Vocab
Increasing one's military strength
What is Militarism?
Name of the event in which European powers carved up a continent into their colonies.
What is Scramble for Africa?
Name of Alliance that supported Serbia.
Who are the Allied Powers?
The event that sparked the First World War.
What is the Assassination of Franz Ferdinand?
To not get involved in world affairs.
What is To Isolationism?
The territory that was purchased from Russia, later becoming the 49th state.
What is Alaska?
Name of Alliance that supported Austria-Hungary?
Who are the Central Powers?
A promise from Germany to not attack any neutral ships that enter their waters.
What is the Sussex Pledge?
Information designed to influence opinions.
What is Propaganda?
America expanded their empire here through building a canal.
What is Panama?
A country that was part of the Allied powers (other than Serbia)
What is Britain, France, Russia, Italy, U.S, Portugal, Romania, Montenegro, or Greece?
Message sent to Mexico from Germany asking for their alliance and promising U.S territory in return.
Defense agreements among nations.
What are Alliances?
President that encouraged America to practice Isolationism.
Who is George Washington?
One country that was part of the Central Powers. (not Austria-Hungary).
What is Germany, Bulgaria, or the Ottoman/Turkish Empire?
The event that would lead to the U.S finally declaring war on Germany and joining the allies.
What is the Sinking of the Lusitania?
Creating large empires through political and economic control of weaker nations.
What is Imperialism?
2 ways America influenced other nations to gain control.
What is Politics?
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What is Economics?
What is Spain, Albania, Denmark, Netherlands, Norway, Luxembourg, or Sweden?
4 factors that increased tensions and led to WWI.
What are Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism?
Germany asked for this, which led to the end of WWI.
Germany asked for this, which led to the end of WWI.