World War 1 Flashcards
Allied powers 6
Great Britain France Italy United States Denmark Russia
Wilson’s main focus
Create League of Nations
Reasons for stalemate
- failed shlieffen plan
- poor communication
- tactical and strategic problems
What were the strategic problems
Movement on foot
•trenches hard to defeat with WWI weapons
Barrage
Extensive artillery fire against enemy positions
Who were the big 4
United States
Great Britain
France
Italy
Significance of America going to peace conference
First time president traveled out that far
How many nations involved
30?
Propaganda forms
Posters, speeches and ads
Propaganda purpose
Type of message aimed at influencing opinions
Stalemate definition
Deadlock
Victory bonds
Bonds used to get people to pay the government money
Draft def
A random enlistment in war
U boats def
German submarines
Trent warfare def
Warfare where a side or both sides dig trenches and fight from the fight
No mans land def
Dangerous land between trenches
Zimmerman note
Telegram from Germany to Mexico, proposing that Mexico attacks America with Germany
Nationalism def
Intervening in foreign affairs
Scheneck vs United States
The 1919 Supreme Court case that declared that Charles Schenck’s propaganda efforts against the military draft or illegal under the espionage act of 1918 and were not protected by his first amendment right to freedom of speech
War guilt clause
Clause that hold Germany responsible for World War I am required to make reparations to the allied nations to pay for losses in damage they suffered during the war
Defeated nations punished
- Germany admit total blame for starting the war
- Germany needed to pay $33 billion and reparations to the allies
- Took Germany’s colonies
- Took land from Russia
- Austria- Hungary broken up
Central powers
German
Austria- Hungary
Ottoman Empire
Lusitania
Unarmed British oceanliner whose sinking by a German U-boat influence the United States decision to enter World War I
Sussex pledge
During World War I, a German promise in 1916 to begin giving advance warning of submarine attacks on oceanliners And to spare the lives of passengers and crew
4 main causes of WWI
Militarism
Alliances
Imperialism
Nationalism