front 1 WORLD WAR ONE | back 1 1914-1918 MOST DESTRUCTIVE WAR IN HISTORY UP TO THAT TIME |
front 2 FRANZ FERDINAND | back 2 HEIR TO THE AUSTRIAN THRONE WHO WAS ASSASSINATED IN JUNE OF 1914 SETTING OFF A SERIS OF EVENTS WHICH LED TO WORLD WAR ONE |
front 3 NATIONALISM | back 3 DESIRE OF A PEOPLE TO FORM A NATION TO PROMOTE THEIR COMMON CULTURE AND INTERESTS, CAUSE OF WWI |
front 4 IMPERIALISM | back 4 ESTABLISHING POLITICAL OR ECONOMIC CONTROL OVER OTHER COUNTRIES, EUROPEAN NATIONS COMPETED AGAINST EACH OTHER TO SEE WHO COULD ACQUIRE THE MOST TERRITORY |
front 5 ARMS RACE | back 5 EUROPEAN NATIONS COMPETED IN BUILDING LARGE ARMIES AND NAVIES |
front 6 CONSCRIPTION | back 6 DRAFTING MEN INTO THE ARMY THIS PRODUCES HUGE ARMIES |
front 7 MILITARISM | back 7 GLORIFYING OF WAR SEE WAR AS A GOOD OR POSITIVE ACTIVITY |
front 8 ALLIANCE SYSTEM | back 8 EUROPEAN NATIONS WERE DIVIDED INTO ALLIANCE THAT PLEDGED TO FOGHT WITH THEIR ALLIES IN CASE OF WAR |
front 9 TRIPLE ALLIANCE/ LATER THE CENTRAL POWERS | back 9 MILITARY ALLIANCE BETWEEN GERMANY AUSTRIA-HUNGARY AND ITALY (ITALY LATER QUIT) |
front 10 TRIPLE ENTENTE/ LATER THE ALLIES | back 10 MILITARY ALLIANCE BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN FRANCE AND RUSSIA ITALY LATER JOINED |
front 11 MOBILIZATION | back 11 WHEN A NATION PREPARES FOR WAR BY CALLING UP ITS RESERVES THE FIRST NATION TO MOBILIZE HAD THE ADVANTAGE |
front 12 BELGIUM | back 12 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 |
front 13 TRENCH WARFARE | back 13 MODERN WEAPONS FORCED THE SOLDIERS TO DIG TRENCH LINES THAT STRETCHED OVER 400 MILES FROM THE NORTH SEA TO SWITZERLAND |
front 14 STALEMATE | back 14 NEITHER SIDE COULD BREAK THE OTHERS TRENCH LINES FOR OVER FOUR YEARS DESPITE ATTACKS THAT KILLED MILLIONS |
front 15 NEW WEAPONS | back 15 MACHINE GUNS HEAVY ARTILLERY POISON GAS TANKS AIRPLANES SUBMARINES |
front 16 U-BOATS | back 16 SUBMARINES THE GERMANS HOPED TO STARVE BRITAIN INTO SURRENDER BY SINKING MERCHANT SHIPS CARRYING FOOD AND SUPPLIES TO BRITAIN FROM OTHER NATIONS |
front 17 WOODROW WILSON | back 17 AMERICAN PRESIDENT FROM 1912-1920 TRIED TO KEEP THE US OUT OF THE WAR UNTIL 1917 |
front 18 NEUTRALITY | back 18 WHAT WILSON TRIED TO MAINTAIN FOR THE US STAY OUT OF THE WAR |
front 19 LUSITANIA | back 19 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 |
front 20 SUSSEX PLEDGE | back 20 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 |
front 21 ELECTION OF 1916 | back 21 WILSON WON WITH THE CAMPAIGN SLOGAN " HE KEPT US OUT OF WAR" |
front 22 UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE | back 22 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 |
front 23 ARMED NEUTRALITY | back 23 AFTER GERMANY BROKE THE SUSSEX PLEDGE US AMRED ITS MERCHANT SHIPS TO FIGHT OFF U-BOATS |
front 24 ZIMMERMANN NOTE | back 24 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 |
front 25 RUSSIAN REVOLUTION | back 25 WHEN THE CZAR ( KING OF RUSSIA) WAS OVERTHROWN IN 1917 AND A DEMOCRATIC GOVT SET UP AMERICANS FELT THEY COULD JOIN THE ALLIES |
front 26 APRIL 6 1917 | back 26 US DECLARED WAR ON GERMANY AND THE CENTRAL POWERS |
front 27 JOHN J. PERSHING | back 27 COMMANDER OF THE AMERICAN ARMY SENT TO EUROPE |
front 28 AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE | back 28 NAME FOR THE US ARMY SENT TO EUROPE DURING WWI |
front 29 BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION | back 29 COMMUNIST REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA IN NOV 1917 THAT OVERTHREW THE DEMOCRATIC GOVT THAT HAD OVERTHROWN THE CZAR |
front 30 LENIN | back 30 LEADER OF COMMUNIST GOVT THAT TOOK POWER IN RUSSIA IN NOV 17 |
front 31 DOUGHBOYS | back 31 NAME FOR US SOLDIERS THAT FOUGHT DURING WWI |
front 32 NOV 11 1918 | back 32 ARMISTICE ENDING WWI WAS SIGNED |
front 33 SELECTIVE SERVICE ACT | back 33 MAY 1917 REQUIRED ALL YOUNG MEN TO SIGN UP FOR MILITARY SERVICE OVER 5 MILLION MEN SERVED IN THE ARMED FORCES DURING WWI |
front 34 WAR INDUSTRIES BOARD | back 34 CONTROLLED MANY ASPECTS OF THE US ECONOMY FOR THE PURPOSE OF CREATING A STRONG MILITARY |
front 35 COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC INFORMATION | back 35 US AGENCY THAT USED PROPAGANDA TO ENCOURAGE AMERICANS TO SUPPORT THE WAR |
front 36 FOURTEEN POINTS | back 36 WILSON PLAN FOR ENDING THE WAR GERMANY SURRENDERED BASED THESE |
front 37 LEAGUE OF NATIONS | back 37 WILSON'S PLAN TO FORM A WORLD ORGANIZATION TO KEEP THE PEACE THE US NEVER JOINED |
front 38 TREATY OF VERSAILLES | back 38 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 |
front 39 GENOCIDE | back 39 MILLIONS OF ARMENIANS WERE MURDERED BY THE TURKS IT MEANS THE SYSTEMATIC DESTRUCTION OF AN ENTIRE PEOPLE HITLER LATER USED IT AGAINST THE JEWS |
front 40 PARIS PEACE TALKS | back 40 MEETING OF THE LEADERS OF THE ALLIES TO DECIDE ON THE PEACE TERMS ENDING WWI WILSON WAS NOT SUCCESSFUL AND MADE MANY MISTAKES |
front 41 ANTI DEMOCRATIC MEASURES | back 41 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 |
front 42 WOMEN AND BLACKS | back 42 WOMEN GOT VOTE AFTER THE WAR BUT BLACKS FOUND CONDITIONS NO BETTER MANY HAD MOVED TO THE NORTH TO GET JOBS DURING THE WAR |