of the British passenger ship that was sunk by the Germans.
Lusitania
Name of German submarines that were used for attack.
U-boats
Name the Allies or Allied Powers.
Serbia, Russia, France, Belgium, Great Britain, and Italy.
Neutral
Not helping or supporting either side in a conflict
Name 2 losses that Germany faced after the war.
1. 33 billion to the allies
2. 1 million square miles of land
3. its colonies
4. disarm its military
Why did the US enter the war?
Germany sunk many of their ships that were carrying supplies to Europe.
The alliance that the US joined when they entered the war.
Allies or Allied Powers
How did the US help the Allies before they decided to even enter the war?
They sent food and supplies and blocked supplies from reaching Germany.
Reparations
payment required by a defeated nation
Name a medical invention that was created during WWI.
Mobile ambulances, blood banks, plastic surgery, transfusions
__________ between countries caused the conflict of WWI to grow stronger.
Alliances
The war ended on _______. (Month, day, and year)
November 11, 1918
Who were the Harlem Rattlers?
a group of African-American volunteer soldiers who fought in the trenches during World War I