Unit 1 WW1

• What was the date that the Louisianan was attacked?

  may 7th 1915
• What were the elements so they attack happened?


  Message, fog, scared to get caught
• What was the size of the hole in the Lusitania?


  40 X 15 or the size of a small house
• Who was the captain of the Louisianan?

  Captain Turner
• What did the Germans sent to the USA?

  A message in the newspaper
• Why did the war happen?

  Bc we took bags (mail) to get to German enemy.
• Who were the center powers?

  Germany, Austria Hungary, and Ottoman
• Who were the triple Entente?


  UK, France, Russia
• Who were part of the Triple Alliance?

  Germany, Austria Hungary, Italy
• What was the main problem for the trench war fare?

  Trench foot
• How much money did German loss?

  20 billion gold marks = 5 billion US
• Who was the black hand?

  Serbian Nationalist
• Where was it?

  Serbian
• What did Russia loss?

  Coal, oil, iron and 55 millions people
• Longest battle?

  Battle of Verdun = February 21,1916 to December 18, 1916
• Who were the big four?

  President Woodrow Wilson (America), Georges Clemenceau (France), Prime Minister David Lloyd George (Great Britain), Vittorio Orlando (Italy)
• What happened at the Palace of Versailles?

  signed Treaty of Versailles
• what was the telegram?

  Zimmerman
• What was the day the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?

  assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina on June 28, 1914
• Who was the person who killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife?


  The first attempt was with a bomb but missed and then Gavrilo Princip shot him and his wife down an ally (people were angry)
• Treaty of Versailles: What was the cost?

  Lots of land given up and germany felt betrayed
• Treaty of Brest Litovsk: What were the countries negotiating?

  Russians, Germany, Austria Hungary, Ottoman
• Brest Litovsk: What did Russia give up?

  1/3 of the population (55 million people) and Coal, oil, Iron
• What is 14 points?


  an outline for lasting world peace
• Self Determination?


  right of people to govern their own nation
• total war?


  nations devote all resources to war
• Rationing?

  limiting purchases of war-related goods
• Propaganda?


  one side info to build morale and support for the war
• What was the boot in the Trench War Fare?

  pershing Boot
• What fort did Germans wanted to take over?

  Fort Douamount
• Unrestricted Submarine Warfare?


  Sink the ships without any warning
• Who are the Baltic States?

  Estonia, Latvia, Lithuantia, Poland
• Leader of Bolsheviks?


  Vladamir Lenin
• Leader of Russia?


  Czar nicholas 2nd (In two wars and he knew he had to get out)
• Bolsheviks?


  Radical Socialist
• What is the gas they used during trench war fare?

  Mustard Gas