WW1 Test 🔥🥵👑💀😈💣❤️🔥 Flashcards
Safe for Democracy
Congress declares war April 1917
American soldiers
Doughboys
Selective service act
Males age 21-30 required to register for military
3 million drafted
2 million volunteered
Alvin York (5 things)
US WW1 war hero
Pocifist
Used turkey hunting skills
Captured Germans
silenced machine guns
John Pershing
USA General head of the AEF American exploding force
Convoy system
Safety numbers
Teams of destroyers escorted by merchant ships across Atlantic

Russian revolution
Bulshvicks-communists
Red-Lenin
White republicans
-tsar Nicklace murdered
Autocratic
Government ruled by one individual with unlimited power
Antiwar propaganda
I didn’t raise my boy to be a soldier
Pro war propaganda
Over there
Four reasons America entered the war
- German U-boats/ unrestricted sub warfare
- Sinking of the Lusitania
- Sussex
- Zimmerman note
German U-boats
Submarines
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Attack without warning
The Lusitania
British ship New York to England
People were warned about getting on it
Torpedoed by German U-boat
128 Americans dead-Wilson still neutral
Sussex
Friendship torpedoed by Germans
Why did the Germans agree to the Sussex pledge
Because they did not want the US to enter the war
What was the Sussex pledge
- Passenger ships will not be targeted
2.Unarmed merchant ships will not be targeted
3.merchant ships will be searched before sinking
4.crews/passengers will be removed before sinking
Election of 1916
Democratic—> Wilson
Republican—> Hughs
Wilson won
Fierce dem since Jackson to get consecutive terms
What was Wilson’s campaign slogan
He kept us out of war
Zimmerman note
Telegram intercepted by the British
From the Germans to Mexico
The Germans were saying that if Mexico entered the war the Germans would help them get their land that they lost to America
The western front
The German army cross the Belgian border in 1914
The Germans lost a battle so they began digging trenches
The British and the French did the same thing
Mainly in Belgium whic is between Germany and France 
The eastern front
The line of fighting on the eastern side of Europe between Russia and Germany and Austria hungry
Fighting began on the eastern front when Russia invaded east Prussia in August 1914
Germany immediately launched a counter offensive and pushed Russia back
This pattern of attack and counterattack continue for the first two years of the war
Italian front
The fighting that took place along the border between Italy and Austria
Between 1915 1917 there were 12 bottles fat along the river just inside the Austrian border
Gallipoli
The Gallipoli peninsula is located in the south of Turkey
the allied commanders decided to attack Germany they attacking their ally Turkey
allied soldiers mainly from Australia and New Zealand were sent to the peninsula
the entire mission was a failure the allies lost more than 50,000 men
The war at sea
Even before the war Germany and Britain we’re involved in naval race
Germany knew that they were on likely to win a neighbor organs Britain so they avoided Naval contact
Brittons Main naval tactic was to keep German ships in German ports into two blocks supplies from reaching Germany
Germany’s mean naval tactics was supposed U-boats in the Atlantic Ocean and destroy ships taking supplies from America and other countries to Britain
Why is it called the war to end all wars?
Because of the great destruction and slaughter it caused
What does the m in Mania/have to do with war
Militarism, countries were building up their militaries which intimated other countries
What do the as in Mania/have to do with war
Alliances- Austria Hungary declared war on Serbia so everyone had to join in
Assassination- the arch duke of austria Hungary Fran ferdanzes and his wife were killed in sarajavo by a member of the black hand
What does the n in Mania/have to do with war
Nationalism- ethinetic groups wanted their independence and countries took pride in their nations
What does the i in Mania/have to do with war
Imperialism-countries wanted more land
Bolt action riffle (3 things)
Could shoot 15 rounds in a minute
Introduced by the British
Rusted quickly
Machine gun (3 things)
4-6 men to work one gun
Not portable
Jammed a lot by overheat—>cool down with urine
Mobilizing nation
Gathering of resources and to prep for the war

