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WWI
World War One
Question | Answer |
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Wilson's justification for the war showing his belief that, after the war, a new international peace would arise with liberty for new nations | Make the world safe for democracy |
Promise by Germans to stop sinking passenger vessels after sinking this vessel during WWI | Sussex Pledge |
Part of the Versailles Treaty in Article 231 that forced Germany to accept total responsibility for WWI | War Guilt Clause |
List of Wilson's goals for a post-war world such as open treaties, freedom of the seas, arms reduction, free trade, self determination and a new international organization to maintain the peace | Fourteen Points |
Telegram from Germany to Mexico, intercepted by the British, proposing that Mexico should attack the US if the US should enter WWI against Germany | Zimmermann Note |
As part of the Versailles Treaty, this established that France, Japan, and Brtain would administer Germany's former colonies | Mandate System |
Alliance of Germany, Austria, and Hungary before WWI | Triple Alliance |
Agreements between countries for mutual defense; felt that this would ensure postwar world order | Collective security |
The principle that every nationality would get their own country; after WWI led to the creation of Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Finland | Self Determination |
Those in Congress who felt that the US should not join the League of Nations under any circumstances | Irreconcileables |
part of the Covenant of the League of Nations that stated that if one country was involved in a confrontation, other nations would support it | Article Ten |
Sums that Germany was forced to pay after WWI; led to Germany's economic downfall after the war, thus allowing the rise of Hitler | Reparations |
Controlled raw materials, production, prices, and labor relations during WWI | War Industries Board |
Those in Congress who felt the US could join the League if Article X were removed | Reservationists |
The Germans believed that they could achieve victory before the Americans entered the war so they announced that they would sink all ships without warning | Unrestricted submarine warfare |
Call by Woodrow Wilson to stop the conflict based on a balance of power and to form a a peace in which nation would work together to keep the peace | Peace without victory |
Sunk by the Germans killing Americans aboard; led many Americans to believe we should get involved in WWI | Lusitania |
Propaganda effort established to build support for the Allies among Americans and to demonize the Germans | Creel Committee |
Alliance between Britain, France, and Russia before WWI | Triple Entente |