WWI Padlet by Josie Rees

Militarism

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Building up/ expanding large military

Alliances

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Agreements between countries to help each other if one is attacked

Imperialism

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Large country taking another over for resources, power, etc.

Nationalism

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Extreme patriotic feeling for your country

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

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Austria-Hungary's heir who was assassinated. Started the war

Gavrilo Princip

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Shot Archduke of Austria-Hungary

Central Powers

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Austria-Hungary and Germany

Allied Powers

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Great Britain, France, Russia, US

Trench Warfare

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New war tactic that wasn't nerdy successful because neither side could gain land

No Man's Land

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Area between two opposing side's trenches

Hazardous Weapons

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Machine guns, chemicals, tanks, airplanes, etc.

Airplane/Dogfights

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Used to fight towards the end of WWI

Lusitania

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US ship blown up by German U-boats

Zimmerman Note

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Germany wrote a note to Mexico asking them to attack the US

Russian Revolution

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Revolution led by Lenin and took Russia out of the war

Battle of Somme

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Allied powers bombed German trenches, 1 million casualties

Isolationism

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People who didn't want war and to stay out of foreign affairs

Selective Service Act

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All men 21-30 had to register for the draft for WWI

Convoy System

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Formation of ships so that US could get their boats safely across the Atlantic

Spanish Flu

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Pandemic from China that spread during WWI, killing many soldiers

Propaganda

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Newspapers sold war to people, trying to get them invested

Armistice

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Cease fire while they Treaty was being made in France

Treaty of Versailles

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Officially ended WWI and blamed it on Germany

The Big 4

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Leaders of US, Italy, Great Britain, and France who all wanted different things after the war

Fourteen Points

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Wilson's ideas and thoughts on what the Treaty of Versailles should have in it to keep peace long term

League of Nations

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Created after WWI to try and keep peace in Europe

Reparations

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Blamed the war on Germany and forced them to pay other countries for the damage

War-guilt Clause

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Blamed the event of the war on Germany