WW1 Chapter 11 topics
1. What were the causes of WWI in Europe?
- mutual defense alliances (central powers and allied forces)
- Imperialism
- Militarism
- Nationalism
- Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
the assassination was the spark that started the was then the countries formed alliences so they all made eachother go into the was
2. What were the major alliances of WWI?
Central Powers
- Austio-Hungarian Empire
- German Empire
- Ottoman Empire
- Kingdom of Vulgaria
Allied Powers
- Great Britian
- Russia
- Italy
- France
- US
- Belgium
- Servia
3. What were the goals of WWI for all the major countries involved?
Austria -Hungary
- Control serbia
- the assasination of Fanz Ferdinand
- Gain control of the Ottoman empire
Great Brittian
- maintain themselves as a superpower and a leading country
- 19th century british empire was the world's leading economic and political powerhouse
- worried about the german threat
- protect france both being threat
Germany
- Secure/maintain german unification
- german speaking people into one strong, independent state.
- isolate france
- long standing rivalry with france
- bad los in thirty years war
- german anger
- acquire colonies
Russia
- got out of war
- lost war to germany
- because they got out of the war which led to them being comunist
- bulshivik revolutioin
France
- avenge previous military defeats
- germans majority of the population
- eliminate the germans in a short yet powerful offensive
- cripple german industrial capacity
- couldn't keep up with britain, the US , and Germany
- diminish german industrial power
- goal leading industrial power on the continent
- become a dominant continental power
US
- "Safe for Democracy" -Wilson
- us saying that we think everyone should be free with democracy
4. What were some of the major land battles prior to US involvement-1914-March, 1917?
- Battle of Verdum
- Battle of Marne (Sept. 4th 1914)
- Battle of Ypes
- Battle of Passchendaele (wearing out the enemy and securing the belgium cost)
- Battle of the Lys
- Advance of Flanders
- Battle of Somme
5. What were some of the major naval battles of WWI?
- Battle of Jutland (largest navel battle british dominate the north sea)
- Battle of Dogger Bank (in the north sea, result a huge victory for the brittish)
- Battle of Heligoland ( british victory)
- Battle of Coronel
- Battle of Falkland Islands
6. What were the US reactions to WWI starting in 1914?
We declared nutrality
7. What were the causes for US involvement in WWI?
- Germany's U-Boats sunk the lusitania boat killing 128 americans, and sinking many other boats
- Trade with England rose, Germany declined
- The Zimmerman Note (telegram sent by the foreign secretary of the German Empire Arthur Zimmermann on Jan. 16 1917,
- it was intercepted and decoded by the british cryptographers and it said that germany tried to get mexico to declare war on the US.
- Germany promised Mexico that they would get the mexican cession back if they won.
- Germany wanted to keep the US out of Europe)
- beleifs of War Hawks saying that we should go to war
- British and American Propaganda (the british tried to get us in the war with songs trying to get the people want the war)
- Preparedness Program (US started arming and preparing for war)
- American Business (munitions business pushed US into war to make money)
- German declaration of "unlimited submarine warefare"
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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