Social Studies World War ONE - FINALS!

world war one was the __________. what happened to lots of people (and where specifically was this most severe)? As a result, what happened to the map of Europe?

war to end all wars. lots died in russia. it changed a lot

reasons for start of ww1?

MAIN!
militarism- building the military up
alliance system!!! european powers formed rival alliances to protect themselves. problem w/ this is that all countries involved could be dragged into trouble
Imperialism
nationalism

the event that started the great war happened in ___. what happened in this???

balkans. austria-hungary had annexed bosnia. lots of bosnians wanted independence and had support from serbia. archduke franz ferdinand from austria was killed while visiting sarajevo - and a group of bosnian nationalists and the black hand were responsible

what happens after all the stuff in the balkans and the death of franz ferdinand?

austria-hhungary invades sebria and russia plans to support serbia (its ally)

germany told russia to back off or else

war tactics in world war one/how did they fight?

trench warfare (really slow, dangerous, not sanitary, lots of sickness)
to break stalemates - use chemical weapons (tear and poisonous gases) and tanks

machine guns made advancing hard

What was the Schleiffen Plan? did it work and how?

german plan to invade and conquer france quickly before going back to fight russia
It did not work bc since germany goes through belgium, britain, and france, germany gets slowed down
russia gets their troops together much faster than expected

What was the battle of verdun?

war in france, super long and blood

2 mil men involved

germans wanted it to be a battle of attrition and bleed the french army
in the end, around the same # of casualties in germany and france

Name both powers involved in WW1 and who they consisted of. (the alliance system)

Allies: Russia, France, UK, US

Central powers: germany, austria-hungary, ottoman empire

what technology did the germans start using to try and stop the british? and what policy did they adopt when using this new technology?

U boats/submarines, unrestricted submarine warfare (uboats attack ships without warning)

why did the US choose to stay neutral at the beginning of WW1?

most americans did not want to get involved in fights that involved europe
american companies saw the war as an opportunity to sell goods to BOTH germany and britain

what basically happened that led the US to eventually join www1 with the Allies?

u boat sank british ship that had americans on it, mad ppl mad
Germany told mexico that if they and us had a war, mexico would get land in the US from germany after they conquered it
US warships started helping the british fight against germany and their u boat stuff

how did the allies benefit from the US joining ww1?

us helped them defend themselves against u boat attacks
US gave france and britain supplies and materials

name of woodrow wilsom’s statement of war goals and what was it saying to do?

the fourteen points basically say to create a union

later in 1918, bulgaria, ottoman empire, and aust-hung did what?

Surrendered

hardships germany had to face near the end of the war

rebellions led to revolts
unstable govt
other countries are mad at them
low morale

What is the deal with Germany before the end of ww1 and their govt?

Germany switches to a republic by civilian leaders (they come out of ww1 with a new govt)

what happened on nov 11, 1918?

war ended bc germany signed an armistice

Treaty of Versailles - what does it say?

heavily blames germany
says they could only have 100,000 soldiers, no tanks, no airforce, no submarines, no battleships
germany had to give up all overseas colonies and they gave up an area to france called alsace-lorraine
germany accepted a clause that basically said that they were responsible for starting the war

Germany’s reaction to the Treaty of Versailles?

thought it was super unfair and losses were too severe and a diktak - dictated peace

germans were promised the treaty was based on the 14 points but it wasn’t
thought the war guilt clause (everything blamed on germany) was unjust

they thought the german economy would be bad and it did end up being bad

end of ww1 effects?

tons died, destruction, germany is blamed and they are resentful