Technology
This British invention was designed to ignore machine gun fire and crush through barbed wire.
What is the tank?
The assassination of this person by a member of the Black Hand (A Serbian Nationalist Group) in Sarajevo was the "spark" that set off the M.A.I.N. causes.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
This is the compensation that a nation defeated in a war pays a victorious nation for damages or losses suffered during the war.
What are reparations?
This "Idea Man" led the Bolsheviks and promised the people "Peace, Land, and Bread".
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
This term describes the deadlocked war in the trenches where neither side could gain an advantage.
What is a Stalemate?
These giant airships were filled with explosive hydrogen gas and used to bomb London at night.
What are Zepplins?
This term describes the "Arms Race" where countries like Britain and Germany competed to build the most Dreadnoughts (massive battleships) and other war technology.
What is Militarism?
This 1919 treaty officially ended the war but is often blamed for causing the next one.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This was the name of the last Tsar of Russia, who was eventually executed by the Bolsheviks.
Who is Nicholas II?
This political system values the strength of the nation over the rights of the individual.
What is Fascism?
This German war tactic eventually drew the United States into World War I.
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
This British passenger ship (secretly harboring ammunition) was sunk by a German Submarine's torpedo, killing 128 Americans and many others.
What is the Lusitania?
This international group was created to keep the peace but failed because it had no power to enforce its rules.
What is the League of Nations?
This "Man of Steel" took over after Lenin and became a total dictator.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
This leader in India used non-violence and "Civil Disobedience" to fight for independence.
Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
This weapon was first used at the Battle of Ypres in 1915 and led to blisters and burns on the skin.
What is Mustard Gas?
This famous note said that if Mexico helped Germany, they would be given back its "lost territory"
What is the Zimmerman note?
This National Socialist German Workers Party promised to ignore the Treaty of Versailles and make Germany strong again.
What are Nazis?
This was the name of the radical communist group that seized power in Russia in 1917.
Who are the Bolsheviks?
This group was blamed by the German dictator for their economic crisis before WWII
Who are the Jews?
The invention of this "gear" allowed pilots to fire machine guns through their spinning propellers without hitting the blades.
What is the Synchronization Gear?
This was the German plan to knock France out of the war quickly before turning to fight Russia.
What is the Schlieffen Plan?
These types of leaders emerged in the USSR, Italy, Germany, and Japan following WWI because of poor economies rooted in treaty terms.
What are dictatorial/totalitarian leaders?
This organizer of the fascist party in Italy had supporters called the "Black Shirts".
Who is Mussolini?
The Ottomans, a Central Power that practiced in the Islamic Religion, instituted this state-sponsored killing of a Christian ethnic group during WWI.
What is the Armenian Genocide?