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| 9403793355 | the Great War | World War I, which lasted from 1914 to 1918, was known as this, not because of its positive nature, but because of the immense scale of the fighting | 0 | |
| 9403793356 | Gavrilo Princip | The assassin of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria, a member of the Black Hand | 1 | |
| 9403793357 | Archduke Franz Ferdinand | heir to the Austria-Hungarian throne, was assassinated with his wife Sophie, on June 28, 1914 in Sarajevo, started World War I. | 2 | |
| 9403793358 | Black Hand | Princip, a Serbian nationalist, was a member of this, a nationalist organization devoted to ending Austria-Hungarian presence in the Balkans | 3 | |
| 9403793359 | Militarism | Defined as aggressive military preparedness, this celebrates war and the Armed Forces | 4 | |
| 9403793360 | Secret Alliances | in the quest for power European nations also form these, groups whose members secretly agreed to protect and help one another when attacked | 5 | |
| 9403793361 | Triple Entente | Britain and France were allies with Russia in this, but they also viewed Germany as a rival | 6 | |
| 9403793362 | Allies | after the war began, the triple entente added the United States China and Japan. This diverse group became known as the allies during World War I | 7 | |
| 9403793363 | Triple Alliance | The Allies' rival alliance before the war was known as this; composed of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy | 8 | |
| 9403793364 | Central Powers | at the outbreak of the war, the Ottoman empire joined the triple alliance which was also called this | 9 | |
| 9403793365 | self-determination | The idea that peoples of the same ethnicity, language, culture, and political ideals should be united and should have the right to form an independent nation state | 10 | |
| 9403793366 | Saving Private Ryan | set during World War II, show that war is not a glorious experience, but most European's saw warfare differently during the first few months of World War I. | 11 | |
| 9403793367 | Platoon | set during the Vietnam war, shows that war is not a glorious experience, but most Europeans saw warfare differently during the first few months of World War I | 12 | |
| 9403793368 | Poison Gas | was one of the most insidious weapons of the new style of warfare. Chlorine, phosgene, and mustard gas were used during World War I | 13 | |
| 9403793369 | machine guns | developed in the late 1800s, these could fire more than 500 rounds of ammunition per minute, increasing the deadly impact of warfare | 14 | |
| 9403793370 | submarines | although these were use briefly in the American Civil War, they played a larger role in World War I, causing havoc on the shipping lanes of the Atlantic ocean | 15 | |
| 9403793371 | airplanes | in 1914 were still light and small and unable to carry many weapons | 16 | |
| 9403793372 | tanks | allowed armies to move across vast areas of difficult terrain, even over trenches | 17 | |
| 9403793373 | Trench Warfare | was not a glorious way to fight a war. Combatant nations dug hundreds of miles of trenches facing one another, and soldiers slept, ate, and fought in the trenches for months at a time | 18 | |
| 9403793374 | All Quiet on the Western Front | Erich Maria Remarque's 1929 novel in the 1930 film based on it, give a vivid sense of a soldier's life in the trenches during World War I | 19 | |
| 9403793375 | Stalemate | with both the Central Powers in the allies using brutal weapons and tactics, neither side could defeat the other. The result was a bloody four year situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible in which the suffering and death went on and on | 20 | |
| 9403793376 | u-boat | German submarine | 21 | |
| 9403793377 | Lusitania | on May 7, 1915, a German submarine attacks in saying this, and ocean liner carrying more than 100 US citizens among its passengers | 22 | |
| 9403793378 | Zimmerman Telegram | The event that finally push the United States into the war was the interception of this in January 1917. In this document, the German government offered to help Mexico reclaim territory it lost the United States in 1848 if Mexico allied with Germany in the war | 23 | |
| 9403793379 | soviets | vying for political power outside of the duma, the Russian parliament, were several of these, groups of workers or soldiers led by socialists, which promised the Russian people perform such as land redistribution and better opportunities for education | 24 | |
| 9403793380 | Bolsheviks | A party of radical socialists that seized power in November 1917, promising "peace, land, and bread" to hungry, war weary Russians | 25 | |
| 9403793381 | Soviet Russia | in March 1918, the leaders of this signed the Treaty of Brest-Litvosk with Germany ending Russia's involvement in World War I | 26 | |
| 9403793382 | Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | in March 1918, the leaders of the new Soviet Russia signed this with Germany, ending Russia's involvement in World War I | 27 | |
| 9403793383 | Communist | The treaty gave the new Bolshevik government time to concentrate on building this type of state based on Marxist principles of common ownership ship all property | 28 | |
