World War I

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  1. 3. This cause of World War I was a policy of building up strong armed forces to prepare for war.
  2. 5. of Nations This intergovernmental organization lasted from 1919-1946, was founded after the Paris Peace Conference. It did not work effectively to prevent WWII.
  3. 6. Baron Manfred von Richthofen had 80 kills and one of the most famous aces. German ace.
  4. 8. This cause of World War I was based on an intense pride in one's nation.
  5. 10. Powers This was a major alliance during World War I made up of Britain, France, Russia, and the United States. It was known as the Triple Entente(a French word) before the war.
  6. 11. These are the four main causes of World War I. Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism.
  7. 13. Powers This alliance during WWI included the United States, Great Britain, France, Russia and Italy (switched to the Allied Powers in 1915). (The blue countries of the East and West on map above)
  8. 16. This new machinery used by the Germans in sea warfare, to attack British and American supply ships in the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.
  9. 17. Telegram This intercepted note from the German foreign minister to the Mexican government offered, territories in Texas, Arizona and New Mexico for Mexico. The note also confirmed the new policy of unrestricted submarine warfare by Germany against the Allied Powers. This helped turn Americans against Germany in WWI.
  10. 19. This term refers to the payments and transfers of property that Germany was required to make under the treaty of Versailles.
  11. 20. This British passenger ship was sunk by German U-boats in 1915, carrying civilians and ammunition to Britain from the U.S. The event turned American opinion against Germany.
  12. 24. Restricting the amount of food and other goods people may buy during wartime to assure adequate supplies for the military
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  1. 1. Powers This was a major alliance at the 'center' of Europe during World War I, made up of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Ottoman Empire. It was formerly known as the Triple Alliance before the war. SHOWN ABOVE IN RED.
  2. 2. These are ideas or information that usually designed by a government to influence public opinion, often times to persuade a people to go to war.
  3. 4. Warfare This style of warfare was common in WWI, due to the invention of the machine gun and heavy artillery. It included digging long trenches, separated by barbed wire and a no mans land.
  4. 7. Front This was a major front in World War I. A line of trenches and fortifications in World War I that stretched without a break from Switzerland to the North Sea. This is where most of the fighting happened in World War II.
  5. 9. assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand This was the spark that started World War I. Archduke Ferdinand, the Austrian crown prince, was murdered on June 28, 1914, by a Serbian nationalist while visiting Sarajevo, Bosnia. Germany urged Austria-Hungary to fight and they went to war against Serbia; all of this due to Serbia wanting to expand
  6. 12. 1918 This was the agreement between the Allies and Central Powers that ended the fighting after WWI. It began at 11/11/1918 at 11:11 am. This marked a victory for the Allies and stated that the Central Powers lost. Germans would later look at this as "the stab in the back."
  7. 14. York Tennessee-born soldier whose action in the Argonne Forest made him an American hero
  8. 15. Fourteen Points This is the plan for post-World War I outlined by President Wilson in 1918. This plan called for self-determination (countries in Africa and Asia govern themselves), freedom of the seas, free trade, end to secret agreements, reduction of arms and a league of nations.
  9. 18. This Central Power empire during WWI, started the war with their invasion of Serbia after the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand on June 28, 1914 . It was made up of Austria, Hungary and several other nations and territories. After World War I it split up into several nations.
  10. 21. of Versailles Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.
  11. 22. Front This was a front in WWI. The region of fighting happened along the German-Russian Border where Russians and Serbs battled Germans, Austrians, and Turks.
  12. 23. Wilson This was the president who was elected in 1912, and led the US into WWI. Later wrote a plan for post-WWI peace known as the Fourteen Points.