WWI Vocabulary Quiz

A union or association formed for mutual benefit, especially between countries or organizations. This was a major cause of WWI.

• alliance

• nationalism

• ratify

• militarism

belief or desire of a government or people that a country should maintain a strong military and be prepared to use it to defend the nation.

• alliance

• nationalism

• ratify

• militarism

pride in one's country

• alliance

• nationalism

• ratify

• militarism

sign or give formal consent to (a treaty, contract, or agreement), making it officially valid.

• alliance

• nationalism

• ratify

• militarism

This was the president who was elected in 1912, and led the US into WWI. Later wrote a plan for post-WWI peace known as the Fourteen Points.

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Woodrow Wilson

• William Taft

• Herbert Hoover

One of the major reason that the U.S. joined the Allied side of World War I. This intercepted note from the German foreign minister to the Mexican government offered, territories in Texas, Arizona and New Mexico for Mexico.

• Trench Warfare

• Zimmerman Telegram

• Wilson;s Fourteen Point Plan

• Treaty of Versailles

international organization founded after the Paris Peace Conference, 1919. The goals included preventing war and settling disputes between countries through negotiation and improving global welfare.

• Treaty of Versailles

• Armistice

• League of Nations

• Wilson's Fourteen Point Plan

The plan for peace after the war

• Treaty of Versailles

• Armistice

• League of Nations

• Wilson's Fourteen Point Plan

Great Britain, France, Italy, Russia, Serbia, Belguim and later the US

• Allied Powers

• Central Powers

Austria-Hungary, Germany, Ottoman Empire & Bulgaria

• Allied Powers

• Central Powers