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EOC SG 3
study for End of Coarse exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| militarism | nations of the world built up their militaries to take over smaller countries |
| alliance system | countries begin to have secret alliances |
| imperialism | countries used big militaries to conquer smaller nations to take their resources |
| nationalism | citizens of smaller countries being controlled begin to fight for their independence; larger countries believed they were stronger than other nations |
| Franz Ferdinand | Austria-Hungary's archduke who was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist; triggered World War I |
| neutrality | U.S. didn't want to enter into foreign wars |
| Sussex Pledge | Germany tells us that they will not sink U.S. ships with their submarines |
| Lusitania & Sussiex | 2 ships that were sunk by Germans |
| U.S. shipping | U.S. supplying Great Britain and with weapons and food more than Germany |
| Zimmerman telegram | Germany offered Mexico land back they lost in the Mexican-American war if they allied with Germany against U.S. |
| U.S. declares war | Germany opens up unrestricted subwarfare; we declare war |
| Schlieffen Plan | Germany's attack plan |
| mechanized warfare | improvements in weapons with 18th and 19th century tactics leads massive casualities |
| weapons used in World War 1 | tanks, poison gas, flamethrowers, biplanes, mustard gas |
| communication during World War 1 | telegraph |
| trench warfare | rats, disease, trench foot, lice |
| African Americans | got jobs in the military |
| Treaty of Versailles | Germany takes blame for the war; Germany pays $33 billion in war reparations; Germany loses land, Poland is created |
| armistice | an agreement to stop fighting |
| Big Four | United States - Wilson; Italy - Orlando; Great Britain - George; France - Clemenceau |
| Espionage Act | jailing anyone who talks out against U.S. war |
| Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points peace plan | peace plan to rebuild Germany |
| reparations | Germany pays $33 billion in war reparations |
| war bonds | government makes bonds for people to buy and get paid back |
| war industries bond | responsible for war productions |
| Eddie Rickenbacker | "Ace of Aces" fighter pilot fought red boron race car driver; 300 missions, 26 wins |
| propaganda | form of yellow journalism; U.S. makes fliers, posters, movies, and songs exaggerating foreign enemies wrong doings |
| war production | had to convert factories to make tanks and battleships instead of cars and cruise ships |
| ration | we had to cut back on food to supply allies armies oversees |
| Alvin York | conscience dojector, preacher, drunk, wild fighter - pinned down with only revolvers; kills 35 Germans and takes 187 prisoners with no bullets |
| George Creel | leader of committee on public information which was responsible for convincing U.S. citizens to support the war |
| Selective Service Act | creates draft to get U.S. soldiers to fight |
| food administration | governmental agency responsible for making sure prices of food didn't go up during the war; taught people how to make victory gardens |
| No man's land | area in between each side's trenches when both sides fight each other |
| convoy system | ships began to travel in groups across the Atlantic Ocean for mutual denfense against submarines; greatly reduced the amount of ships that were sunk by the Germans |
| League of Nations | one of Wilson's 14 points which created an organization where all countries have a membership and get together to argue about issues, rather than going to war |
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