World War 1 Notes Flashcards
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Which of the four cause of World War I is the main reason behind World War I -
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Nationalism
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Four causes of World War I
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Nationalism
Imperalism
Militarism
Alliance system
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Nationalism -
Nations want to be ___________.
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Independent
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True or false -
Nationalism creates rivalry between other nations.
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True
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“Building empires” : building up nations territory. Most lands are already taken though.
What four causes is this one?
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Imperalism
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Building up of arm forces, aggressively in preparation of war-
What four causes?
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Militarism
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Which of the four causes of World War I was meant to help a nation maintain security -
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Alliance system
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Someone who always has your back, and gets you out of things -
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Allies
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True or false:
In Europe there is competition instead of cooperation.
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True
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Triple Entente (aka allied powers)
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France Great Britian Russia AND Serbia Later (Italy, Japan and US)
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Who was apart of the Tripple alliance -
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Germany
Austria Hungary
Italy
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Who was apart of the central powers
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Germany
Austria Hungary
And ottoman empire(turkey)
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The Balkan Pennisula is the _________________ of Europe.
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Powdered keg
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Serbia wants _____________, while Austria-Hungary wants ______
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Independence ; Serbia
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What is the spark that ignited the powdered of the keg Europe -
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The assassination of the archduke and his a wife
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Who assassinated the archduke and his wife?
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Serbia
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Why did Serbia assassinate the archduke -
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Because they wanted independence
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Austria Hungary declares war on ____________
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Serbia
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Who backs up Serbia once Austria Hungary declares war?
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Russia
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Then Russia declares war on ________________
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Austria Hungary
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Who then backs up Austria Hungary once Russia declares war on them?
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Germany
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Then both Germany and Austria Hungary (they are now allies) declare war on who??
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France
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Meanwhile Belgium is neutral but then gets clobbered by who?
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Germany
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So then Great Britain declares war on _________ on behalf of Belgium -
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Germany
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Meanwhile US stays __________
Neutral
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Why do you think nationalism led to competition in Europe ?
- everyone wanted independce and not to be taken over
- unique cultural identity
- rivalries developed over colonies and trade ; self interest
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What is the blank check from Germany -
That they will have their back no matter what
| And will do whatever they want and whatever they nee
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Three P's or propaganda -
Persuade, promote, publicize
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WWI propaganda influences peoples __________
Opinions
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Who is the "bully" of Europe -
Germany
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True or false:
Propagandas were mostly real.
False
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Two fronts :
Eastern front
| Western front
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At the western front, Germany invades who?
Belgium
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The schlieffen plan -
Supposed to be quick ; troops thought they'd be home for Christmas :/
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Germany wants to damage ______ and _______
France and Russia
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Trench warfare took place at what front ?
Western front
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Which front -
Western Europe (France, Belgium)
Stalemates
Huge loss of life
Western front
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What front ?
Eastern Europe
Mobility
Equally huge loss of life
Eastern front
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Who is defeated and has to surrender to Germany ?
Russia
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Italy switches sides !!!!! To what side ?
Allied
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New kind of war -
Trench and air warfare
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True or false :
There were NO diseases in the trenches
False
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They were miles long ; like an underground maze ; elaborate defense system
The trenches
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Trench warfare leads to the war of _______-_
War of attrition
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If you walked into no mans land, would you survive or die?
Probably die
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To wear down the other side with heavy attacks -
War of attrition
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New advances and medicine were created on how to treat ___________
Infections
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New kind of war in the air -
Air warfare
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They were filled with nitrogen gas, very flammable, and caused explosions
Zepplins
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He was the US flying ace!
Eddie rickenbacker
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He repeadelty fought the Red Baron -
Eddie rickenbacker
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Modern warfare - (new advances and tech)
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Tanks
Air plan
Hand grenades
Machine guns
Gas masks
Flame throwers
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Hazards of war -
True or false -
New tech led to new (horrible) casualities
True
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Trench warfare contributed to :
Disease
Shell shock
Trench foot
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Stalemates lead to need for ________ and _________
Reorganizing and reinforcements
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Both sides (allied and central) wanted to add more _________
Allies
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So now more countries start getting ___________
Involved
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T or f
US is still neutral, but not for long
True
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Why does the US enter the war?
Germany provocation
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What was the Lusitinia
Ship sunk by Germany
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Germany started using _________, sinking US ships
Submarines
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Who is elected president -
Wilson
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America is now mad at ________ for sinking their ships
Germany
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Zimmerman note -
A telegram sent from Germany to Mexico trying to create a secrete alliance
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The Zimmerman note mad who RLLY mad -
US
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US finally gets involved but what side?
Allies
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Why does US side with Allies
Because of their stronger relationship
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Impact of total war -
Complete mobilization of people and resources
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True or false
The total war didn't affect anyone.
FALSE it affected everyone
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What are the two faces of war:
Soldiers and civilians
War on battlefield
War on the home front
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Everyone had to do their ____----
Part
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Women started working where?
In factories
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Children had to do what enable to do their own part ??
Eat every thing off their plate, not wasting anything
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Patriotism _______!!
Grew
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Government powers _________, as an impact of total war
Increased
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Almost everyone country used the _________
Draft
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But people started going against the draft. Who were these people called?
