A region in southern Eastern Europe with many ethnic groups called the powder keg of Europe

Archduke franz Ferdinand

Heir to the Austro Hungarian throne whose assasination in 1914 sparked wwI

Bosnian Serb nationalist who assasinated archduke franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo

Emperor of Germany during Wwi who strongly supported militarism and war

Central powers of WWI

Germany, austria Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria, the alliance fighting against the Allies

The nations opposing the central powers, including Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Japan and later the US

A form of fighting where soldiers battled from see defensive trenches

Dangerous open ground between enemy trenches filled with barbed wire, shell craters and mud

Weapons capable of firing hundreds of bullets per minute making attacks extremely deadly

Large cannons that fired explosive she’s and caused most WWI casualties

Sharp metal wire used to block advancing soldiers and slow attacks

Chemical weapons like chlorine and mustard gas that burned lungs and skin

Weapons that shot burning file to clear the enemy trenches

Amores vehicles fist used by Britain in 1916 to cross trenches and break stalemates

A secret German message encouraging Mexico to attack the United States; helped push the us into wwI

British passenger ship sunk by a submarine killing many civilians

The peace treaty that ended ww and punished Germany with reparations territorial losses and military limits

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World war terms

Question	Answer
The balkans	A region in southern Eastern Europe with many ethnic groups called the powder keg of Europe
Archduke franz Ferdinand	Heir to the Austro Hungarian throne whose assasination in 1914 sparked wwI
Gavrilo princip	Bosnian Serb nationalist who assasinated archduke franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo
Kaiser wilhelm II	Emperor of Germany during Wwi who strongly supported militarism and war
Central powers of WWI	Germany, austria Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria, the alliance fighting against the Allies
Allied powers of WWI	The nations opposing the central powers, including Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Japan and later the US
Trench warfare	A form of fighting where soldiers battled from see defensive trenches
No mans land	Dangerous open ground between enemy trenches filled with barbed wire, shell craters and mud
Machine guns	Weapons capable of firing hundreds of bullets per minute making attacks extremely deadly
Artillery	Large cannons that fired explosive she’s and caused most WWI casualties
Barbed wire	Sharp metal wire used to block advancing soldiers and slow attacks
Position gas	Chemical weapons like chlorine and mustard gas that burned lungs and skin
Flamethrowers	Weapons that shot burning file to clear the enemy trenches
Tanks	Amores vehicles fist used by Britain in 1916 to cross trenches and break stalemates
Zimmerman note	A secret German message encouraging Mexico to attack the United States; helped push the us into wwI
Lusitania	British passenger ship sunk by a submarine killing many civilians
Treaty of Versailles	The peace treaty that ended ww and punished Germany with reparations territorial losses and military limits

Created by: cduffner

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