WWI Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
militarism | the aggressive strengthening of armed forces |
mobilize | preparing a country's military for war |
Central Powers | the alliance between Austria-Hungary and Germany during WWI |
Allied Powers | France, Russia, and Britain during WWI |
trench warfare | defending a position by fighting from the protection of deep ditches |
stalemate | a situation in which neither side can win a decisive victory |
U-boats | submarines that launched torpedoes against Allied supply ships, causing heavy loss. |
Lusitania | a British passenger liner, sunk by a German U-boat in 1915. About 1,200 people were killed, including 128 Americans. |
Zimmerman Note | This secret telegram to Mexico sent by the German foreign minister, Arthur Zimmerman, was decoded and then published by American newspapers in March 1917. |
Selective Service Act | in 1917, this act required men between the ages of 21 and 30 to register to be drafted. |
Liberty Bonds | the sale of these war bonds provided billions of dollars in loans to the Allies. |
American Expeditionary Force | French and British generals called for immediate help on the front lines and wanted U.S. troops to join French and British units. |
Communists | people who favor the equal distribution of wealth and the end of all forms of private property. |
League of Nations | an international assembly of nations that was the final of Wilson's fourteen points |
Treaty of Versailles | the peace settlement of WWI which made Germany pay reparations for war damage. |
Liberty Bonds | these were issued by the U.S. government to support the Allies |
Allies | U.S., France, Britain, and Italy signed the Treaty of Versailles |
new strategy | trench warfare was fighting in deep ditches during WWI |
Nobel Peace Prize | won by Woodrow Wilson for his role of forming the League of Nations |
Militarism | aggressive strengthening of armed forces |
Germany | last nation to surrender to Allied Forces in 1918 |
Selective Service Act | passed in 1917 and required men between the ages of 21-30 to register to be drafted |
convoy system | helped the Allies by allowing destroyers to escort and protect groups of Allied merchant ships. |
American soldiers | the Allies were near defeat when the American soldiers arrived in Europe in 1917 |
influenza | a disease that was deadly because it spread through the air in 1918 |
three million | The Central Powers had almost this many casualties during WWI |
women | more that a million of this group of workers were hired by factories during WWI |
spark that ignited WWI | killing of Austria-Hungary's Archduke Francis-Ferdinand |
stalemate | in 1916 this happened in WWI |
postwar peace | Wilson's 14 points area a list of proposals for this |
Nationalism | one of the causes of tensinon in Europe in the early 1900s |
American Expeditionary Force | U.S. troops fighting in Europe during WWI. |
telegram | the Zimmermann Note is a secret _________ |
Russian peace treaty | the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a _____ _____ _____ with the Central Powers. |
Lusitania | a British passenger ship attacked by German U-boats; several civilians were killed, including 128 Americans |
submarines | U-boats (or untesee boats) are German ________ |
Armistice | truce that ended active warfare and paved the way for a peace treaty |
Veteran's Day | After WWI, Armistice Day became known as ________ Day. (always on November 11th) |
Republican | Henry Cabot Lodge was a _____________leader |
Bolsheviks | afftected Russia's involvement in WWI by overthrouwing the czar and sparking a civil war. This led Russia to withdrawing from the war. |
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