WW1 Double quiz

Patriotism

when love of your own people comes first

Nationalism

when you think your country is the best

Militarism

the belief that you should build up your military and make it big and strong, and that your military is the best

Imperialism

the desire to conquer other places around the world

Alliancism

a team or buddy system

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

• He and his wife were assassinated

• Assassinator is from Serbia; he killed because Serbia was getting bullied by Austria-Hungary

• Assassinated people are from Austria-Hungary

Home by Christmas

Most people thought before the war started that we’re now too smart for war

Propoganda

One-sided information that is trying to sell you something

The Schlieffen plan

• German plan to win WW1

• France for lunch, Russia for dinner

• Didn't work because they got stuck in the mud and blood of the trenches

The Trench Warfare

because of so many trenches, the Germans couldn’t break through

Planes

Fires missiles at other planes and down at other countries

Submarines

Fired torpedoes (underwater missiles) at boats

Poison Gas

Considered uncivilized before WW1

Tank

If you shot at it, the missiles bounced off

Machine Gun

More bullets, further and straighter than the Maxim gun

Big Bertha

Cannon, Fires rockets, straighter and further than ever before

Hot air balloons/ blimps

• Drop bombs from the bottom 

• Scouted

Flamethrowner

Burns people alive

Grenade

• Made of iron

• When it blows up, it blows shrapnel (little pieces of metal) everywhere

•  makes you bleed to death

The Lusitania (1915)

• The Lusitania was the Titanic of World War I

• At least the middle class to ride the boat (a British boat)

• Sailing from new york to england

• Most ppl who died were British

• The bottom of the boat had military supplies for England

• The sinking of the British boat got us closer to war

• 1,000 ppl died out of 2,000

The Zimmerman Note (1917)

• America got into world war 1 very late

• Mr. Zimmerman: a military German official

• Germany sent a secret note to Mexico telling them to bomb America

  • Mexico said no

U.S.A Enters World War I

• The USA finally entered because Germany started sinking our ships

• The US's entry is the final nail in the German coffin

Women in World War I

• Another main theme of the war: accidental feminism 

  • Women started doing men's jobs

The Russian Revolution

• Drops out of the war because they were having a revolution 

• Vladimir Lenin: the George Washington of communism in Russia, a communist

• Changes from an absolute monarchy to being ruled by a communist

• Soviet Union, USSR

• Fam Picture- the absolute monarch leader's family (Czar), all were killed

Woodrow Wilson’s 14 Points

• Who was the American president during World War I: Woodrow Wilson

• He was considered a brainiac

• Creation of an Association of Nations

The League of Nations

• All nations in the world would join it

• They will talk about preventing future wars

• We made it but never joined

The Treaty of the Versailles

• Ends WW1 and brought Germany to its knees

• Signed by Germany on June 28, 1919

• Caused WW2

• All of WW1 is Germany’s fault

• Germany was broke after the war

Dada artists

artists who were nihilistic, believed everything they were told was lie

PTSD (Shell shock)

• People who were so affected by the war will never act the same again

• Millions of people

• Happens because you aren’t used to seeing people being blown to shreds in front of you

• Talk therapy

Europe 1920

New countries are born, and old countries die

The Spanish Flu: 20 Million

• Killed more than WW1

• Attacked everyone