Conscientious objectors
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Government started rationing _____
Food
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Patriotism began to dwindle ; opposition of war ______
Rose
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People began to question the ___---
War
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Then people start to oppose the war ___________
Verbally
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Governments had to maintain support, so they created-
Forces(arrests, police) made laws(limited freedom)
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DORA and espionage and sedition act -
A law that punishes people for speaking out against the war
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It is The government controlling what can be published -
Censorship
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What was used to manipulate other nations?
Propaganda
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US stopped teaching ____________ languages and would not use any _________
German ; German
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Who wanted nothing to do with Germany ?
US
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True or false
Total war caused a huge impact on population!
True
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Worldwide flu epidemic created a massive dent in the ______
Population
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Social changes -
New role for women
Suffrage (women can now vote)
Inequalities still existed
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How did propaganda influence the war?
Promoted patriotism
Rationing saving food for soldiers
Promoted negative images of the enemy
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How did the western front differ from the eastern front
Western - filled with trench warfare, no mobility, created stalemate, people died, didn't gain land
Eastern - mobility, and more moving around
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How did itallys alliance change
They changes from central to allied
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What made WWI more devastating than any other war?
New tech to kill lots of people, flu, a total war so it affected everyone
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Why was Germany called the bully of Europe ?
They were being very aggressive, building up militarism, stormed through Belgium and destroyed it, went on a rampage
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Hat are the reasons for American neutrality ?
We traded with both sides, wasn't affect us, and it was far away
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Why did the US finally enter the war ?
Because Germany tries to become allies with Mexico
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Background to revolution -
Russia was ____________ in military and technology
Unprepared
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Why did Russia get involved in war?
Because they backed up Serbia
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True or false
| Russia lacked industry to produce materials.
True
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Did Russia have good military leaders
No
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Russian industry was unable to produce what for the army ?
Weapons
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Russia was going up against the strongest army _____
Germany
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Russian army suffered an incredible _______
Loss
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Who was soon assainated ?
Rasputin
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What made the cause of the women revolting ?
He price of bread skyrocketed
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Russia people were _________
Starving
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Who was soon forced to step down?
The czar
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A provisional government -
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Created by middle class
Hoping to help give people food again
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They decided to stay in WWI which was a _________ decision
Terrible
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The lower working class and soldiers -
Soviets
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Who kept challenging the governments authority -
THe soviets
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they were under Lenin's direction ; they part of the soviets ; super radical -
Bolsheviks
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what do the Bolsheviks believe?
that the lower class should uprise & revolt against the upper class
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The Bolsheviks want to do what?
overthrow the Governement
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they promised people peace, land, and to get out of war -
the Bolsheviks
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the power of the Bolsheviks soon increases & then what do they do?
they overthrow the governement
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Then they rrename themselves to what -
the communists
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who kills the whole royal family?
the communists
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How did Russia get out of WWI -
they signed a treaty to surrendor
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Affects of the treaty -
they had to give up land to germany
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Then Russia soon sank into what?
Civil War
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Why did the Civil war occur?
because not everyone agreed with the Bolsheviks
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Who was the fighting between?
communists & anticommunists
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who was the red army
communists
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who was the white army
anticommunists
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Who won the civil war?
the communists, or red army
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Russia was who's allies?
Serbias
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who was a victim of the civil war?
the royal family
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The _________ was a well disciplined fighting force-
the red army
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political differnces caused problems for which side>
the white army
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who were in total control of Russia?
the communists
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Russia was soon transformed into a ___________________
centralized state
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Russia leaves the allies, while they're ....
struggeling
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who are the first to surrendor after Russia is out of the picture?
austria-hungary
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the central powers now start to .....
fall
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Germany takes one last stabb, but are they successful?
nope, they collapse
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Germany signs the armistice on the....
11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month
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when the allied nations met in Paris, also known as ...
the Paris Peace Conference
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the war began as an ___________ fight but then ended as an _________________ fight.
imperalist ; ideological
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Who wanted ever lasting peace & had a peace proposal?
US president Wilson
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"fourteen points" -
the speech to congress before the war ended
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the speech called for many ___________
changes
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what was the goal of the speech -
to create everlasting peace
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WWI was supposed to be the war, to ___________
end all wars
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Main point of Wilson's 14 points -
"self determination"
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it was an organization to ensure security and peace-
league of nations
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congress didn't like the league of nations so what did they do?
they shut it down
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Why did they shut it down?
cause they though it would drag the country into future wars
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at the paris peace conference, only who were represented?
the winners (aka the allied)
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Wilson wanted everlasting peace, who rejected wilsons idea?
the allies
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what was the final peace settlement -
the treaty of Versailles
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Who had the harshest penalties out of all five of the defeateed nations?
Germany
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What did wilson fear?
that Germany would never forget this humiliation
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Three parts of the treaty of Versailles that was requried for Germany -
1. pay reparations
2. Germany losses territory
3. Germany losses their military
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Who takes all the guilt/blame?
Germany
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T or F -
WWI changed lives forever.
True
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total war led to limited ______________________________
personal freedoms
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after the war, who is no longer a country on the map?
Autria-hungary
