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WWI 9th grade
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alliance | a formal agreement or treaty between two or more nations to cooperate for specific purposes |
| The Great Powers | Britain, France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia |
| Imperialism | Cause of competition/tension between the Great Powers |
| Shifting of Alliances | Germany tried to isolate France to avoid a two front conflict |
| Competing for Influence in the Balkans | Russia and Austria-Hungary |
| After Germany let it's friendship fade with Russia, Russia formed an alliance with this country | France |
| A naval arms race began between Germany and Great Britain and Great Britain was ahead because | They were a much richer country at the time |
| Also known as the Triple Entente (an alliance signed in 1904) | Allied Powers |
| Austrian Archduke that was assassinated by the Black Hand-a Serbian nationalist group | Franz Ferdinand |
| Germany responded to the demands that Austria presented to Serbia with a "blank check" and declared that they would support this country fully | Austria |
| Russia reacts to Austria's ultimatum on Serbia by supporting this country and mobilizing their forces along the Russian border | Serbia.."Slavic Brothers" |
| After Czar Nicholas II of Russia refuses to stand down and remove its troops from the Russian boarder, Germany does this | Declares war on Russia |
| Because France tells Germany that they will react according to their best interests, Germany develops the Von Schlieffen Plan. What is this plan? | Germany would quickly strike at France through Belgium, knock France out and then turn and fight Russia. |
| What caused France to enter the war? | Germany declared war on France |
| Why did Germany fear France's involvement in the war? | Germany was afraid of fighting a war on two fronts (West-France and East-Russia) |
| Germany marches through this country without permission on its way to attack France | Belgium |
| Why did Britain declare war on Germany? | Great Britain had a treaty with Belgium stating that if Belgium was attacked, Britain would come to its aid. |
| Central Powers | Italy, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire, Germany |
| Allied Powers | France, Russia and Great Britain |
| What changed everything during WWI? | The machine gun |
| Battle of the Marne | Great Britain and France were able to fight to Germany to a stalemate in September 1914 |
| Trench warfare | the digging of parallel trenches from the North Sea to Switzerland, from which the opposing armies would live and fight |
| The space in between the trenches | "no man's land" |
| Machine Gun | could fire enough ammunition to equal a while unit of riflemen. |
| Poison Gas | First used by Germans but later by both sides and caused choking, blindness and/or death |
| Tanks | armored vehicles introduced by the British and used to cross "no man's land" as well as clear barbed/razor wire |
| Concertina Wire | Razor thin wire that is very difficult to see |
| Airplanes | Useful for scouting and bombing (usually with hand dropped bombs) |
| The Red Baron | airplane used in warfare |
| Submarines | Underwater boats (u-boats) first used by Germans |
| More mobility on the ___________ front | Eastern |
| On March 15, 1917, how did Russia exit the war? | Signed a treaty with Germany |
| Unrestricted Submarine Warfare (USW) | Germany declared that all shipping entering the warzone was subject to being fired upon without warning |
| Lusitania | A passenger liner that was sank by Germany killing 1,000 people including 120 Americans |
| What country forces the US to enter the war? | Germany |
| Germany violated the Sussex Pledge. What is that? | German promise not to sink merchant ships without warning |
| Zimmerman Note | German promise to give Mexico Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico in return for assistance against the US |
| Who declared war on Germany? | Woodrow Wilson |
| Selective Service Act | US declares that all men between 18-45 are eligible for draft |
| Germany tried to win the war with one last attack on _______________ | France/Paris |
| armistice | agreement to halt fighting |
| WWI was also called | The Great War |
| The failure of the peace process after WWI laid the ground work for | WWII |
| The Fourteen Points | Woodrow Wilson's personal blueprint for peace |
| The final treaty of WWI | The Treaty of Versailles |
| The Big Four: only countries that had any real power in drafting the final treaty | USA, France, Great Britain and Italy |
| The treaty of Versailles was focused on revenge and __________________ | punished Germany |
| The Ottoman Empire was disbanded with only this country remaining independent while the rest of the empire was split up between France and Great Britain | Turkey |
| Austria Hungary was split into _____ countries | 2 |
| Disarmament | Germany reduced to 100,000 man army, coast guard only and no technological weapons |
| reparations | Germany was required to pay the massive war debt |
| war guilt clause | Germany was forced to sign something in the final treaty stating it was the sole cause of WWI |
| League of Nations | where all countries could come together on a permanent basis to avoid future conflict |
| Non-members of the League of Nations | Germany, Austria, Russia and the USA |
| annex | to incorporate (territory) into the domain of a city, country, or state |
| neutrality | the policy or status of a nation that does not participate in a war between other nations |
| shellshock | battle fatigue |
| Battle of Verdun | a battle in World War I (1916); in some of the bloodiest fighting in World War I the German offensive was stopped |
| Battle of Somme | The Allies, British and France won this battle |
| Battle of Amiens | the opening phase of the Allied offensive later known as the Hundred Days Offensive that ultimately led to the end of the First World War |
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