| 9403793384 | Total War | Combatant nations intensified the conflict in World War I by committing all of their resources into the war effort. this strategy, meant that a nations domestic population, in addition to its military, was committed to winning the war | 29 | |
| 9403793385 | Propaganda | Communication meant to influence the attitudes and opinions of a community around a particular subject by spreading inaccurate or slanted information | 30 | |
| 9403793386 | global war | World War I was fought in Europe, Asia, and Africa and in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Not since the seven years war of the late 18th century have there been such a _______ ____ | 31 | |
| 9403793387 | ANZAC | Australian and New Zealand troops formed a special core known as this and fought in a bloody year-long campaign at Gallipoli that resulted in heavy allied losses with little to show for the effort | 32 | |
| 9403793388 | Gallipoli | A peninsula in north western turkey | 33 | |
| 9415987579 | Armistice Day | Allied advances against Central Powers force Germany to surrender on November 11, 1918, now known as this | 34 | |
| 9415987580 | Genocide | The most shocking example of atrocities were the deaths of between 600,000 and 1.5 million Armenians in Turkey. This action has been called the 20th century's first ______, The attempted killing of a group of people based on their race, religion, or ethnicity | 35 | |
| 9415987581 | influenza pandemic | war related deaths continued pass Armistice Day in the form of this | 36 | |
| 9415987582 | Pandemic | In 1919, the epidemic became a ______ (A disease prevalent over a large area or the entire world parentheses), killing 20 million people in Europe, the United States, and elsewhere | 37 | |
| 9415987583 | Lost Generation | this term, first used to describe American expatriate writers living in Paris after the war, came to be used more broadly to describe those suffering from the shock of the war | 38 | |
| 9415987584 | Paris Peace Conference | The leaders of the victorious countries at this became known as the Big Four | 39 | |
| 9415987585 | Big Four | Woodrow Wilson (United States), David Lloyd George (Great Britain), Georges Clemenceau (France), and Vittorio Orlando (Italy) | 40 | |
| 9415987586 | Soviet Union | soviet Russia, later called this, was not invited to the conference because it had undergone a communist revolution | 41 | |
| 9415987587 | Woodrow Wilson | One of the big four, pledge to establish "peace without victory" reflected his belief that no one country should be severely punished or greatly rewarded | 42 | |
| 9415987588 | George Clemenceau | One of the big four, rejected Wilson's view: he believed that France, out of all the allies represented at the conference, had suffered the most and thus deserved special considerations to be protected from Germany. | 43 | |
| 9415987589 | David Lloyd George | One of the big four, tended to support Clemenceau's ideas, but he often acted as an intermediary between the two differing points of view | 44 | |
| 9415987590 | Fourteen Points | despite Clemenceau's protests, Wilson pushed for his principles, what he outlined in a document called this | 45 | |
| 9415987591 | League of Nations | Wilson particularly wanted to create this, an organization in which nations of the world would convene to discuss conflicts ultimately, as a way to avoid the simmering tensions that had caused World War I | 46 | |
| 9415987592 | Treaty of Versailles | although the other nations agreed to establish the league, the US Senate voted against joining it and against ratifying this, the 1919 peace treaty with Germany | 47 | |
| 9415987593 | reparations | payment of money for wrongs committed, Germany had to pay this after the war | 48 | |
| 9415987594 | Weimar Government | resentment towards this, which had agreed to the terms of the treaty of versailles, set the stage for an extreme and militaristic political party known as the Nazis to take power barely 15 years later | 49 | |
| 9415987595 | Decolonization | nationalists in Africa and Asia hoped that the blood they shed for their "home countries" would earn them some respect from Western Europe and thus begin a _______ process | 50 | |
| 9415987596 | Big Three | The peace conference's _____ _______ — Lloyd George, Wilson, and Clemenceau — We're not at all interested in freeing the colonies | 51 | |
| 9416059147 | Mandate System | The allies forgot all of their promises and through the league of Nations established a _______ _______ to rule the colonies and territories of the Central Powers | 52 | |
| 9416059148 | Pan-Arabism | an ideology that called for the unification of all lands in north Africa and southwest Asia | 53 | |
| 9416059149 | Balfour Declaration | 1917, when the British government issued this, which stated that Palestine should become a permanent home for the Jews of Europe | 54 | |
| 9416059150 | Palestine | The British government wanted this place to be a permanent home for the Jews of Europe | 55 | |
| 9416059151 | Zionists | those who supported a Jewish homeland | 56 | |
| 9416059152 | March First Movement | demonstrated the power of Korean nationalism | 57 | |
| 9416059153 | May Fourth Movement | symbolize China's growing nationalism and demand for democracy. Several of these leaders joined the Chinese communist party | 58 |
