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Unit 9
The Great War
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| This nation left the war in 1917 due to Revolution | Russia |
| line of trench fighting between Germany and France | Western Front |
| This neutral nation was invaded by Germany on Germany's way to attack France | Belgium |
| area between enemy trenches | no man's land |
| money payment by a defeated country for damage done during war | reparations |
| American Expeditionary Force | American troops in WWI under the leadership of BlackJack Pershing |
| Which one of President Wilson's 14 points in his peace plan was most important to him | creation of the League of Nations |
| Whose assassination sparked the beginning of WWI | Archduke Franz Ferdinand |
| future president Herbert Hoover was in charge of what during the Great War | Food Administration - designed to get Americans to conserve food so more was available for troops |
| Famous German General, also the name of a German line of defense in France | Hindenburg |
| The Big Four | US - Wilson, England - George, France - Clemenceau, Italy - Orlando these leaders of the victorious Allied nations met in Paris to write the peace treaty |
| the worldwide epidemic killed 22 million people in 1918 | Spanish Influenza |
| problem soldiers encountered from standing in bacteria filled stagnant water | trenchfoot |
| being driven mad from the constant artillery shelling of WWI | Shell Shock (today known as PTSD) |
| Which battle resulted in the death of a million men and only gained the French and British 5 miles of contested territory | Battle of the Somme |
| This extremely successful military campaign of the Germans was considered a violation of civilized warfare | U-boat |
| 1914-1918 | years of the Great War |
| Central Powers | Germany, Austria Hungary, and other nations aligned during the war |
| Allies | Britain, France, America, and other nations aligned during the war |
| this proposed Mexico should attack the United States | Zimmerman Note |
| liberty bonds | way to finance the war |
| Vladimir Lenin | leader of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia |
| British ship sunk by German Uboat attack in 1914 | Lusitania |
| When did the war end | 11th hour of the 11th day on the 11th month |
| Who was the Czar Nicholas II | Royal leader of Russia who was removed from power and killed |
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