when did ww1 begin? End ?

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Reasons the United States entered WWI

1. Zimmerman telegram 2. Sinking of the British luxury ocean liner, the Lusitania

Central Powers

Austria-Hungary, Germany, Ottoman Empire

Capital cities and their importance

If a army takes a capital city its over

Treaty of Versailles

Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.

Flaw

defect

Neutrality

policy of supporting neither side in a war

Weapons of WWI

tanks, machine guns, grenades, poisonous gas, artillary, airplanes

No man's land

front line/ gonna die

Cost of WWI

human lives and lots of money

Paris Peace Conference

1919, meeting of the Allies at the end of WWI, concluded with Treaty of Versailles

Woodrow Wilson

28th President of the United States

Stalemate

A deadlock in which neither side is able to defeat the other

Trench Warfare

A form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield.

Armistice

An agreement to stop fighting

Location of the Western front

Between France and Germany

Location of the Eastern front

Border of Germany and Russia

New countries in Europe

Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Austria, Hungary, Turkey, Czechoslovakia

Allies (WWII)

France, Britain, US and SU

when did ww1 begin? End ?

July 28, 1914 - November 11, 1918

Causes of WWI (MAIN)

M- Militarism A- Alliances I- Imperialism N- Nationalism

Describe trench warfare and related key terms

Trench warfare was people in trenches fighting a war

2nd Battle of the Marne

Turning point in the war because Germany went to a defensive war after their defeat

Shell Shock

being told you were gonna go over the top into no mans land

Over the top

going out over the top of the trenches, into no man's land

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

heir to the Austria-Hungarian throne, was assassinated in Sarajevo, started World War I.

Lost Generation / Great Depression

people were depressed because they won nothing

Schlieffen plan

the Germans planned to take over Pairs

gas

the french were the first to use this during ww1


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