Causes of War
This acronym represents the four long-term causes of WWI.
What is MAIN?
Germany created this plan to avoid fighting a two-front war.
What is the Schlieffen Plan?
This organization used propaganda posters to influence public opinion during the war.
What is the Committee on Public Information (CPI)?
This international organization was created after WWI to prevent future conflicts.
What is the League of Nations?
The dangerous space between trenches was called this.
What is No Man's Land?
The 1915 sinking of this ship helped turn U.S. public opinion against Germany.
What is the Lusitania?
This battle was the largest US-led offensive towards the end of WWI.
What is the Meuse- Argonne Offensive?
This U.S. law punished anti-war speech and criticism of the government.
What is the Sedition Act?
This symbolic location, reused by Hitler in 1940 to force France’s surrender, is where the World War I armistice was originally signed.
What is a railway car?
This theory describes how confusion and limited information shape decisions during war.
What is the fog of war?
This extremist group assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
What is the Black Hand?
German troops debuted the flamethrower in this battle.
What is the Battle of Verdun?
This 1917 British statement supported creating a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
What is the Balfour Declaration?
After Britain forced the surrender of Jerusalem during WWI, they later partitioned Palestine, creating this country.
What is Israel?
This British intercept revealed Germany’s attempt to persuade Mexico to attack the U.S.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
This MAIN category is responsible for how one war declaration would often lead to a series of war declarations during WWI.
What are alliances?
This battle is known as the deadliest day in British military history.
What is the Battle of the Somme?
The treaty that ended fighting between Russia and Germany in early 1918 and influenced the Ukrainian Conflict today.
What is the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
This medical innovation cut the fatality rate of femur fractures from around 80% to under 20%.
What is the Thomas Splint?
This event in 1918 forced Russia to withdraw from the war.
What is the Bolshevik Revolution?
THIS country was the first to declare war in World War I against THIS country.
What is Austria-Hungry & Serbia?
This 1915 battle in Belgium marked the first large-scale German use of poison gas.
What is the Battle of Ypres?
This supreme court case questioned the constitutionality of the Espionage Act.
What is Schenck v. the United States?
Woodrow Wilson’s postwar plan for peace included this idea about allowing groups to choose their own governments.
What is self-determination?
The Spanish Flu is believed to have originated at this military base (the base name of US State name will count).
What is Camp Funston or Kansas?