Causes of WWI
THIS WAS THE NICKNAME FOR THE BALKANS (OR THE BALKAN PENINSULA) DUE TO OVERLAPPING CLAIMS AND CONFLICT IN THE REGION
“Powder Keg” or “Powder Keg of Europe”
THE AREA BETWEEN TRENCHES IS KNOWN AS THIS
No Man’s Land
HE WAS THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES WHO RAN FOR REELECTION IN 1916 ON THE CAMPAIGN SLOGAN: “HE KEPT US OUT OF WAR”
Woodrow Wilson
HE WAS THE LAST CZAR OF RUSSIA
Who is Nicholas II?
THIS WAS SIGNED AROUND THE 11TH HOUR OF THE 11TH DAY OF THE 11TH MONTH, 1918
What is the armistice?
THIS POLICY OF GLORIFYING MILITARY POWER LED TO A COMPETITION BETWEEN BRITAIN AND GERMANY FOR THE STRONGEST NAVY
Militarism
THIS WEAPON WAS FIRST WIDELY USED DURING WORLD WAR I ON THE WESTERN FRONT TO ASPHYXIATE THE ENEMY
What is poison gas?
THIS BRITISH CRUISE LINER WAS SUNK BY A GERMAN U-BOAT WHILE CARRYING 128 AMERICAN PASSENGERS, ANGERING THE AMERICAN PUBLIC
Lusitania
HE WAS THE LEADER OF THE BOLSHEVIK PARTY AND THE ORGANIZER OF A COUP D’ETAT
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
THE TREATY THAT ENDED WORLD WAR I WAS SIGNED IN THIS CITY
What is Paris, France?
EUROPEAN NATIONS COMPETING FOR POWER VIA CONTROL OF COLONIES AROUND THE GLOBE ILLUSTRATES THIS CAUSE
Imperialism
THIS NEW WEAPON WAS USED TO BREAK THE STALEMATE OF TRENCH WARFARE
What is the tank?
IN THE ZIMMERMAN NOTE, A SECRET TELEGRAM SENT BY GERMANY OFFERED THIS
What is help Mexico reclaim land in the southwestern U.S. if they declared war on the U.S.
THIS WAS THE MASSACRE OF PEACEFUL PROTESTERS IN ST. PETERSBURG, MARKING THE BEGINNING OF THE VIOLENT PHASE OF THE REVOLUTION
What is Bloody Sunday?
ONE OF THE TERMS OF THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES STATED THAT GERMANY HAD TO PAY 33 BILLION DOLLARS IN THESE
What are reparations?
THIS SYSTEM WAS MEANT TO KEEP PEACE IN EUROPE, BUT WOULD EVENTUALLY LEAD THEM ALL TO WAR
Alliances
THE GERMANS PRACTICED THIS WHEN THEY COULD SINK MILITARY AND CIVILIAN VESSELS WITHOUT WARNING
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
THESE ADVERTISEMENTS WERE AIMED AT CONVINCING PEOPLE TO JOIN AND SUPPORT THE WAR EFFORT
What is Propaganda?
THE U.S. BACKS THIS GROUP IN THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION CIVIL WAR, ESTABLISHING THE RIVALRY FOR THE NEXT 70 YEARS
What is the White Army?
THIS KEY INDUSTRIAL REGION OF GERMANY WAS TO BE DEMILITARIZED AFTER THE WAR
What is the Rhineland?
THE ASSASSINATION OF ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND BY GAVRILO PRINCIP ILLUSTRATED INTENSE THIS
Nationalism
THIS BATTLE WAS AN ALLIED ATTACK ON ENTRENCHED GERMAN FORCES THAT DETERIORATED INTO A BATTLE OF ATTRITION, RESULTING IN OVER 1.2 MIL CASUALTIES
What is the Battle of the Somme? (Somme Offensive)
IN ORDER TO RAISE TROOPS FOR WAR, U.S. CONGRESS PASSED THIS
What is the Selective Service Act?
IN HIS BOOK, THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO, KARL MARX DIVIDES SOCIETY INTO THESE 2 CLASSES
What are the bourgeoisie (owns society’s wealth and means of production) and the proletariat (working class)?
FOLLOWING THE ARMISTICE, THIS SPECIFIC CLAUSE OF THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES FORCED GERMANY TO ACCEPT FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR CAUSING THE WAR, SERVING AS A MAJOR POINT OF NATIONAL HUMILIATION.
What is the War Guilt Clause?