Terms

Question 1

War of attrition

Answer 1

A war where ones enemy is worn down to the point of collapse by continuous losses in people, food, and war weapons

Question 2

Armistice

Answer 2

Agreement to stop fighting

Question 3

Stalemate

Answer 3

Deadlock in which neither side is able to defeat the other

Question 4

Reparations

Answer 4

Payments for war damage

Question 5

Total war

Answer 5

All people and resources devoted to war effort

Question 6

Nationalism

Answer 6

Having pride in your country, willing to defend it

Question 7

Imperialism

Answer 7

Trying to build up an empire

Question 8

Fourteen points

Answer 8

A series of peace proposals

Question 9

Zimmerman telegram

Answer 9

Proposal to Mexico from Germany to attack the US. Turned Americans against Germany

Question 10

Treaty of Versailles

Answer 10

Treaty ending world war 1

Question 11

Convoys

Answer 11

Groups of merchant ships surrounded by military ships for protection

Question 12

Big four

Answer 12

Representatives from Britain, US, France, and Italy who wrote the treaty of Versailles

Question 13

Treaty of breast-litovsk

Answer 13

Treaty between Germany and Russia that allowed Germany to concentrate all of their troops on the western front

Question 14

Schlieffen plan

Answer 14

Germany’s plan for fighting France and Russia (Germany defeats France in 6 weeks and then attack Russia)

Question 15

No man’s land

Answer 15

The stretch of land between the two opposing front-line trenches

Question 16

Self-determination

Answer 16

Process by which a country determines its own statehood and forms it’s own allegiances and government

Question 17

League of Nations

Answer 17

international assembly of nations: goal to keep peace among nations

Question 18

Militarism

Answer 18

Building up armed forces, getting ready for the war

Question 19

Conscription

Answer 19

Censorship of the press

Question 20

Propaganda

Answer 20

Spreading ideas to promote a cause or damage an opposing cause

Question 21

Lusitania

Answer 21

Germany uses unrestricted sub Warfare. Sunk 128 Americans (dead)