World War I

Heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. His assassination in Sarajevo by a Serbian nationalist triggered a chain reaction that lead to the Great War.

• Franz Ferdinand

• Gavrilo Princip

• Woodrow Wilson

• Kaiser Wilhelm

Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire formed this wartime alliance.

• Central Powers

• Allied Powers

• Neutral Powers

• Triple Entente

Maintaining a strong military capability and being prepared to use it to dfend and promote national interests.

• Imperialism

• Militarism

• Nationalism

• Alliances

A military strategy where opposing sides dig a network of tunnels in the ground in order to protect themselves from advanced military weaponry.

• unrestricted submarine warfare

• trench warfare

• guerilla warfare

• total warfare

Since the US was helping the Allies with weapons and supplies, Germany warned the US that it would attack any ship approaching the British coast. This is an example of

• unrestricted submarine warfare

• trench warfare

• nationalism

• propaganda

British intercepted this message from a German official to Mexico, where Germany asked Mexico to part of their alliance and to attack the US.

• The Lusitania

• Treaty of Versailles

• The Fourteen Points

• Zimmerman Telegram

Law that required all men between the ages of 21 and 30 to sign up for military service.

• Selective Service Act

• Espionage Act

• Sedition Act

• Neutrality Act

After the US joined the war, millions of African Americans moved from the rural South the the North to get factory jobs.

• The Assembly Line

• The Great Migration

• The Great War

• The Harlem Renaissance

As the war came to an end, President Wilson created this idealistic plan for peace, which included freedom of the seas and self-determination for conquered people.

• The Treaty of Versailles

• The Treaty of Paris

• The Fourteen Points

• The Neutrality Acts

An international peacekeeping organization created by the Treaty of Versailles that aimed at ending secret alliances. The goal of this organization was to preserve world peace.

• The League of Nations

• The United Nations

• The North Atlantic Treaty Organization

• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen