WW1 QUESTIONS🍋

Nationalism

Strong sense of pride and loyalty to ones nation

Imperialsim

Building an overseas empire, source of tension between european powers

Reparations

Payments for war damage

U-boats

German Submarines

Trench Warfare

Defending a position by fighting from the protection of deep ditches

Germany

This country was blamed for the whole war in the Treaty of Versailles

Liberty Bonds

helped the U.S. pay for WWI

Woodrow Wilson

U.S. President during WWI

Militarism

The aggressive strengthening of armed forces

Zimmerman Note

Proposed secret alliances between germany and mexico

Belgium

Germany marches through this county on their way to France

No Man's Land

Empty patch of land between trenches

Lusitania

British passenger line attacked by a U-Boat, 128 Americans killed

agreement or truce leading to the cease-fire

Armistice

Allied Powers

Great Britain, France, Russia, US

Central Powers

Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria

League of Nations (1919)

After the war, Wilson proposed the League in the 14th point of his peace plan. The US voted not to join the League because in doing so, it would have taken away our self-determination, and Congress could not decide whether to go to war or not.

Treaty of Versailles

Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.

The "Big Four"

Italy, France, England, and the U.S. 4 powers who met at Versallies to discuss peace

Committee on Public Information

government organization that produced propaganda to build support for the war

Propaganda

Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause.

New Technologies of WWI

Machine gun, tank, poison gas, and submarine

Battle of Jutland

an indecisive naval battle in World War I (1916)

Battle of Ypres

A World War One battle where poison gas was be used, by the Germans, for the first time. Canadians fought hard to close the gap.

Battle of Verdun

(1916) the longest battle of World War I; it ended in stalemate, with both sides suffering hundreds of thousands of casualties

Gallipoli Campaign

Allied invasion of the Gallipoli Peninsula in the Straits, unprofitable fighting for months, huge casualties but the allies had to withdraw, so a large victory to Turkish forces