WWI Causes
A fast and aggressive strengthening of armed forces.
What is militarism?
This type of warfare featured long manmade ditches and "no man's land".
What is trench warfare?
This term describes payments made by the losing country to pay for damages and cost of the war.
What is war reparations?
Mutual agreement between at least 2 countries that address political, economic or military concerns.
What are alliances?
Secret telegram sent to Mexico suggesting an alliance with Germany against the United States.
What is the Zimmerman Note?
A situation where neither side could win a victory due to trench warfare no real gain was made.
What is a stalemate?
This country had to accept full responsibility for the war.
What is Germany?
Annexing as much territory and land as possible to increase the size and power of your empire.
What is imperialism?
This policy of aggressive action at sea by the Germans also led to American involvement in the war.
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
Gathering and organizing large quantities of resources across society to prepare for war.
What is Mobilization?
This was proposed as a peacekeeping organization following WWI and was part of the Treaty of Versailles.
What is the League of Nations?
Short-term loans that individual citizens made to the government that financed two-thirds of the war's cost.
What are war bonds?
Pride in one's country and the willingness to fight for it.
What is nationalism?
Britain, France, Russia, Serbia, US, Italy
What are the Allied Powers
The right of a group of people with similar identities to create a territory and form a government based on their political views.
What is Self Determination?
Two laws were enacted to impose harsh penalties on anyone interfering with or speaking against U.S participation in WWI.
What are the Espionage and Sedition Acts?
In 1917 Russia was taken over by __(?)___ causing the country to pull out of the war and deal with its own civil war.
What is communism?
Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated which resulted in an immediate cause of the start of WWI between these two countries.
What are Austria-Hungary and Serbia?
Put these events in the correct chronological order.
a. US declared war on Germany
b. American newspapers publish the Zimmermann Note
c. US president Woodrow Wilson announced that the US will remain neutral.
d. Armistice
C, B, A, D
Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause. ex. Uncle Sam and other various posters used to "sell the war"
What is propaganda?
New countries were created such as Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia as the Allies divided territory taken from the defeated empires, reshaping borders to weaken Germany and Austria-Hungary and to support the idea of national self-determination.
How was land divided among the winning nations after World War I?
Improved surgical procedures, the widespread use of blood transfusions, and advances in antiseptics that reduced infections.
What major medical advancements were developed during World War I?