WWI
world war I
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- Draft-selective service
- where men ages 20-30 were ordered to go to war
- Central powers
- Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the ottoman empire
- attrition
- how much supplies you need for war.
- home front, U.S.
- Women worked along with africian americans. stong promoting of war
- League of Nations
- where all nations come together and go over problems.
- nationalism
- pride in one's country
- Influenza pandemic of 1918
- spanish flu
- Trench warfare
- went up over trenches to suprise enemy. to take enemys trenches
- Archduke Franz Ferdinand
- In Austia hungary he was shot by young serbian men. Shots that started WWI
- Battle of the Somme
- At Somme River.where the soldiors went over the top of the trenches and tried to take to enemy's trench. Not effective and most died.
- what caused WWI?
- inflexible military plans, Gavrilo Princip-archduke, Militarism, Germany, final was the assasination of archduke
- Bolsheviks
- goup of russians that tried to sieze government control.
- why did the U.S join the war?
- German U-boats,Zimmerman telegraph
- Alfred von Schlieffen
- his plan to go through belguim to attack france.
- Allied powers
- France, Brittian, and Russia- 21 others and U.S.
- propaganda
- using flashy headlines and messages to promote the war or support. Often using name calling.
- The christmas truce
- day of truce
- Schlieffen plan
- Germany planed to go through belguim to attack france.
- President Woodrow Wilson
- U.S president. he wanted to stay out of the war as long as possible
- Liberty Bonds
- Where people bought bonds so the government could get that money now for war. The bonds increased in interest over time.
- No mans land
- between the trenches. You were going to get shot.
- Militarism
- strong support of war. Army, navy, bombs. Example germany
- Zimmerman Telegraph
- a telegram form germany to Mexico telling them to invade the U.S. promising land and recources. Brittian intersepted it.
- Reparations
- repaying for war. Germany was forced to do this
- shell shock
- physically and mentally damaged from the war
- Kaiser Wilhelm II
- german leader. Built stongest army
- Big four
- America, France, Italy, Brittian
- fourteen points
- Wilson wanted peace. so he wanted to establish a league of nations.
- Sinking of the Lusitania
- German U-boats torpeoed unarmed american ship
- self determination
- freedom to the people, independence.
- Gavrilo Princip
- was the one who shot the archduke. belonged to the Serbs.
- February and October Revolutions
- overthrowing the Tsar in Russia
- 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month
- ended the war, germany gave up