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World War 1 Flashcards

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Allied powers 6

A 
Great Britain 
France
Italy 
United States 
Denmark 
Russia
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Wilson’s main focus

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Create League of Nations

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Reasons for stalemate

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  • failed shlieffen plan
  • poor communication
  • tactical and strategic problems
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What were the strategic problems

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Movement on foot

•trenches hard to defeat with WWI weapons

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Barrage

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Extensive artillery fire against enemy positions

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Who were the big 4

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United States
Great Britain
France
Italy

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Significance of America going to peace conference

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First time president traveled out that far

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How many nations involved

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30?

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Propaganda forms

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Posters, speeches and ads

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Propaganda purpose

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Type of message aimed at influencing opinions

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Stalemate definition

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Deadlock

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Victory bonds

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Bonds used to get people to pay the government money

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Draft def

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A random enlistment in war

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U boats def

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German submarines

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Trent warfare def

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Warfare where a side or both sides dig trenches and fight from the fight

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No mans land def

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Dangerous land between trenches

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Zimmerman note

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Telegram from Germany to Mexico, proposing that Mexico attacks America with Germany

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Nationalism def

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Intervening in foreign affairs

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Scheneck vs United States

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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

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War guilt clause

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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

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Defeated nations punished

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  1. Germany admit total blame for starting the war
  2. Germany needed to pay $33 billion and reparations to the allies
  3. Took Germany’s colonies
  4. Took land from Russia
  5. Austria- Hungary broken up
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Central powers

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German
Austria- Hungary
Ottoman Empire

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Lusitania

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Unarmed British oceanliner whose sinking by a German U-boat influence the United States decision to enter World War I

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Sussex pledge

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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

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4 main causes of WWI

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Militarism

Alliances

Imperialism

Nationalism

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