WW 1

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

• Howard Taft

• Woodrow Wilson

• Uncle Sam

Payment for war damages

• prapaganda

• alliances

• reparations

• imperialism

The countries that caused the start of World War I when a Serbian shot the Archduke of Austria-Hungary and his wife

• Mexico and the US

• Serbia and Austria-Hungary

• Neutral Powers

• Allied Powers

A grouping of nations where each one pledges mutual support to the others in case of attack

• Propaganda

• Militarism

• Alliances

• Sectionalism

Officially ended the war by: requiring Germany to accept full blame for the war, pay billions in reparations for war damages, give up all its military, and banned the manufacture of any weapons

• Treaty of Versailles -1920

• Treaty of Versailles-1820

• Luisitania Incident 1917

• League of Nations

German sinking of a British cruise ship with Americans aboard—key event that led to US entry into the war

• Armistice Day

• Luisitania Incident

• Treaty of Versailles

• Zimmerman Telegram

Official date for the ceasefire that ended the First World War. In the US, we still recognize it as Veteran's Day every November 11th.

• Alliance Day (1917)

• Zimmerman telegram (1917)

• Peace Day (November 11, 1900)

• Armistice Day (November 11, 1918)

building strong military power and keeping an army always prepared for war

• isolationism

• propaganda

• militarism

• imperialism

Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire

• Central Powers

• Allied Powers

Britain, France, Russia, later joined by US and Italy

• Central Powers

• Allied Powers