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| 13423441672 | Gavrilo Princip | A Serbian nationalist and member of the Black Hand who assassinated Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife on June 28, 1914. This was one of the instigators to WW1. | 0 | |
| 13423441673 | Archduke Franz Ferdinand | Heir to Austrian-Hungarian throne who was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip on June 28, 1914. | 1 | |
| 13423441674 | Woodrow Wilson | President of the U.S and one of the leaders of the Paris Peace Conference. He believed that no one country should be severely punished or greatly rewarded. He also believed that conquered peoples had the right to their own fate and created the League of Nations. | 2 | |
| 13423441675 | David Lloyd George | Prime minister of Great Britain and one of the leaders of the Paris Peace Conference. He supported Clemenceau's ideas and often acted as an intermediary between the two differing points of view. | 3 | |
| 13423441676 | Georges Clemenceau | A French statesmen and one of the leaders of the Paris Peace Conference. He believed that France has suffered the most from the war and thus deserved special considerations to be protected from Germany. | 4 | |
| 13423441677 | Vittorio Orlando | Prime minister of Italy and one of the leaders of the Paris Peace Conference. | 5 | |
| 13423441678 | Ho Chi Minh | A young Vietnamese nationalist who requested to speak with Woodrow Wilson about the independence of Vietnam from the French. | 6 | |
| 13423441679 | Black Hand | A nationalist organization devoted to ending Austro-Hungarian presence in the Balkans. A terrorist group from the Austrian-Hungarian perspective. | 7 | |
| 13423441680 | Triple Entente | An alliance group consisting of Britain, France, Russia. After the war began, the alliance group added the U.S, China, and Japan. | 8 | |
| 13423441681 | Allies | This system developed largely because Western European countries became bitter rivals for global domination and was one of the causes of the war. This phrase also characterizes the diverse group of the Triple Entente during the war. | 9 | |
| 13423441682 | Triple Alliance | An alliance group consisting of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy (switched sides later). The Ottoman Empire joined later and the group was known as the Central Powers. | 10 | |
| 13423441683 | Soviet Russia | Later known as the Soviet Union, leaders of this signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany, ending Russia's involvement in the war. It was also not invited to the Paris Peace Conference because it had undergone a Communist revolution. | 11 | |
| 13423441684 | Big Four | Used to describe the leaders of the victorious countries at the Paris Peace Conference. It included Woodrow Wilson (U.S), David Lloyd George (Britain), George Clemenceau (France), and Vittorio Orlando (Italy). | 12 | |
| 13423441685 | Big Three | The main three leaders at the Paris Peace Conference. This consisted of Lloyd George, Wilson, and Clemenceau who were not interested in freeing the colonies. | 13 | |
| 13423441686 | Soviet Union | Also known as Soviet Russia, was not invited to the Paris Peace Conference because it had undergone a Communist revolution. The Chinese turned towards this Marxist model of government. | 14 | |
| 13423441687 | League of Nations | Through this, the Allies established a mandate system to rule the colonies and territories of the Central Powers. It stated that colonized people in Africa/Asia required protection from more "advanced" countries to survive. | 15 | |
| 13423441688 | Weimar Government | The representative democracy instituted in Germany in 1919. Resentment towards this set the stage for the Nazis to take power a couple of years later. | 16 | |
| 13423441689 | Pan-Arabism | An ideology that called for the unification of all lands in North Africa and Southwest Asia. The control of Arab states by Great Britain and France set the stage for this nationalist movement. | 17 | |
| 13423441690 | Zionists | Those who supported a Jewish homeland. The Balfour Declaration stated that Palestine should become a permanent home for the Jews of Europe. | 18 | |
| 13423441691 | May Fourth Movement | Occurred in China after the war. China came into disagreement with Japan about who would reclaim the Shandong Peninsula. This symbolized China's growing nationalism and demand for democracy. Many leaders of the movement joined the Chinese Communist Party. | 19 | |
| 13423441692 | The Great War | Another label for World War I, which lasted from 1914 to 1918. It was labeled like this because of the immense scale of the fighting. It weakened the Western European powers, encouraged the growth of nationalism, and increased the desire for independence in European colonies. | 20 | |
| 13423441693 | Militarism | One of the main causes of World War I. It is defined as aggressive military preparedness and celebrates war/the armed forces. | 21 | |
| 13423441694 | Central Powers | Another name for the Triple Alliance which consisted of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, and later, the Ottoman Empire. The League of Nations established a mandate system to rule the colonies/territories of this alliance. | 22 | |
| 13423441695 | 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. Wilson believed that conquered people under the defeated Central Powers deserved this right. | 23 | |
| 13423441696 | Stalemate | With both the Central Powers and the Allies using brutal weapons/tactics, neither side could defeat the other. The result was a bloody four-year _____ in which suffering and death continued. | 24 | |
| 13423441697 | Lusitania | An ocean liner carrying more than 100 U.S citizens among its passengers. It was attacked by a German submarine on May 7, 1915. | 25 | |
| 13423441698 | Zimmerman Telegram | The event that finally pushed the U.S into the war was the inception of the ________ in January 1917. In this document, the German government offered to help Mexico reclaim territory it lost to the U.S if they became allies. | 26 | |
| 13423441699 | Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | Signed by Soviet Russia in March of 1918 which ended Russia's involvement in WW1. It called for Russia to hand over land to Germany but gave the new Bolshevik government time to concentrate on building a Communist state. | 27 | |
