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WWI Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A prewar alliance that united Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy | Triple Alliance |
| A prewar alliance between Russia, France, and Britain, | Triple Entente |
| Term for war alliance of Germany and Austria-Hungary in WW1. | Central Powers |
| Term for alliance of Great Britain, France, Russia, and Serbia, in WW1. | Allied Powers |
| When a larger more powerful nation takes over a smaller, weaker nation through social, political, or economic means. | Imperialism |
| Pride and Loyalty to one’s nation. | Nationalism |
| Archduke of Austria-Hungary whose assassination led to WW1. | Franz Ferdinand |
| Young Serbian who assassinated Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie | Gavrilo Princip |
| City in Bosnia, site of the assassination of Franz Ferdinand | Sarajevo |
| A German military plan, Germany should first attack France before attacking Russia. The goal was to prevent fighting a two-fronted war. | Schlieffen Plan |
| Taking no side in a conflict | Neutral |
| War fought from dug out fortified ditches | Trench Warfare |
| Series of trenches dug by both the Allied Powers and Central Powers in northern France, resulting in a deadlock | Western Front |
| Information designed to influence people’s opinions | Propaganda |
| War that requires use of all of society’s resources | Total War |
| Allied effort to destroy the Central Powers’ guns and forts that lined the Dardanelles | Battle of Gallipoli |
| The deliberate destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group | Genocide |
| German submarines that threatened ships in the waters around Great Briain | U-Boats |
| German diplomat’s secret message to Mexico urging an attack on the United States | Zimmerman Note |
| A Truce | Armistice |
| Woodrow Wilson’s plan for world peace, proposed in 1918 | Fourteen Points |
| Treaty that ended World War I and punished Germany Severely | Treaty of Versailles |
| Organization of nations created with the hope of ending future wars | League of Nations |
| Statement issued by Britain in 1917 favoring the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine | Balfour Declaration |
| Secret/terrorist organisation formed in 1911 to 'promote' the cause of a greater Serbia. the Black Hand had close links to the Serbian government and trained Gavrilo Princip, killer of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. | Black Hand |
| The phrase was coined by General Falkenhayn as the stated aim of the Battle of Verdun. The goal of the Germans in this battle was to kill as many Frenchmen as possible in an effort to get them to surrender. | “Bleed France White” |
| United States President during WW1 | Woodrow Wilson |
| French Prime Minister during WW1 | George Clemenceau |
| British Prime Minister 1916-21 | David Lloyd George |
| Prime Minister of Italy 1917-1919 | Vittorio Orlando |
| He was overthrown in the Russian Revolution | Nicholas II |
| September, 1914, marked the failure of the Schlieffen Plan. A second battle, fought there in 1918, ended in Allied victory. | 1 st and 2 nd Batle of Marne |
| Deadliest battles of the war In 1916. Germany, hoping to wear France down and inflict. | Battle of Verdun |
| A virus that broke out in 1918. It is estimated that it killed more people than were actually lost throughout four years of fighting. | Influenza of 1918 |
| Refers to the payments and transfers of property and equipment that Germany was forced to make under the Treaty of Versailles | Reparations |
| The barren territory that lay between the opposing Allied and German trenches on the Western Front | “No Man’s Land" |
| Large numbers of casualties, assaulted the fortified town of Verdun, which blocked the German forces’ path to Paris. The battle ended without a clear victor, despite the deaths of more than 650,000 soldiers. | Battle of Verdun |
| Part of the Treaty of Versailles, It forced Germany to say that they alone caused World War 1 - and that it was therefore right and proper that they had to pay reparations. | War Guilt Clause |
| British passenger ship that was sunk by a German U-boat in 1915. | Lusitania |
| Term given to the act of climbing out of a trench and going forward into battle | Over the Top |
| Term used to describe the deadlock on the Western Front during the First World War | Stalemate |
| One of the clauses of Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points. National groups in Europe should, wherever possible, be given their independence | Self Determination |
| The four most influential people in drafting the Treaty of Versailles: Wilson, Clemenceau, George, and Orlando | The Big Four |
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