World War I Flashcards
When did World War I (WWI) start in Europe?
1914
When did Woodrow Wilson declare war on Germany, thus entering the US into WWI?
1917
When was the armistice signed that ended fighting in WWI?
November 11, 1918
The name of the treaty that ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. (June 28, 1919)
The Treaty of Versailles
What slogan helped reelect Woodrow Wilson in 1916?
“He kept us out of war.”
Name of the huge British ship sunk by a German submarine that instigated a change in US public opinion about entering WWI by Americans. More than 1,200 people died. Over 100 were Americans.
RMS Lusitania
Explain how a new strategy adopted by Allied Ships at sea led to a new strategy adopted by Germany, that led to the escalation of war in the Atlantic.
Previous strategy was for a submarine to surface and send a waring shot over the bow of the ship about to be sunk. The Germans waited 10 minutes so that crew could abandon ship. Then they sunk the boat. The Allies armed their merchant vessels with artillery and shot the submarine. So Germans stopped warning vessels. The RMS Lusitania was one of the first victims of this change in strategy.
What countries made up the Grand Alliance?
Britain
France
Italy
Russia
What countries was the Grand Alliance fighting?
Germany
Turkey
Austria-Hungary
What military disadvantage did Germany have?
They had to fight on two fronts: Britain/France in the west and Russia in the east.
Great general in WWI
General Pershing
Conscientious Objectors were not recognized during WWI. Members of several religious groups were imprisoned because their religion opposed war as unjustifiable. Name two religions. Also name a prominent person who was a pacifist, though he was not imprisoned like many in these peace churches. Who was he?
Peace religions: Quakers and Mennonites
Person: Andrew Carnegie
Why did US Bankers support entering WWI on the side of the Allies?
England was going broke and needed loans from the US to obtain food and military equipment. If the US didn’t loan to them, then US markets couldn’t sell to them and the US would lose an essential customer causing the economy to go into a recession.
Russia suffered the most fatalities during WWI. (5M) The people of Russia badly wanted out of the war. When the US entered the war, a Russian revolution occurred. A treaty was signed giving great parts of Russia to Germany and ending the war for Russia. However two factions in Russian were fighting for the control of Russia. Who were they?
Bolsheviks (communists)–who won
The White Russians–backed by the US. They supported the czar
What was the Second International?
A group of Socialists composed of two parts:
- the Marxists who believed a revolution should be fought to overthrow capitalism.
- the Socialist who believed that parliamentary procedures could weaken capitalism and lead to its end