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European nations were in constant competition with each other, requiring large armies, colonies, and what types of agreements to protect their empires?

Alliances

100
Due to a stalemate between sides, these stretched across Europe for miles and participants in the war were separated by a "no man's land" of barbed wire.
What is trench warfare?
100
Allowed soldiers to fire hundreds of bullets in seconds.
What is the machine gun?
100
Americans sacrificed on "meatless Mondays and wheatless Wednesdays".
What is rationing?
100
Country that supported the Whites in the Russian Revolution

USA

200
Term for building arms and a focus on military power.
What is militarism?
200
Attacking merchant ships to disrupt British supply lines, these battles outraged neutral nations.
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
200
An armored vehicle that could carry soldiers through the front cutting down soldiers in the field.
What is a tank?
200
Americans helped fund the war by buying these in the war effort.
What are Liberty Bonds?
200
Leader of the Russian Revolution and Bolshevik party.
Who is Lenin?
300
Intense loyalty to one's nation. A nation is a territory where the people share a common language, history, ethnicity, values, and beliefs.
What is nationalism?
300
This battle was the longest of the war, was waged between February to December 1916, and led to the death of almost one million men for 1/2 mile of territory.
What is the Battle of Verdun?
300
A savage and deadly wepon, it could kill hundreds with a single deadly firing in the enemy's direction. Even the soldiers firing it had to protect themselves from it.
What is poison gas?
300
Governments used this technique to ensure that their citizens supported the war.
What is propaganda?
300

Created to control resources in the Middle East

Mandates

400
The "spark" that ignited the war.
What is the assassination of Franz Ferdinand?
400
This passenger ship was sunk by a German submarine killing Americans onboard. While the British were secretly carrying weapons, the Germans got a media "black eye" from the event.
What is the sinking of the Lusitania?
400
Used for spying and locating enemy troops, sometimes forced into dog fighting

What is the airplane?

400

Final straw that forced US into WWI

Zimmerman Note

400

Created in order to prevent future wars

What is the League of Nations?

500
This nation was a natural ally of the Serbs and began to mobilize due to its vast size leading other nations to jump to war readiness.
What is Russia?
500

Forced Germany to accept full and complete sole responsibility for causing WWI

What is the War Guilt Clause

500
The British called this invention "unfair and uncivilized"

What is the submarine?

500
President Wilson advocated open trading on the seas, free trade, and self-determination for nations, along with a League of Nations.
What is the Fourteen Points?
500
Lawrence of Arabia led to an Arab revolt which the Turks blamed on who?
The Armenians