WW1

Question 1

Militarism

Answer 1

• the idea that the government should have a strong military and be prepared to use it aggressively to spread ideas.

Question 2

Alliances - a union between countries for mutual benefit.

Question 3

Nationalism - being proud of your country.

Question 4

Imperialism - The policy of a stronger country taking over a weaker country for its own benefit.

Question 5

Assassination of Franz Ferdinand - Duke of Austria-Hungary was assassinated and Austria-Hungary went to war with the country the assassin was from (Serbia) which eventually caused WWI.

Question 6

Central Powers (Triple Alliance) - Germany and Austria-Hungary. Later the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria.

Question 7

Allied Powers (Triple Entente) - France

Answer 7

Britain

Question 8

Neutral - not helping either side in a conflict.

Question 9

Submarine Warfare - Used submarines to sneak up on ships and sink them with torpedoes.

Question 10

Trench Warfare - A type of fighting where both sides build deep trenches as a defense against the enemy.

Question 11

Woodrow WIlson - President of the US during the war.

Question 12

Neutrality - Being neutral.

Question 13

Lusitania - Ship that got sunk by Germany. Americans mad because Americans died on the ship.

Question 14

Zimmerman Telegram - Germany tried to get Mexico to secretly be allies with them. British Intelligence found out about it.

Question 15

Sussex Pledge - Germany would search ships before sinking them.

Question 16

Role of women - worked in factories

Answer 16

nurses

Question 17

Liberty Bond - sold to support war. More money promised to be paid back later to those who bought Liberty Bonds.

Question 18

Propaganda - misleading information

Question 19

War Industries Board - Government Agency that helped the U.S. economy shift from consumer goods to war goods.

Question 20

Rationing - to allow people to have a certain amount of a good.

Question 21

Results of the War

Question 22

Armistice - an agreement made by both sides to stop fighting.

Question 23

League of Nations - Union of Nations whose goal was to keep the peace.

Question 24

Treaty of Versailles - Germany has to take all blame for the war. $33 billion in reparations (cost of war). Germany military limited- 100

Answer 24

0. Alsace-Lorraine returned to France.

Question 25

Fourteen Points - President Wilson’s peace plan.

Question 26

Big Four - Woodrow Wilson- U.S. David Lloyd George- Britain. Georges Clemenceau- France. Vittorio Orlando- Italy.

Question 27

Reparations - Compensation.