WWI STUDYGUIDE

Please use this sheet as your studyguide for the upcoming WWI Test. The purpose of this studyguide is to help focus your studying and it is not, however, the only source nor will the test only have content mentioned here. In addition to this studyguide, please use your notes, textbook (Chpt. 13), videoguides, and homework/handouts to help prepare you for the test. GOOOD LUCK!

What does each word represent in the acronym? Explain each term how it lead to WWI

M

A

N

I

A

Explain what each term/historic figure means and explain significance to WWI

Otto von Bismarck (role with creating alliances)

Franco-Prussian War

Alsace-Lorraine

Wilhelm II

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Franz Joseph

Sarajevo

Gavrilo Princip

Triple Alliance

Dual Alliance

Triple Entente

Treaty of London

Blank Check

Austria-Hungary’s Ultimatum

Von Schlieffen Plan

Belgium

Battle of the Marne

Taxicab Army

Verdun

Battle of the Somme

Western Front

Ottoman Front

Gallipoli

Eastern Front

Nicholas II

Battle of Tannenburg (hint: look in your video notes)

Advantage of Russian military

Disadvantages of Russian military

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Russian Revolution

Lusitania

Zimmerman Note

Sussex Pledge

Woodrow Wilson

Red Barron

Big Bertha

U-Boat

Annie Oakley

Most important weapon of WWI

Other technological breakthroughs during WWI:

Propaganda’s role in war

Trench warfare

No Man’s Land

Going “over the top”

War of attrition

Battle of Amiens

Date of the Armistice:

Paris Peace Conference

Versailles Treaty

Big Four:

1. George Clemenceau

a. general desires:

i. why?

2.___________________________

a. general desires:

i. why?

3.____________________________

a. general desires:

i. why?

4. Woodrow Wilson

a. general desires:

i. why?

14 Points- list what issues were brought up

League of Nations

OUTCOME of the PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE:

Germany:

Britain:

France:

U.S.:

Italy:

Costs of War:

Lives:

Monetary:

Political:

Social:

How did WWI lead into WWII?

Armenian Genocide