Causes
The building up of friendships in which each country agrees to back and help their "friend" in case of attack by another country.
What is the Alliance System?
The most terror-inspiring weapon of WWI.
What was poison gas?
The country who entered the war in 1917 after trying to remain neutral
What is the US?
According to the War Guilt Clause, this country had to accept sole blame for starting the war.
What is Germany?
Ditches that the soldiers fought from.
What are trenches?
This country was experiencing a revolution back home and its citizens were starving.
What was Russia?
Not taking sides in a war
What is neutral?
The building up of one's country by taking over other's territory and taking their natural resources for your use.
What is imperialism?
This weapon is the improved version of the Gatling gun.
What was the machine gun?
Commanding officers would shout this when it was time for their soldiers to leave the trenches, run across No Man’s Land, and try to take the enemy trenches.
What was "Over the Top"?
This country started out in the Triple Alliance but switched after the war started and joined the "good guys"- the Allies.
Who was Italy?
This country never sent a single soldier to fight on the Allied side but was one of the Allies.
This was the country they chose to attack instead.
Who was Japan?
What was China?
The land between the trenches.
What was No Man's Land?
This was a yellow oily liquid that smelled like pineapples and was the worst poison gas of all.
What was mustard gas?
What is Nationalism?
What invention was only 11 years old at the beginning of WWI?
Most of the fighting in WWI occurred along the border between this country and Germany.
What was France?
The Bad guys were...
What was Germany, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria and Austria-Hungary?
The name of the paper that all sides signed at the end of the war.
What was the Treaty of Versailles?
This improved weapon was used during WWI and was one of the main reasons the soldiers had to dig trenches.
What was the machine gun?
an agreement to stop fighting
What is an armistice?
The building up of one's army in preparation of taking over other countries.
What is militarism?
This was the German invention that was created to float quietly over the enemy lines so you could spy on them.
What is a zeppelin?
The president of the US during WWI.
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
This territory was to be kept free of German military personnel and weapons according to the Treaty of Versailles.
What was the Rhineland?
128 Americans died when this ship was sunk by the Germans.
What was the Lusitania?
This was invented by the British and was used to cross No Man's Land.
It went an incredible_ mph.
What was the tank?
What was 5 miles per hour?
losers in a war having to pay money to the victors
What are reparations?
The assassination of this man and his wife caused the war to start. He was assassinated by this man. (You must name all three.)
Who was Archduke Franz Ferdinand, his wife Sofie and they were assassinated by Gavrilo Princip?
What was the name of the British mortar weapon that could shoot explosives for up to 30 miles. (Do not say the 30 mile gun)
What was Big Bertha?
The good guys were...
Japan, Russia, Greece, Portugal, Italy, Great Britain, Belgium, Albania, Romania, France, US, Serbia
According to the Treaty of Versailles the word “Anschluss” meant that Germany was not allowed to unite with this country.
What was Austria?
The U.S. was not allowed to join this group after WWI because U.S. senators believed that membership in the group would drag the U.S. into conflicts.
What was the League of Nations?
This was signed after WWI in Geneva, Switzerland and stated that what weapon would never be used in war again.
What was the Geneva Protocol?
You do not want to get involved in the problems of other people and want to remain separated... This is what the US tried to be.
What is isolationism?