The Road to War
This event sparked the First World War.
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
Name the first two (most important two) countries in the Central Powers.
Austro-Hungarian Empire and the German Empire
The Western Front was mostly characterized by this tactic. Soldiers faced terrible living conditions and constant shelling here.
What is Trench Warfare?
The name for the day that the fighting was brought to an end on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month (11am, Nov 11) 1918.
The crown prince of the Austro-Hungarian empire
Who is Franz Ferdinand?
In the wake of the industrial revolution and an increased ability to build new weapons and ships, nations in Europe competed with each other to build larger armies and navies than ever before.
What is Militarism?
Name the four most important Allied countries.
France, Russia, Britain, United States
Following the First Battle of the Marne, both sides settled into trenches along the French-German border and neither could come to a decisive victory. Instead fighting over a few hundred yards for months at a time. This long, drawn out situation led to more death and zapped troop morale.
The name for repayments of war damages that Germany was made to pay France, Britain, Russia, and the US.
What are reparations?
The author of the 14 Points and US president during the First World War.
Who is Woodrow Wilson
Preparing a military for war. Can include building supply lines, amassing troops, conscription (drafting new soldiers), and more.
What is mobilize?
How did Europe look different after the First World War? What countries are gone and what countries now exist?
Redrawn borders of Germany, the former Austro-Hungarian empire, the former Ottoman Empire, and new separate countries in their place (Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Transjordan, Syria, Iraq, etc)
Factory work and ship-yard work at home. Nursing, ambulance drivers, telephone operators, military secretaries, and interpreters on the war front.
What were jobs of women in WWI?
Woodrow Wilson's proposals for post-war peace. Included ending secret alliances, removing barriers to trade between nations, supporting self-government, reducing military strength, and the creation of the League of Nations.
What are Wilson's 14 Points?
Communist leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
The loss of 1,200 civilians on a passenger ship, including 128 Americans, at the hands of the Germans that raised public support for an American entry into World War 1.
What was the sinking of the Lusitania?
The strong desire for statehood or national unity among people of common language, culture, or ethnicity. Such as the unification of multiple German-speaking kingdoms into a single German empire, or Slavic groups rebelling against the Austro-Hungarian Empire to create their own empire.
Nationalism
Due to this event in 1917, Russia withdrew from the war allowing Germany to send reinforcements from the Eastern front to the Western front.
The international peacekeeping organization created by Woodrow Wilson to prevent a Second World War.
What is the League of Nations?
The Russian monarch deposed in 1917.
What is the Zimmerman Note?
The name of the alliance between France, Russia, and Great Britain before the war.
The name of the alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy before the war.
What is Triple Entente?
What is Triple Alliance?
The First World War is known as the first modern war. Name 4 of the new inventions that make the war even more deadly, and tell me why are they all showing up now and not 20-30 years earlier.
Machine guns, planes, chemical weapons, tanks, and heavy artillery. Industrialism.
The war officially ended with the signing of this document. It mandated harsh punishment for Germany, carved up new borders out of defeated empires, and planted seeds for future conflict.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
The ruler of the German Empire at the onset of the First World War.
Kaiser Vilhelm II