World+War+I

__**1914-1918**__  **Dolan & Matt**  "America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us."

-[|Woodrow Wilson]

__**10 Important Terms:**__ __**Top 5 Important People:**__ __**5 Links:**__  **World War I** This link has everything you need to know about World War I. Examples would be like how it started, which countries were fighting, and which weapons were introduced during this war. __**The Lusitania**__ Here is a great website for information on the sinking of the Lusitania. It has information on its maiden voyage, and its last voyage where it was sunk by a German submarine. __**Trench Warfare**__ This site has tons of great information on the horrible life in the trenches. It also has great information on the disease's that were constant in the trenches. __**Weapons of WWI**__ Here is a great link to a website that is full of information on the types of weapons used in WWI. It has information on weapons like bayonetes, poison gas, and rifles. __**America in WWI**__ This site has all of the information your going to want to know about the entrance of The United States in World War I in 1917.
 * **Trench Warfare:** Warfare in trenches where opposing forces faced eachother and were seperated by a piece of land they liked to call "No man's land", which was covered with barbed wire and is a spot where most of the men died while attacking.
 * ** Propaganda: ** Ideas that spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause, this technique caused a lot of hatred of the enemy before the war.
 * ** Total war: ** War that included a complete mobilization of resources and people. This means that the war affects the lives of all citizens in the warring countries, however remote they were from the battlefields.
 * **Armistice:** A truce or agreement to end the fighting that was issued on November 11, 1918 and signed by the new German government.
 * **Reparations:** German payments that were issued by the French government to cover the costs of war, and they were also used to strip Germany of all of its weapons.
 * **Mobilization:** The process of assembling troops and supplies and making them ready for war, this was issued by Czar Nicholas II on July 28 of Russia against the army of Austria-Hungary.
 * **Conscription:** A military draft that had been established as a regular practice in most Western counties before 1914, the United States and Great Britain were the exceptions.
 * **War of Attrition:** This type of war happened after 10 months in Verdun, France, where 700 thousand men lost their lives. It is a type of war where each side tries to wear the other side down and then attack.
 * **Lusitania:** A British ship that was sunk by a German submarine on May 17, 1915. The ship included about 100 Americans and about 1,100 civilians died.
 * **The Black Hand:** A Serbian Nationalist organization that wanted Bosnia to be __free__ of Austria-Hungary and become a part of a large Serbian kingdom.
 * 1) **Archduke Francis Ferdinand:** Assassinated by Gavrilo Princip on June 28, 1914, which started the powder keg of World War I.
 * 2) **Gavrilo Princip:** A 19-year-old Bosnian Serb who succeeded in shooting both the Archduke and his wife. He was a member of the Serbian terrorist organization called the Black Hand.
 * 3) **Woodrow Wilson:** The United States President during The Great War and stayed out of the war until April 1917, when the U.S joined the allied forces.
 * 4) **Emperor William II:** German Emperor who at the very beginning of the war gave Austria-Hungary a blank check saying that they could rely on Germany's full support for war.
 * 5) **Czar Nicholas II:** Russian military leader who ordered the partial mobilization of the Russian army against Austria-Hungary on July 28.









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Timeline: 1. 1882- Triple Alliance forms. 2. 1907- Triple Entente forms. 3. 1914- World War I begins. 4. 1914- Battle of Tannenberg. 5. 1914- Battle of Masurian Lakes. 6. 1915- Lusitania sunk by German forces. 7. 1916- Battle of Somme. 8. 1916- Battle of Verdun. 9. 1917- United States enters the war. 10. 1918- Battle of the Marne.

Before 1914 many people thought that the war was too great a risk for economies, and that the war could be prevented with negotiations. Although, this __idea__ was shut out with the war in August of 1914. The government used propaganda to sway public opinion for the war. This turned the public view towards the idea of war. On the Western Front Germany planned to go around North France and to surround Paris. This was quickly stopped at the First Battle of the Marne. Both sides came to a stand still in the war and used trench warfare to weaken the other side.

The Eastern Front was fought between Germany and Russia. In the beginning of the war Russia moved into Germany, but was stopped at the Battles of Tannenberg and Masurian Lakes. In this time Russia defeated Austria. Italy also joined the Triple Entente durring this time. Germany and Austria joined by Bulgaria eliminated Serbia from the war. This success then allowed them to move their forces back to the Western Front.

The war was mainly fought in trenches across both fronts. The trenches held troops, supplies, and machine guns. Either side would take turns charging other trenches. They also bombed the other trenches with artillery. The war was also fought in the air. They mounted guns on modern airplanes. The Germans also used zeppelins or blimps to bomb London and eastern England.