Propaganda
To influence another’s thoughts
How did America pay for the war
Taxes and bonds
What is the liberty bond
Money loan to the government

Food Administrations
-Herbert Hoover
-encouraged farmers to produce more stuff
-eat less (rationing voluntarily)
War industry board
Convert factories to war materials
Espionage act
Stiff penalties for spying
Sabotage and sedation act
Made it a crime to say, print, or write almost anything perceived as negative about the government
Persecution of Germans
Germans were fired from their jobs
America hated the Germans so much they got rid of German shepherds 🐶
Six things women could do in WW1
Factories, victory gardens, teachers, nurses, clerks, make socks
The great migration
African-Americans moved from the south to the north looking for jobs
Four ways AAs were discriminated in war
Not allowed in Marines
Only low jobs in navy
Segregated navy positions
>350,000 served by wars end (mostly in France)
Harlem hell fighters
369th regiment
Never lost land in 191 days of duty
France gave them Croix de guerre (highest war honor)
Armistice 
Cease fire
November 11th 11:00 Germany asks for peace
Promises that Germany made if the war would end
Not to renew hostilities
Must leave France and Britain
Wilson to deal with civilian leaders (not military )
14 point policy
Free trade
freedom of the seas
national self determination
reduction of arms
no secret agreement/treaties
league of nations( pledge to protect)
the rest deal with boundaries changes
Name four new nation
Poland
Finland 
Yugoslavia
Czechslovakia
League of Nations
In Switzerland, neutral country
USA does not join
When and what must Germany do in the treaty of Versallies
June 28th 1919
-accept full responsibility for war (war guilt clause)
-pay millions in reparations to allies
-give up overseas colonies
-give up territories in Europe
-join league of nations
Henry Cabot Lodge
Says league of Nations threatens US policy of isolationism
4 treaty weaknesses
Humiliated Germany by making them admit sole responsibility of the war
Germany was stripped from Pacific colonies making it hard for them financially
Ignored claims of colonized people for self-determination
Germany and Russia were excluded from the peace conference

Chlorine gas (3 things)
-introduced by Germans
Death is suffocation + burning sensation
Weather must be right
Mustard gas (3 things)
Germany introduced
Colorless and odorless and takes 12 hours to go in effect
blistering skin, vomiting, sore eyes, external bleeding
Zeppelin (3 things)
Introduced by Germans
Massive target
Used to drop bombs
Tanks (4 things)
Introduced by British
First one called little willie
Slow and not modern
Used for first time in WW1
Balkan crisis
Different ethnic groups wanted independence
Bosnians protested
Blank check
No matter what you would support them
Why did the British keep the Zimmerman telegram for a while
They wanted to make sure it was authentic
Planes (3 things)
Used for first time one WW1
Dogfights happened
Mounted machine gun on the bow
Torpedos (3 things)
Came out of bottom of boats
Super important
Blows up boats
Centeral powers
Germany Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire
Allied powers
Brittian
Russia
France
Japan
Italy
Red barons name
Eddie Ridenbacker 
Flame thrower (4 things)
First used by Germans
Worn like a backpack and have a gun sticking out of it (looks like ghostbusters)
Could take out trenches in moments
If it is shot in the back it could blow up
Erich Ludendorff
German general
Self determination
Right to choose your own gov
Brest Litovsk
Said russia was leaving the war
Schenck vs US
Person selling anti war pamphlets
Was arrested
The court ruling was amendments can be taken during war
Willem the second
Kaiser of Germany
Von Schieeflin plan
To Germany to attack France and go through Belgium
Battle of the Mare
Germany was prevented from taking paris
Who were the big four
Woodrow Wilson- USA
David lyold George-brittian
George clemencasu-france
victorio Orlando-italy
What did each country of the big four want
USA- 14 point policy
France- Germany to pay!!! Harshness!!!!! Revenge!!!!!
Brittian- Germany to pay but not too harsh
Italy-take over territories with large Italian minorities
