WORLD WAR ONE
1914-1918 MOST DESTRUCTIVE WAR IN HISTORY UP TO THAT TIME
FRANZ FERDINAND
HEIR TO THE AUSTRIAN THRONE WHO WAS ASSASSINATED IN JUNE OF 1914 SETTING OFF A SERIS OF EVENTS WHICH LED TO WORLD WAR ONE
NATIONALISM
DESIRE OF A PEOPLE TO FORM A NATION TO PROMOTE THEIR COMMON CULTURE AND INTERESTS, CAUSE OF WWI
IMPERIALISM
ESTABLISHING POLITICAL OR ECONOMIC CONTROL OVER OTHER COUNTRIES, EUROPEAN NATIONS COMPETED AGAINST EACH OTHER TO SEE WHO COULD ACQUIRE THE MOST TERRITORY
ARMS RACE
EUROPEAN NATIONS COMPETED IN BUILDING LARGE ARMIES AND NAVIES
CONSCRIPTION
DRAFTING MEN INTO THE ARMY THIS PRODUCES HUGE ARMIES
MILITARISM
GLORIFYING OF WAR SEE WAR AS A GOOD OR POSITIVE ACTIVITY
ALLIANCE SYSTEM
EUROPEAN NATIONS WERE DIVIDED INTO ALLIANCE THAT PLEDGED TO FOGHT WITH THEIR ALLIES IN CASE OF WAR
TRIPLE ALLIANCE/ LATER THE CENTRAL POWERS
MILITARY ALLIANCE BETWEEN GERMANY AUSTRIA-HUNGARY AND ITALY (ITALY LATER QUIT)
TRIPLE ENTENTE/ LATER THE ALLIES
MILITARY ALLIANCE BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN FRANCE AND RUSSIA ITALY LATER JOINED
MOBILIZATION
WHEN A NATION PREPARES FOR WAR BY CALLING UP ITS RESERVES THE FIRST NATION TO MOBILIZE HAD THE ADVANTAGE
BELGIUM
SMALL EUROPEAN NATION THAT WAS NEUTRAL BY MUTAL TREATIES GERMANY VIOLATED THE TREATY INVADED BELGIUM AND BRITAIN DECLARED WAR ON GERMANY ON AUGUST 4 1914
TRENCH WARFARE
MODERN WEAPONS FORCED THE SOLDIERS TO DIG TRENCH LINES THAT STRETCHED OVER 400 MILES FROM THE NORTH SEA TO SWITZERLAND
STALEMATE
NEITHER SIDE COULD BREAK THE OTHERS TRENCH LINES FOR OVER FOUR YEARS DESPITE ATTACKS THAT KILLED MILLIONS
NEW WEAPONS
MACHINE GUNS HEAVY ARTILLERY POISON GAS TANKS AIRPLANES SUBMARINES
U-BOATS
SUBMARINES THE GERMANS HOPED TO STARVE BRITAIN INTO SURRENDER BY SINKING MERCHANT SHIPS CARRYING FOOD AND SUPPLIES TO BRITAIN FROM OTHER NATIONS
WOODROW WILSON
AMERICAN PRESIDENT FROM 1912-1920 TRIED TO KEEP THE US OUT OF THE WAR UNTIL 1917
NEUTRALITY
WHAT WILSON TRIED TO MAINTAIN FOR THE US STAY OUT OF THE WAR
LUSITANIA
BRITISH PASSENGER SHIP THAT WAS SUNK BY A U-BOAT (GERMAN SUBMARINE) KILLING 1198 PASSENGER INCLUDING 128 AMERICANS, AMERICANS WERE ANGRY AND THREATENED TO GO TO WAR
SUSSEX PLEDGE
AFTER THE GERMANS SANK A FRENCH PASSENGER SHIP IN 1916 AND ANGERED THE US THE GERMAN GOVT PROMISED NOT TO SINK MERCHANT SHIP "WITHOUT WARNING AND WITHOUT SAVING LIVES" US BEGAN PREPARING FOR WAR
ELECTION OF 1916
WILSON WON WITH THE CAMPAIGN SLOGAN " HE KEPT US OUT OF WAR"
UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE
FEB 1917 AFTER THE GERMANS KNOCKED RUSSIA OUT OF THE WAR THEY STARTING SINKING ALL MERCHANT SHIPS BELIEVING THEY COULD WIN THE WAR BEFORE THE US COULD MOBILIZE AND HELP THE ALLIES
