Friday, December 1st, 2011

1. What were the causes of WWI in Europe?
-Central powers and Allied forces
-imperialism
-militarism
-nationalism
-assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand


2. What were the major alliances of WWI?
-Biggest Allied Powers: US, France, Great Britain, Italy, Russia
-Russia and Serbia
-Germany and Austria-Hungary
-France and Russia
-Britain and France and Belgium
-Japan and Britain


3. What were the goals of WWI for all the major countries involved?
-Austria Hungary..wanted to control Serbia and the Ottoman Empire
-Great Britain..wanted to maintain as a superpower and leading country, keep British empire
-Germany..maintain German unification, isolate France, acquire colonies
-Russia..got out of war, Bulshivik Revolution
-France..recapture Alsace-Lorraine, become the Dominant Continental Power


4. What were some of the major land battles prior to US involvement-1914-March, 1917?
-Battle of Verdum
-Battle of Marne
-Battle of Ypres
-Battle of Passchendaele
-Battle of Lys
-The Advance of Flounders
-Battle od Somme


5. What were some of the major naval battles of WWI?
-Battle of Jutland
-Battle of Dogger Bank
-Battle of Heligoland
-Battle of Coronel
-Battle of Falkland Islands
6. What were the US reactions to WWI starting in 1914?
-declared neutrality

7. What were the causes for US involvement in WWI?
-Great Britain and Germany were sinking US ships  ***
-Zimmerman note (was a code telegram) ***
-American Business

8. What were the major land battles for the US in WWI?


9. What were the major military strategies for winning the war for both Allied and Central Powers?


10. What were some of the weapons of WWI?



11. Describe trench warfare.


12. Describe what happened on the US Home Front in WWI.


13. Describe Wilson's 14 Points.


14. Describe the points of the Treaty of Versailles.



15. Why did the US never pass the Treaty of Versailles?


16. Why did the Allied Powers win WWI?



17. Describe the impact WWI had on the world.



18. How did countries react to the Treaty of Versailles?
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