Unit 7.3 - Conducting WWI Flashcards
Conscriptions
Compulsory enlistment in the armed forces
Pals Battalions
Instead of conscription, Britain used patriotism and recruited these groups of people into their army; men who already knew each other.
Examples (6) of New Military Technologies
Trench warfare, poison gas, machine guns, submarines, airplanes, and tanks
Stalemate
When neither side is able to progress or win
Reasons (4) for U.S. joining the war
Economic ties with the allies, Americans believing the Allies were more democratic than the Central Powers, resentment towards the Germans for their U-Boat that sunk the Lusitania, and intercepting the German Zimmermann Telegram which offered Mexico help in regaining their territory from the U.S. if Mexico helped them in the war
Total War
When a country commits all of its resources, such as the domestic population in addition to the military, towards winning a war
Governments set up…
planning boards; to control production quotas, prices, wages, and the rationing of supplies
Propaganda
The spreading of slanted information to influence the opinions of a community against a subject
Ways (2) WWI was a global war
Many nations all across the world were fighting in the war and they had colonies who also contributed in hopes of self-rule afterward
ANZAC
Special corps made of Australian and New Zealand troops fighting in Gallipoli (peninsula in NW Turkey)
What did President Woodrow Wilson mean, “Peace without victory”?
President Wilson wanted there to be complete peace between nations. That it would not be said that no nation/side outright won or loss, and so no nation would be greatly rewarded or severely punished.
Woodrow Wilson’s views on the treatment of colonies after WWI and did others listen to him?
For colonies under the control of the Central Powers who had loss, President Wilson believed they should have self-determination and be able to decide their political futures for themselves. Although many colonies were snatched up by the Allies, there was also the formation of many new nations after the fall of the Austria-Hungary and Ottoman Empires.
Treaty of Versailles’ Punishment for the Germans (4)
Paying reparations for the war, giving up all its colonies, restricting the size of its army, and taking entire blame fo the war
The Big Four
The four victorious countries whose leaders met at the Paris Peace Conference; Woodrow Wilson (U.S.), David Lloyd George (Great Brit.), Georges Clemenceau (France), and Vittorio Orlando (Italy)
League of Nations
An organization proposed by Woodrow Wilson where all nations would meet to peacefully and openly discuss conflicts, avoiding something like WWI again
