Some called it this & some called it “The War To
End All Wars” – it actually STARTED WWII

Impacting Individuals of WWI
• Victor Huerta -- this man overthrew the duly elected government of Mexico in 1913.
• Vladimir Lenin -- Bolshevik leader of Russia
• Franz Ferdinand -- Arch Duke and heir to the Serbo-Austrian
Empire. Assassinated by Bosnian terrorist in 1914
• J. Edgar Hoover -- head of the FBI
• John J. Pershing -- Commander of troops in Mexico and WWI
• Bernard Baruch -- Director of the War Industries Board

He led the communist takeover in Russia

Factors That Helped Start WWI
Zimmerman Telegram -- A telegram
Germany Sent to Mexico to convince
Mexico to attack the U.S.
Sussex Pledge -- 1916 Germans promised not to have any more surprise attacks on any ships

THE ACTUAL ZIMMERMAN TELEGRAM
Things were tense on this date in 1917. This is what actually thrust the USA into WWI

THE ECONOMICS ($) OF WWI
• War Industries Board -- had control over raw materials, production, prices, labor relations
• National War Labor Board -- A board that negotiated labor disputes that would disrupt the war
• Committee on Public Information -- Responsible for maintaining support for the war
• Liberty and Victory Bonds -- Bonds sold to Americans that were really a loan to the government

PROMOTIONS OF WAYS TO PAY FOR WWI

TAKING SIDES DURING WWI
• Triple Alliance -- Alliance between Germany, Italy, Austria
Hungry
• Central Powers -- Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman
Empire, and Bulgaria
• Allied Forces -- Britain, France Italy, Russia, USA
• Balkans -- a region in south eastern Europe where tension began rising in WWI
• Bolsheviks -- A communist group seeking control of the
Russian government

JOINING IN THE FIGHT OF WWI
• No Man's Land -- A strip of land between the trenches of opposing armies along the Western Front during
WW1
• doughboys -- American Soldiers
• selective Service -- required all men from ages 21 to 30 to register for the military draft
• Conscription -- A forced enlistment of citizens of a country to fight for their country.
• U-Boats -- German submarines

“Over The Top” (out of the trenches) & into
NO MAN’S LAND often meant certain death

MISCELLANEOUS (extra) TERMS:
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• Contraband -- Prohibited Materials
•
• Convoy -- a group that travels with something
•
• espionage -- spying to acquire secret government information
• Nationalism -- Feeling of intense loyalty and devotion to a nation

The USA “I Want You!” enlistment posters copied this original British join-the-army slogan

ENDING WWI
• Treaty of Brest-Litsvok -- Ended russian involvement in
WWI
• The Treaty of Versailles -- the agreement ending WWI
• League of Nations -- an association of nations organized to preserve peace and prevent future wars.
• 14 Points -- Wilson plan for ending WWI
• Reparations -- Payment for damages after a war
• Armistice -- a cease fire that ends military conflict

Prime Minister of France Georges Clemenceau
(right) signs the Treaty of Versailles, an agreement of peace that officially ended World War I