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what were tanks used for |
crossing over no man's land |
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what were the strengths and weaknesses of tanks |
very protective, but were very slow and their treads were broken very easily |
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what were planes used for |
gather information about the enemy and find submarines |
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what were the weaknesses of aviation (4) |
susceptible to ground fire, long training process, no carrying capacity, underpowered engines - not fast |
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strengths of submarines (6) |
surprise attacks, hard to find, small target, easy to maneuver or get away, torpedoes hit below water line, psychological effect |
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weaknesses of submarines (5) |
must surface, cannot armor vessels - thin skinned, very easy to inflict mortal wounds, depth charges, underwater mines, under water detection systems called hydrophones |
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who were the first to use chemical weapons |
germans |
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what were the two chemical weapons |
mustard and chlorine gas |
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strengths of chemical weapons |
extremely debilitating to enemy, difficult for enemy to work in masks |
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weakness of chemical weapons |
hard to control |
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where is the eastern front? |
russia |
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where is the western front? |
france |
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describe russia's army |
huge, but not well equipped or trained |
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battle of tannenburg |
1914 - stops russian advance |
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who was paul von hindenberg |
war hero |
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how many men did russia lose |
over two million |
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russian revolution |
1917 - bolsheviks take power and russia becomes communist (ussr) |
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treaty if brest-litovsk |
1918 - takes ussr out of war and germany only has to fight a one-front war |
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describe trench warfare |
chemical weapons drive men up and out of trenches, fight over feet and inches, constant warfare in one place for 4 years, complete environmental devastation |
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battle of the marne |
1914 - stalemate - trench warfare |
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battle of verdun & the somme |
1916 - german attempt to break french lines - 10 months & over 800,000 dead |
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reasons for u.s. involvement |
inability to stay neutral in thought & action, german unrestricted submarine warfare (lusitania), zimmerman telegraph |
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when did the us join the war? |
1918 - just in time |
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who led the aef |
john j pershing |
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who was the overall allied leader |
marshall ferdinand foch |
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battles of chateau thierry & belleau wood |
1918 - us held off german advance |
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battle of argonne forest |
allied offensive ended wwi (1918) us lost 100,000 |
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who was sgt. alvin york |
war hero |
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369th us infantry |
nicknamed harlem hellfighters, most time in action, french awarded croix de guerre |
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when is armistice day |
november 11, 1918 11th hour of 11th day of 11th month |
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where was the armistice signed |
train car outside of paris |
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what was the powder keg |
balkans were stirring with nationalism and wanted other slavic peoples to throw off austro-hungarian rule |
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where was archduke ferdinand assassinated |
sarajevo bosnia |
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british passenger liner sunk by german u-boats |
lusitania |
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leader of bolsheviks and the new soviet union |
lenin |
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wilsons peace plan for wwi |
14 points |
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main us critic of the treaty of versailles |
lodge |
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another word for a cease-fire |
armistice |
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ads meant to spread info |
propaganda |
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father of communism |
karl marx |
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germany's plan to avoid a 2 front war |
von schlieffen plan |
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telegram sent by germany to mexico encouraging them to attack the usa |
zimmerman |
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type of warfare found on the western front |
trench |
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germany had to pay $32 billion in war __________ |
reparations |
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assasinated archduke ferdinand |
princip |
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first female in congress |
rankin |
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nickname for us soldiers in wwi |
doughboys |
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dispute region between germany and france |
alsace and lorraine |
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prime minister of prussia |
otto von bismarck |
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movement of afam northward for jobs and economic opportunites |
great migration |
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land between enemy trenches |
no man's land |
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royal family of russia |
romanovs |
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head of the food admin |
hoover |
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serbia's big brother |
russia |
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wwi officially starts when this country is invaded |
belgium |
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sales of these were high in the us and financed our WAR EFFORT |
LIBERTY BONDS |
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most important of wilsons 14 points |
no secret alliances, free trade/freedom of the seas, self-determination of nations, league of nations |
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woodrow wilson |
usa |
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david lloyd george |
uk |
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george clemenceau |
france |
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vittorio orlando |
italy |
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who was the odd man out |
wilson |
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what were the details of the treaty of versailles (8) |
9 new nations created, borders shifted, germany must reduce military, germany must pay reparations, allies receive colonies, france received alsace & lorraine, germany must accept the war guilt clause, league of nations |
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most americans __________ the treaty of versailles |
supported |
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which group of americans were concerned about the treaty of versailles? |
isolationists |
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_________ declares war on _________ then ___________ declares war on (first blank) |
a.h. serbia russia a.h. |
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what does ussr stand for |
union of soviet socialist republics |
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what is a soviet |
worker/workers union |
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what book did karl marx write |
communist manifesto |
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why did communism not work in practice |
lenin would take more than everybody else was given for him and his class |
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