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World War I
Question | Answer |
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A military alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire. | Central Powers |
An international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations. | League of Nations |
In WWI, the region along the German-Russian Border where Russians and Serbs battled Germans, Austrians, and Turks. | Eastern Front |
A conflict in which the participating countries devote all their resources to the war effort. | Total War |
British passenger boat with 128 Americans on board sunk by German U-Boats. It also secretly had ammunition in the hold. | Lusitania |
A coded message sent by Germany to try to get Mexico to attack the US. | Zimmerman Telegram |
What does MAIN stand for? | Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism |
In WWI, the region of northern France where the forces of the Allies and the Central Powers battled each other. | Western Front |
Ideas spread to influence public opinion. | Propaganda |
A form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield. | Trench Warfare |
Metal wire laid to slow enemy forces. | Barbed Wire |
A military alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy in the years preceding World War I | Triple Alliance |
A series of proposals in which U.S. president Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a lasting peace after World War I. | Fourteen Points |
A strategy drawn up by Germany to avoid fighting a war on two fronts but ended up failing. | Schlieffen Plan |
A strip of land between the trenches of opposing armies along the Western Front during WW1. | No Mans Land |