| 13423441700 | Total War | A strategy in which combatant nations committed all of their resources to the war effort. This included the dedication of the domestic population and military. Propaganda was another component of this. | 28 | |
| 13423441701 | Propaganda | Communication meant to influence the attitudes and opinions of a community around a particular subject by spreading inaccurate/slanted information. It was a component of total war and was invested in heavily to depict the enemy crudely. | 29 | |
| 13423441702 | Global War | Used to describe the involvement of many nations in the war. WW1 was fought in Europe, Asia, Africa, and in the Pacific/Atlantic Oceans. | 30 | |
| 13423441703 | ANZAC | A special corps formed by Australian and New Zealand troops. They fought a year-long campaign at Gallipoli. | 31 | |
| 13423441704 | Paris Peace Conference | This was lead by leaders of the victorious countries who became known as the Big Four (U.S, Great Britain, France, Italy). Italy walked out in rage because they did not receive a town (Fiume), which they were promised. Soviet Russia was not invited. | 32 | |
| 13423441705 | Fourteen Points | A document that outlined Woodrow Wilsons principles. For example, he believed that no one country should be severely punished or greatly rewarded. He also wanted to create a League of Nations. | 33 | |
| 13423441706 | Gallipoli | A peninsula in northwestern Turkey. Australian and New Zealand troops fought in a bloody year-long campaign here that resulted in heavy Allied losses with little to show for the effort. | 34 | |
| 13423441707 | Treaty of Versailles | The 1919 peace treaty with Germany. It treated Germany harshly and forced it to pay billions of dollars in reparations, give up all of its colonies, and restrict the size of its armed forces. | 35 | |
| 13423441708 | Reparations | Payment of money for wrongs committed. Germany had to pay these for damages caused by the war and caused sky-high inflation. | 36 | |
| 13423441709 | Decolonization | Nationalists in Africa/Asia hoped that the blood they had shed for their "home countries" would earn them some respect from Western Europe and thus begin a _______ process. | 37 | |
| 13423441710 | Mandate System | Allies ignored all their promises to Arab rebels and through the League of Nations, established this to rule the colonies/territories of the Central Powers. | 38 | |
| 13423441711 | Balfour Declaration | Issued by the British government in 1917 which stated that Palestine should become a permanent home for the Jews of Europe. | 39 | |
| 13423441712 | Palestine | Became a League of Nation mandate, was declared to become a permanent home for the Jews of Europe. | 40 | |
| 13423441713 | Poison Gas | One of the most insidious weapons of the new style of warfare. Chlorine, phosgene, and mustard gas were used during WW1. The effects of these attacks could be extremely painful and long-lasting. | 41 | |
| 13423441714 | Machine Guns | Could fire more than 500 rounds of ammunition per minute, increasing the deadly impact of warfare. This weapon made it difficult for either side in a battle to gain new territory. | 42 | |
| 13423441715 | Tanks | Allowed armies to move across vast areas of difficult terrain, even over trenches. | 43 | |
| 13423441716 | Submarines | They played a large role in the war, causing havoc on the shipping lanes of the Atlantic Ocean. There were many of these underwater attacks between the Germans and the British. | 44 | |
| 13423441717 | Airplanes | In 1914 they were still light/small and unable to carry many weapons. They did not present much of a threat and were instead used to carry on observation of enemy lines. | 45 | |
| 13423441718 | Trench Warfare | A system in which long ditches were dug in the ground with the excavated earth banked in front to defend against enemy fire. They were often cold, wet, muddy, and rat-infested. Soldiers slept, ate, and fought here for months at a time and many died of disease. This system made it so no one could win. | 46 | |
| 13423441719 | U-boat | Submarines that the Germans used to attack other ships. Attacks on American ships caused resentment with the Germans. | 47 | |
| 13423441720 | Influenza Epidemic | Pandemic War-related deaths continued past Armistice Day in the form of the _______. A disease might devastate a concentrated group of people in a particular region. When soldiers returned home, they spread the flu which killed 20 million people. | 48 | |
| 13423441721 | Pandemic | A disease prevalent over a large area or the entire world. The Influenza Epidemic in 1919 became a _____, killing 20 million people in Europe, the U.S, etc. | 49 | |
| 13423441722 | Soviets | Groups of workers or soldiers led by socialists. They were vying for political power outside of the Russian parliament (Duma) which promised the Russian people reforms (land redistribution, better educational opportunities). | 50 | |
| 13423441723 | Bolsheviks | A party of radical socialists that seized power in November 1917. They were led by Vladimir Lenin who promised "peace, land, and bread" to hungry Russians. | 51 | |
| 13423441724 | Lost Generation | First used to describe American writers living in Paris after the war but came to be used more broadly to describe those suffering from the shock of the war. | 52 | |
| 13423441725 | Armenians | The Ottoman government claimed that the minority group was cooperating with the Russian army. To punish them, the Ottoman government deported them from their homes and forced them south to camps in Syria and Mesopotamia. Many died because of starvation, disease, exposure to elements, and some were executed by Turkish troops. | 53 | |
| 13452794734 | Genocide | Deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group | 54 | |
| 13452794735 | Armistice Day | November 11, 1918; Germany signed an armistice (an agreement to stop fighting); this US holiday is now known as Veterans Day | 55 | |
| 13452846823 | Secret Alliances | When nations joined together to support each other. Was originally meant to keep peace, but instead pushed nations into WWI. Triple Entente Vs. Triple Alliance | 56 | |
| 13457364481 | Genocide | Deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group | 57 |
