Term 3 history final

• Unrestricted Submarine Warfare


  The use of submarines to sink without warning any ship found in an enemy's waters
• Zimmerman Telegram


  A telegram from Germany to Mexico offering Mexico a return of territory in exchange for declaring war on the United States
• The Sinking of the Lusitania

  • British passenger liner that set sail from New York carrying American citizens
  • It was sunk on May 7, 1915 off the coast of Ireland
  • 1,198 lost; 128 US citizens
• Zimmerman Telegram


  1. March 1917 The Zimmermann telegram released

  2. If the U.S. entered War against Central Powers, Mexico should attack the U.S. and receive as a reward: Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona
• German action


  Pushed the US closer to war
• The British decoded a telegram from Germany's foreign secretary 'Arthur Zimmerman' to Mexico, asking them to declare war on USA
• The 2 nations (US and Britain) shared the same language and ancestry
• America's economic ties with the allies were stronger than those with Germany
• US entered the war beside the Allied Power
• President Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of war

  April 2, 1917
• Congress declares war


  April 6, 1917
• Treaty of Versailles


  A treaty that ended WWI, took place in Paris, and required Germany to pay huge war reparation and established the League of Nations
• Fourteen Points


  President Woodrow Wilson plan for organizing a world peace or avoiding future wars
• League of Nations


  An international body of nations formed after WWI, to prevent future wars
• Versailles


  A famous palace near Paris
• Treaty


  An agreement between nations
• Delegate


  A person representing a country at a conference
• Mandate


  Territories (countries) that the League of Nations gave to the Europeans to rule after WWI. (Countries such as: Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Palestine…)
• Disarmament


  Term used when countries agree to reduce their weapon
• Balfour Declaration


  A statement issued by the British foreign secretary (Arthur Balfour) to help the Jewish establishing their homeland in Palestine
• More than 32 delegates met at the Paris Peace Conference
• Most important men at the conference

  • David Lloyd George
  • George Clemenceau
  • Woodrow Wilson
  • Vittorio Orlando
• David Lloyd George represented Great Britain in the Conference
• Vittorio Orlando represented Italy
• Self-determination


  The right of nations or people to choose or elect their own government
• League of Nations


  Where Wilson wanted countries to talk about their problems, instead of going to war
• British aims of the Paris Peace Conference

  • Punish Germany, but keep them strong enough to stop the communism
  • They wanted Germany to pay
  • They were in a mid-point, between US and France
• France aims for the Paris Peace Conference

  • To destroy Germany
  • Germany to pay the war costs
  • They wanted to punish Germany
  • To revenge from Germany
• Italian aims of the Paris Peace conference


  • They hoped to gain colonies and (territories) to their nation
• German hopes for the Conference

  • The terms and conditions of the treaty not to be harsh
• Russia was out because they left WWI without telling their allies (GB, and France)
• Terms of the Treaty

  • Germany and Austria were not allowed to unite
  • Germany's army restricted to 100,000 soldiers
  • Germany blamed for causing World War One
  • Germany lost all its colonies
  • Poland was given access to the sea
  • Germany had to pay reparations
  • Alsace-Lorraine returned to France
  • Austria and Hungary also to pay reparations