7th Hour WWI Test Topics
The Great War (WWI) 1914-1918. called the 'War to end all wars'- but it actually started more wars.
Causes of WWI (Group 3) problems in Europe- imperialism, nationalism, alliances, and militarism. more problems- land disputation , competitions for money land etc. the beginning of the war- the assassination- arch duck of something.
Archduke Ferdinand- (Group 4) was an archduke of Austria and the royal prince and was gonna be king but was killed before he got to be. he was the richest man in Hungary at age 11. the person who killed him was 19 yrs old. him an his wife were both shot and killed.
Leaders of major countries involved/alliances- (Group 4) countries- Allied power: France. Britain, Russia Italy US Central Power:: Germany Hungary, Turkey and Bulgaria. the US president was Wilson he was apart of the big four- four main leaders. he led the Allies to victory Kept US neutral until 1917. Russia leader- Tsar Nicholas the 2nd. great britain- Lloyd George. Italy- Emilio Orlando.
Trenches (Group 1) because amry would be fighting and couldnt get anywhere so then they dug trenches so they would be on the defence insted. the trenched were discusting. dead bodies, bodily waist and water just set in there. and people that would stand in the water for too long their feet would begin to decompose.
Main weapons used and new weapons invented ( Group 7) made plans to use in the wars. then they mounted a gun to the plan. they had bombers on the plan, and made it so more then one bomb couuld be put onto the plan. Manfre Von Richthofen, he was the best pilot and he was the michael jordan of war fliers. he was german. he shot down the most plans. German U-Boat, Royal Navy, Seaplane- planes that could take off and land from the water. planes forced U-Boats under water-because the boats couldnt come up to the surface because the planes would shoot them once visible. Tanks were an early development. their original designs failed. top speed was 4 mph. grenades anti-tanks- guns that were strong enough to take down tanks. motars- canons they were use to take out trenches. knives. flame thrower- use them to clear out machine gun nests. trench rading- anything you could find in a trench. gas
Transportation methods (importance of planes, trains, vehicles…)-(Group 3)
How US got involved (Group 1) we were nutral for a while and then, the Zimmermann telegram- sent from germany and it was sent to mexico but we got it and it was saying that germeny and mexico were gonna try to take over us and take their stuff back like texas. Propaganda- was to get people to join the war and fight for us we were convincing people that joiniing the war was a good thing todo. its a way of convincing people through media. German Submarine warfare- they would sink anyones ships and they didnt care and it worried us beause we didnt want that to happen tp us. sussex pledge- they would not hit anyship that had passengers on it only merchant ships but they did hit a shi[ with people on it. they said we will not hit any merchant ship only if armed. they sunk one of our ships and it was a big reason bc it was one of our ships. it was going to the us from germany it had a ton of people on it and only 88 or so survived.
Battles (Christian B. and Keenan-Oracio) Battle of Somme: 1st of july in 1916. it was between the British and French empires. it was one of the biggest battles in WW1 and around 1,000,000 people died. main point was to take pressure off the french. Battle of Vedun- ot was between French and the Germans. it was in 1916 also. Germans were trying to gain paris and the French would not let it happen. 250,00 people died. Battle of Gaza- march 1917. the first attempt by egyptian fore to invade. all the fighting happened i=around the town of gaza. 523 killed, 2932 wounded, and 512 missing. Battle of Belleau- us and germany. 9,777 casulties was faught in 1918. Argonne Forest- 1918 in the rArmistice. US vs France and Germany. Capturing the train station. 117,000 people died. Chateau Thierry- 1918. US vs France, Belgum and Germany. 100 days affencive- agust to november 1918 US last time we pushed against germany. caused the end of the war boths sides agreed to stop fighting.
Homefront(Group 2) this was my groups topic- here is our slide show. https://docs.google.com/a/hcsdcyclones.com/presentation/d/1olylDcPPPhEmz6RATT4TCPfsfExUg0W2_LGLf8Zi2Rs/edit#slide=id.g11f36de7f_15
Then We listened to Mr. Bruns sing along to a song. lol. Woman had to take of and did the men's jobs back home. they created the American Red Cross so they could get things to send to the troops over seas. thiss also started woman going for the right to vote. durring the war the children got affected by this because their dads werent home and they had to step up and take up more responsibility. and they were kind of on their own. African americans wanted to prove them selves that they were just as important they were too. they wanted to prove that they were just as good as everyone else.
October Revolution (Group 3) started in 1917. the russians had lost about 9 million troops. March 3rd 1918 they assigned the treaty it got them out of the war. the russians lost alot to the germans they lost their areas of pollend, Estonia, Finland. also made them pay a lot of money.
Wilson’s 14 Points(Zach and Lucas) 1.) no secret agreements between the countries. 2.) free navigation of all seas, seas would be free to whom ever wants to sail it. 3.) free trade between countries. 4.) reduce weapon numbers. to reduce military numbers. 5.) all decisions with the colonies should be fare give independence. 6.) Russia can make its own government choices we got out of Russia and letting countries do what they want. 7.) Belgium should be independent. 8.) france should be fully liberate. 9.) 10.) self determinations should be allowed. 11.) let them have independence for the Balkan states. 12.) turish people should be governed my turkey. 13.) poland became independent. 14.) bunch of countries coming together and working out thier problems insted of just fighting
Armistice (Group 6) and agreement to stop fighting a trety is to stop the war and an armisitice is to stop fighting. the allies started a final push at Germany. central powers started to give up. Germany gave up on november 11th 1918. between allies and germany. ended the fighting in WWI. that day became armistice day which latter became Verteran's day.
Outcome of world war one (Group 1) allied forces won. (US Britain and France). German fored to surrender. signing of the treaty (end of the WWI and started WWII) League of nations was formed. the war ended on the 11 hr, on the 11th day of the 11th month. it was called Armistice day which is now veterans day.. 15 million died, 22 million wounded. total US dead: 117,465. at the end of the war it was the defete of a bunch of countries. new countries-Czechoslovakia, Hungry, Estonia. Finland. Latvia, Lithuania. Poland, Yugoslavia.
- Treaty of Versailles(Group 6) June 28, 1919- when it was signed. in the versailis palace. alot of the leaders were there. leader of france was really pushing for it. it took 6 months of nagotiating/ finalized. Germany was a B.R.A.T.E so we had to punish them. Germany took the blame they had to pay for it. germany had to pay all the damages of the war. 33 billion dollars. it would be 500 billion dollars today. their army was 100 thousand men. germany lost al their land all the colonies went to britain and france. leaugue of nations- 5 members, G.B. France, Italy US and Japan.
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