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What event caused WWI? |
the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne |
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Why did Italy switch sides from the bad/good? |
They were offered a part of Austria-Hungary. |
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Name the Allied Powers. |
Britain, France, Russia, and the United States. |
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Name the central powers. |
Germany, the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria. |
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What two things got the United States involved in WWI? |
The Zimmerman telegram, and the sinking of an unarmed French boat, the Sussex |
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What is government propaganda? |
Persuasion. |
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Why did Russia leave the war early? |
Russian Revolution that created communism to be started. |
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What's a stalemate? |
A tie. |
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What were some modern weapons used during WWI? |
New machine guns, aircraft carriers, advancements in versions of gas, trench warfare, tanks and etc. |
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The Treaty of Versailles ended the war in a bad way for who? |
Germany due to the blank statement. |
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What were 3 problems of the Treaty of Versailles? |
Crippled Germany too much. Italy didn't get the land they were promised. Japan wasn't looked at as a national power from their support during the war. |
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What happened to the Ottoman Empire? |
They were divided. |
