Vocabulary
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The building up of a strong military to be used for intimidation.
What is militarism?
The name given to the alliance of: Austria-Hungary, The Ottoman Empire, and Germany.
What are the Central Powers?
The group of countries allied themselves to form the triple entente (allies) in the years before WWI
What is Britain, France, and Russia?
This armored technological monstrosity allowed soldiers to cross the battlefield.
What is a tank?
The reason the US was not involved in the first 3 years of WWI
What is isolationism?
An extreme pride or love for your country or ethnic group.
What is Nationalism?
The process of persuading people to believe in a certain idea or set of ideas, influencing people's opinion for or against a cause.
What is propaganda?
The name of the British ocean liner that sank that had over 100 Americans onboard.
What is the sinking of the Lusitania?
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This weapon changed the way that WWI was fought. Prior to this creation wars were fought by soldiers charging each other on the battlefield with muskets
What is the Machine gun?
The year that the US entered the war
What is 1917?
A system in which smaller countries "team" up with larger countries for protection.
What is an alliance?
_____ was the largest power that bordered Germany on the Eastern Front.
What is Russia?
The empire in which Franz Ferdinand was from.
What is Austria-Hungary?
Due to the increase in use of chemical warfare, these were invented
What are gas masks?
When two sides face each other in war, and neither can move
What is a stalemate?
When a larger country takes over a smaller country by force.
What is imperialism?
This is the continent that WWI was fought on.
What is Europe?
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This country experienced a revolution and left the war early, eventually becoming communist.
What is Russia?
This new tactic allowed for soldiers to engage in combat using long narrow *this*.
What is trench warfare?
This area was known as the “powder keg” of Europe, because of unrest that existed between the different ethnic groups there.
What is the Balkans?
The event that sparked WWI.
What is assassination of Franz Ferdinand?
This country fought a "two-front war" on both the Western & Eastern Fronts
What is Germany?
When Germany tried to form an alliance with Mexico
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
This technological advancement terrorized Allied trade ships.
What is the U-boat or submarine?
The compromise that was reached between the Allied powers & Germany
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
The land between two enemy lines
What is "No Man's Land"?
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The name of the Front that was known for its trenches.
What is the Western Front?
The 4 MAIN causes that led to WWI.
What is militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism?
Period of time that transformed the world and led to the new technology that was used during WWI
What is the Industrial Revolution?
What is Woodrow Wilson's 14 points?
An agreement made by opposing sides in a war to stop fighting for a certain time
What is an armistice?
A policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries (aka the US prior to 1917)
What is isolationism?
A period of political and social change in *this* Empire, starting in 1917 and lasting into the 1920s.
What is the Russian Revolution?
Used to gather intelligence about the enemy, drop bombs on troops, and contained machine guns to fight in the air
What are airplanes?
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Germany’s plan to attack France through the neutral country of Belgium
What is the Schlieffen Plan?