MAINS 1
What was the event that set WWI in motion?
What is militarism?
Militarism is when countries build up their military capacity (raising an army, building ships, building bombs, etc) and aren't afraid to use it
What country did Germany try to get to join their side in WWI?
Mexico
Who was blamed for WWI
Germany
What was one of the defining features of warfare during the First World War?
Trench warfare
What is nationalism?
Where did most colonization occur in the lead up to WWI?
Africa and Asia
What was the name of the note from the Germans to Mexico that lead to America's entry into WWI.
Zimmerman Note
Which countries were the Big Three powers who deliberated at Versailles?
US, UK, and France
Who were the Allied powers?
France, UK, US (from 1917), and Russia (until 1917)
Which country had the biggest navy prior to WWI?
The UK
When did the US enter WWI?
1917
Who was the US President at Versailles?
Woodrow Wilson
Who were the Central Powers?
Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire
The Spark triggers the war, but the other MAIN are the preconditions necessary for the war to start
Who shot Franz Ferdinand?
Gavrillo Princip
What was one reason Woodrow Wilson gave for not joining the war in 1914?
US would no longer be able to help both sides negotiate for peace because they were not neutral, US would be internally divide between German Americans and Anglo Americans
Georges Clemenceau
Who was the British prime minister at Versailles?
Lloyd George
Who was part of the Triple Alliance?
Germany, Austro-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire
Which countries were part of the triple entente?
Britain, France, and Russia
What German policy lead to the sinking of the Lusitania?
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Name two other things the treaty did to Germany
Forced Germany to demilitarized, pay the allies $6+ million, took Germany's colonies and some German territory
Edith Wilson secretly ran the country after what happened to her husband?