Midterm+Review+of+World+War+I


 * rationing || Fourteen Points || armistice || alliances || war bonds ||
 * Archduke Franz Ferdinand || Communists || trench warfare || League of Nations || Central Powers ||
 * propaganda || Ethnic || Allies || imperialism || neutral ||
 * Treaty ofVersailles || Germans || unpatriotic || //Lusitania// || Zimmermann telegram ||

Nationalism, feelings of intense loyalty to one's country, __**1**__ militarism, and rival alliances led to international instability in Europe. __**2**__ groups demanded their own nations. In 1914 Gavrilo Princip, a Serbian nationalist, assassinated the Austro-Hungarian heir, __**3**__ and his wife

That act drew nations in rival __**4**__ into war. The __**5**__ were led by Great Britain, France, and Russia; the __**6**__ were led by Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire.Japan, and laterItaly, joined the Allies.

Western Europe endured three years of __**7**__ New weapons, like machine guns and poison gas, caused huge losses. The United States tried to stay **8** Allied __**9**__ -information designed to influence opinion- and trade won American support. Then a German submarine sank the British liner, __**10**__ Among the dead were 128 Americans.

In 1917 the United States intercepted a secret German telegram-the __**11**__ - which promised support to Mexico if it attacked the United States. Spurred by these events, theUnited Statesjoined the Allies onApril 6, 1917. The military drafted 3 million Americans; 2 million others volunteered

__**12**__ overthrew the democratic government in 1917 and took Russia out of the war. American troops helped drive the __**13**__ from France. Germany surrendered, and an __**14**__ -an agreement to stop fighting-was signed on November 11, 1918.

During the course of the war, Americans had bought __**15**__ and endured __**16**__ which limited goods available to consumers.

Opponents of the war were portrayed as 17 Criticizing the government was banned. German Americans were persecuted. President Woodrow Wilson outlined a just peace in his __**18**__ but the Allies wanted revenge

The __**19**__ imposed harsh terms on Germany. The Senate rejected the treaty and refused to join a peacekeeping __**20**__