WWI
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- kaiser wilhelm LL
- ruler of germany
- explain arms race
- military's building up
- gavrilo princip
- member of black hand from serbia who assassinated archduke ferdinand
- 14 point plan
- eliminated 4 underlying causes of war; ended the war
- armistice
- cease fire
- herbert hoover
- president during WWII
- david lloyd george
- member of bif four from great britain
- war labor board
- settle disputes between workers and bosses; set wages; no strikes
- vittorio orlando
- member of big four from italy
- what problems did zepplins have
- hard to control in harsh weather, very slow, easy to shoot down
- what was the immediate cause of WWI
- assassination of archduke
- explain the war guilt clause
- germany is officially blamed for WWI
- list the members of the allies
- great britain, france, russia, italy, (united states, japan)
- charlie chaplin
- enforce liberty bonds
- big four
- group that met at versailles; italy, great britain, france, usa
- bernard baruch
- war industry board tells companies what to produce
- why did the sinking of the lusitania upset americans
- 128 american passangers died
- eddie rickenbacker
- pilot for USA; "Ace" in WWI; got many metals
- zimmermann note
- instructed the minister to urge mexico to attach the united states if the united states declared war on germany
- explain alliances
- countries back each other up
- sussex pledge
- promise not to sing passenger ships without a proper warning; german promise
- what was the importance of the battle of the marne
- beginning of trench warfare; 1st time germans were stopped and then germans dug in
- liberty bonds
- bonds that american citizens used that were lending money to the government to pay for the war
- reparations
- payments from a defeated nation to a victorious nation to pay for losses suffered during the war; (payment for war debt)
- list the member of the central powers
- germany, austria-hungary, bulgaria, ottoman empire (aka turkey)
- woodrow wilson
- president of the usa; peacemaker
- hogn pershing
- general; became U.S. army chief of staff
- explain imperialism
- expanding- fighting over land
- ferdinand foch
- french soldier, military theorist, writer; general in french army
- manfred von richtofen
- german fighter pilot; "red barren"
- bolshevik revolution
- people of russia overthrow russian government with czar nicholas
- what is the strategy of trench warfare
- 1. each side takes a defensive position 2. each side is preceded by an artillery attack 3. during the attack, soldiers crossed "no man's land" and attacked the trench 4. attacks were usually followed by a counter attack
- treaty of versailles
- bigned by big four; treaty; getting revenge on germany
- war industries board
- U.S. government agency under bernard baruch
- list the underlying causes of WWI
- arms race, alliances, nationalism, imperialism
- georges clemenceau
- member of big four from france
- black hand
- secret organization that princip was apart of to assassinate archduke
- mary pickford
- helped enforce liberty bonds
- alvin york
- lead german machine gun nest
- explain nationalism
- when one nation thinks it's the greatest/best
- what events leg the united states into WWI
- assassination of archduke + isabella; sinking of lusitania; submarine warfare; zimmermann note
- what weapons were used for the 1st time in WWI
- machine guns, poison gas, submarine, zeppelins, airplanes, tanks, big bertha, flame thrower, barbed wire
- archduke ferdinant + queen isabella
- assassinated by princip; event started WWI