ARMED NEUTRALITY
AFTER GERMANY BROKE THE SUSSEX PLEDGE US AMRED ITS MERCHANT SHIPS TO FIGHT OFF U-BOATS
ZIMMERMANN NOTE
MARCH 1 1917 GERMANY OFFERED MEXICO A DEAL. IF THEY JOINED GERMANY IN FIGHTING THE US THEY COULD HAVE BACK NEW MEXICO TEXAS AND ARIZONA AFTER THE US WAS DEFEATED THE US FOULD OUT ABOUT THE NOTE AND IT ANGERED AMERICANS AND MADE READY TO DECLARE WAR ON GERMANY
RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
WHEN THE CZAR ( KING OF RUSSIA) WAS OVERTHROWN IN 1917 AND A DEMOCRATIC GOVT SET UP AMERICANS FELT THEY COULD JOIN THE ALLIES
APRIL 6 1917
US DECLARED WAR ON GERMANY AND THE CENTRAL POWERS
JOHN J. PERSHING
COMMANDER OF THE AMERICAN ARMY SENT TO EUROPE
AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE
NAME FOR THE US ARMY SENT TO EUROPE DURING WWI
BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION
COMMUNIST REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA IN NOV 1917 THAT OVERTHREW THE DEMOCRATIC GOVT THAT HAD OVERTHROWN THE CZAR
LENIN
LEADER OF COMMUNIST GOVT THAT TOOK POWER IN RUSSIA IN NOV 17
DOUGHBOYS
NAME FOR US SOLDIERS THAT FOUGHT DURING WWI
NOV 11 1918
ARMISTICE ENDING WWI WAS SIGNED
SELECTIVE SERVICE ACT
MAY 1917 REQUIRED ALL YOUNG MEN TO SIGN UP FOR MILITARY SERVICE OVER 5 MILLION MEN SERVED IN THE ARMED FORCES DURING WWI
WAR INDUSTRIES BOARD
CONTROLLED MANY ASPECTS OF THE US ECONOMY FOR THE PURPOSE OF CREATING A STRONG MILITARY
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC INFORMATION
US AGENCY THAT USED PROPAGANDA TO ENCOURAGE AMERICANS TO SUPPORT THE WAR
FOURTEEN POINTS
WILSON PLAN FOR ENDING THE WAR GERMANY SURRENDERED BASED THESE
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
WILSON'S PLAN TO FORM A WORLD ORGANIZATION TO KEEP THE PEACE THE US NEVER JOINED
TREATY OF VERSAILLES
FORMAL AGREEMENT THAT ENDED WWI GERMANY WAS FORCED TO ACCEPT THE BLAME FOR STARTING THE WAR AND HAS TO PAY REPARATIONS UNFAIR PARTS OF THE TREATY WERE PARTIALLY TO BLAME FOR WWII IT WAS NEVER RATIFIED BY THE US
GENOCIDE
MILLIONS OF ARMENIANS WERE MURDERED BY THE TURKS IT MEANS THE SYSTEMATIC DESTRUCTION OF AN ENTIRE PEOPLE HITLER LATER USED IT AGAINST THE JEWS
PARIS PEACE TALKS
MEETING OF THE LEADERS OF THE ALLIES TO DECIDE ON THE PEACE TERMS ENDING WWI WILSON WAS NOT SUCCESSFUL AND MADE MANY MISTAKES
ANTI DEMOCRATIC MEASURES
PASSED BY CONGRESS DURING THE WAR TO FORCE EVERY AMERICAN TO TALK AND ACT LIKE THE GIVT WANTED THEM TO A TRADING WITH THE ENEMY ACT B. SEDITION ACT C. ESPIONAGE ACT
WOMEN AND BLACKS
WOMEN GOT VOTE AFTER THE WAR BUT BLACKS FOUND CONDITIONS NO BETTER MANY HAD MOVED TO THE NORTH TO GET JOBS DURING THE WAR