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| 133580964 | Submarine Warfare | what brought US into war; Germany began to use subs to sink British merchant ships; sinks civilian passenger line; promises to stop using subs but eventually starts to use again | 0 | |
| 133580965 | Lusitania | American boat that was sunk by the German U-boats; made America consider entering WWI | 1 | |
| 133580966 | Woodrow Wilson | U.S. President, who led USA into WWI. He proposed the 14 points. He attended the peace conference at Versailles. | 2 | |
| 133580967 | Great Easter Rebellion | Irish try to stop British rule in Ireland april 1916 | 3 | |
| 133580968 | armistice | a state of peace agreed to between opponents so they can discuss peace terms | 4 | |
| 133580969 | Influenza Pandemic | 1918 global outbreak of influenza, a highly contagious viral infection, killing as many as 30 million people worldwide, which was more lives than even the great War took. | 5 | |
| 133580970 | Paris Settlement | At the initial Paris Peace Conference in 1919 Britain and France, the victorious allies, were more concerned with adjusting their differences and harmonizing their territorial appetites than with a just and durable final settlement. the Paris conference was a political disaster; it sowed the seeds of future conflicts in the region. | 6 | |
| 133580972 | Clemenceau | the premier of France; wanted Germany stripped of all weapons, vast German payments to cover the costs of the war, and a separate Rhineland as a buffer state between France and Germany (at the Paris Peace Conference) | 7 | |
| 133580973 | Lloyd George | the prime minister of Great Britain; platform was to make the Germans pay for WWI (at the Paris Peace Conference) | 8 | |
| 133580974 | Wilson's Fourteen Points | In January 1918, President Wilson outlined a peace plan with fourteen points, including no secret diplomacy, freedom of the seas, free trade, arms reduction, non colonization, and national self-determination. Wilson visualized peace for the future of all countries. | 9 | |
| 133580975 | Treaty of Versailles | Created by the leaders victorious allies Nations: France, Britain, US, and signed by Germany to help stop WWI. The treaty 1)stripped Germany of all Army, Navy, Airforce. 2) Germany had to repair war damages(33 billion) 3) Germany had to acknowledge guilt for causing WWI 4) Germany could not manufacture any weapons. | 10 | |
| 133580976 | Ataturk | "Father of the Turks" who helped to create Republic of Turkey and wanted to modernize [westernize] Turkey as well as separate religion and government and the right to vote for women. | 11 | |
| 133580977 | League of Nations | A world organization established in 1920 to promote international cooperation and peace. It was first proposed in 1918 by President Woodrow Wilson, although the United States never joined the League. Essentially powerless, it was officially dissolved in 1946. | 12 | |
| 133580978 | collective security | a system in which a group of nations acts as one to preserve the peace of all | 13 | |
| 133580979 | self-determination | the ability of a government to determine their own course of their own free will- created a new European map when new countries such as Poland and Yugoslavia gained independence. | 14 | |
| 133580980 | Mandate System | Allocation of former German colonies and Ottoman possessions to the victorious powers after World War I, to be administered under League of Nations supervision. British took over Palestine and Iraq and French take Syria and Lebanon. | 15 |
