World War I/Economics
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1.
airplanes
4.
Archduke
Franz
Ferdinand
used as weapons during WWI to fire machine
guns, fight, and drop bombs/poison gas on the
enemy
2.
heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne whose
assassination by a Serbian led to war
*Austria-Hungary used his assassination as an
excuse to declare war on Serbia to gain land and
protect trade routes.
alliance
5.
Central
Powers
agreement among nations to defend one another
3.
Allied
Powers
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Ottoman
Empire
6.
competition
Great Britain, France, Russia, Serbia
happens when more than one business tries to
sell the same products
7.
entrepreneurship
11.
isolationism
risking money to improve and expand a
business
8.
factories
policy of not being involved in the affairs of
other nations
*The U.S. wanted to remain neutral and not
get involved in other countries' affairs because
we didn't want to have our men die for a war
that wouldn't benefit us.
12.
League of
Nations
Place where women went to work during
WWI and took over jobs that men had
done.
9.
Flander's Fields
International peacekeeping organization to
prevent a war from ever happening again.
13.
Lusitania
poem that encouraged soldiers to keep
fighting and win the war so the dead
could rest in peace knowing they had
fought for a purpose
10.
1915 British steamship torpedoed by German
submarine; 100 citizens killed
14.
incentive
reason to do something
National
Labor
Review
Board
settled disputes between workers and company
owners
15.
nationalism
18.
Reasons
U.S.
Entered
WWI
love of country and willingness to sacrifice for
it
16.
USA broke its' policy of isolationism and entered
WWI to fight along with the Allied Powers for
several reasons:
1) a German submarine sank the British
steamship Lusitania and killed over 100 U.S.
citizens
2) Germany promised to help Mexico get back
lands it had lost to the U.S.
3) Germany sank 3 U.S. commercial ships
sending supplies to Europe
productivity
19.
Treaty of
Versailles
improving capital goods (equipment and
training employees) increases what businesses
can produce
17.
propaganda
posters
ended the war and severely punished Germany
with loss of land, reparations (heavy fines), and
they could not rebuild their army
20.
trenches
encouraged patriotism during the war
soldiers dug these to protect themselves from
machine gun fire; could go hundreds of miles;
were often cold, muddy, rat infested and gave no
protection from poison gas.
21.
Uncle
Sam
Posters
24.
persuaded young men to join the army
*U.S. soldiers had an advantage over soldiers from
other countries since they had not been beaten down
by 3 years of war
22.
President who (1917) asked congress to declare
war on the Central Powers
25.
World
War I
war
bonds
gave the government money to pay for the war with
the promise to repay it after the war was over
23.
Woodrow
Wilson
war
gardens
People started growing these to provide food for
their families during WWI.
A war between the allied powers and the central
powers from 1914 to 1918. Nationalism, rivalry,
and alliances created the tension between
countries that ultimately led to war.
*Germany (Central Powers) and Russia (Allied
Powers) went to war with each other to protect
their alliances and trade routes.