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Triple Entente contained who? |
Great Britain, Russia, France, US |
Allied Powers |
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The Triple Alliance contained who? |
Germany, Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungary |
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What were the MAIN causes of the war? |
Militarisation Alliances Imperialism Nationalism |
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Trench Warfare |
Fighting from ditches protected by barbed wire. Land in between them was called No Man's Land |
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What's significant about the machine gun? |
Deadliest weapon of the war |
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Name the weapon responsible for making the war global |
Submarines (U Boats) |
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This country took the blame for the war and had to pay 6.6 billion dollars in reparations. Name the country and define reparations |
Germany;payment for all war damages |
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Why was the US's Entry into the was so important? |
Lifted British and French morale |
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Once the western front reached a stalemate what type of warfare was started? |
Trench |
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List three things that happened as a cause of the Treaty of Versailles |
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True or False: Turkey believes the Armenian Genocide happened |
False, they don't believe the death marches and suffocations happened. |
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Why did Russia withdrawal from the war? What was the result? |
In 1917, they left because of internal problems. The result was Germany and Austria gained lots of Russia's land. |
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How did the Ottoman Empire fall? |
T.E. Lawrence encouraged Arabian nations to rebel and the empire fell from within |
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Why did the US join the war? |
The sinking of the Lusitania, and 3 other merchant trips as well as the Zimmerman Note which encouraged Mexico to attack the US from Germany. They joined in 1917. |
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