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World War I Begins
CHAPTER 19, SECTION 1 of "The Americans" by McDougal Littell
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11th Grade
02/02/2010

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HOW DID NATIONALISM HELP TO IGNITE THE WAR IN EUROPE?
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WHAT LED TO COMPETITIVE AND ANTAGONIST RIVALRIES AMONG THE NATIONS?
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HOW DID IMPERIALISM HELP TO IGNITE THE WAR IN EUROPE?
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WHAT IS THE TERM USED TO DESCRIVE THE COMPETITION BETWEEN GERMANY VS. FRANCE AND BRITAIN FOR COLONIES?
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HOW DID MILITARISM HELP TO IGNITE THE WAR IN EUROPE?
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WHAT IS THE TERM USED TO DESCRIBE BRITISH AND GERMAN SHIPYARDS COMPETING TO BUILD THE LARGEST BATTLESHIP AND DESTROYERS?
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HOW DID ALLIANCES HELP TO IGNITE THE WAR IN EUROPE?
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WHAT PROVIDED A MEASURE OF INTERNATIONAL SECURITY BECAUSE NATIONS WERE RELUCTANT TO DISTURB THE BALANCE OF POWERS?
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WHAT OCCURRED IN THE ASSASSINATION OF ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND (AN AUSTRIAN HEIR)?
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WHO DID GAVRILO PRINCIP (SERBIAN NATIONALIST) SHOOT WHILE HE VISITED BOSNIA?
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WHY DID THE NATURALIZED CITIZENS TEND TO OPPOSE U.S. PARTICIPATION IN THE WAR?
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WHO FOLLOWED THE WAR CLOSELY BECAUSE THEY STILL HAD TIES TO THE NATIONS FROM WHICH THEY EMIGRATED?
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WHY DID THE SOCIALISTS TEND TO OPPOSE THE U.S. PARTICIPATION IN THE WAR?
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WHO CRITICIZED THE WAR AS A CAPITALIST AND IMPERIALIST STRUGGLE BETWEEN GERMANY AND ENGLAND TO CONTROL MARKETS AND COLONIES IN CHINA, AFRICA, AND THE MIDDLE EAST?
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WHY DID THE PACIFISTS TEND TO OPPOSE THE U.S. PARTICIPATION IN THE WAR?
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WHO BELIEVED WAR WAS EVIL AND THAT THE UNITED STATES SHOULD SET AND EXAMPLE OF PEACE TO THE WORLD?
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WHY DID THE PARENTS OF AMERICA TEND TO OPPOSE THE U.S. PARTICIPATION IN THE WAR?
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WHO DID NOT WANT THEIR SONS TO EXPERIENCE THE HORRORS OF WARFARE?
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HOW DID BRITAIN ENCOURAGE U.S. PARTICIPATION IN THE WAR?
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WHO'S BLOCKADE THREATENED FREEDOM OF THE SEAS AND PREVENTED AMERICAN GOODS FROM REACHING GERMANY PORTS?
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HOW DID GERMANY ENCOURAGE U.S. PARTICIPATION IN THE WAR?
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WHOSE U-BOAT SANK THE BRITISH LINER, LUSITANIA, WHICH BOARDED AMERICANS THAT DIED ALONG WITH THE OTHERS?
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HOW DID RUSSIA ENCOURAGE U.S. PARTICIPATION IN THE WAR?
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WHO'S MONARCHY WAS REPLACED WITH A REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT WHICH AMERICAN WAR SUPPORTERS CLAIM THAT THIS WAS A WAR OF DEMOCRACIES AGAINST BRUTAL MONARCHIES?
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WHO ARE THE ALLIES?
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WHAT IS THE TERM USED TO DESCRIBE THE TRIPLE ENTENTE WHICH CONSISTED OF FRANCE BRITAIN AND RUSSIA?
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WHO ARE THE CENTRAL POWERS?
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WHAT IS THE TERM USED TO DESCRIBE THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE WHICH CONSISTED OF GERMANY, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, AND THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE?
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WHAT IS "NO MAN'S LAND" ?
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WHAT IS A BARREN EXPANSE OF MUD POCKMARKED WITH SHELL CRATERS AND FILLED WITH BARBED WIRE BETWEEN TRENCH COMPLEXES?
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WHAT IS TRENCH WARFARE?
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WHAT IS THE TERM USED TO DESCRIBE WHEN ARMIES FOUGHT FOR MERE YARDS OF GROUND?
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WHAT IS THE ZIMMERMANN NOTE?
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WHAT IS A TELEGRAM FROM THE GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER TO THE GERMAN AMBASSADOR IN MEXICO THAT WAS INTERCEPTED BY BRITISH AGENTS?
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WHAT ARE THE FOUR CAUSES OF THE WAR?
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HOW DO THE TERMS NATIONALISM, IMPERIALISM, MILITARISM, AND ALLIES RELATE TO THE WAR?
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WHAT IS NATIONALISM?
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WHAT IS THE DEVOTION TO INTERESTS AND CULTURE OF ONE'S NATION?
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WHAT DID NATIONALISM LEAD TO?
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WHAT LEAD TO COMPETITION AND ANTAGONISM BETWEEN NATIONS?
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WHY DID MANY FEAR GERMANY?
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WHO WAS GROWING POWER IN EUROPE?
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WHAT DID VARIOUS ETHNIC GROUPS RESENT AND WANT?
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WHO RESENTED DOMINATION AND WANTED INDEPENDENCE?
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WHO DOES RUSSIA CONSIDER THEMSELVES AS PROTECTORS OF?
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WHO CONSIDERS THEMSELVES AS THE PROTECTORS OF ALL SLAVIC PEOPLE?
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WHAT IS MILITARISM?
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WHAT IS THE DEVELOPMENT OF ARMED FORCES AND THEIR USE IN DIPLOMACY?
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BY 1890 WHAT DID GERMANY HAVE AMONGST THE OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES?
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WHO HAD THE STRONGEST ARMY ON EUROPEAN CONTINENT BY 1890?
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WHAT DOES GERMANY COMPETE WITH BRITAIN FOR AND WHAT IS THE OUTCOME?
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WHO COMPETES WITH BRITAIN FOR SEA POWER WHICH LEADS OTHER POWERS TO JOIN A NAVAL ARMS RACE?
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WHAT IS THE BALKAN PENINSULA ALSO KNOWN AS AND WHY?
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WHO IS KNOWN AS "THE POWDER KEG OF EUROPE" BECAUSE THERE WAS ETHNIC RIVALRIES AMONG BALKAN PEOPLES?
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WHAT DID LEADING POWERS HAVE?
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WHO HAD ECONOMIC POLITICAL INTERESTS?
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WHO DOES AUSTRIA-HUNGARY DECLARE WAR ON?
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WHO IS SERBIA DECLARED WAR BY?
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WHICH COUNTRIES WERE ALLIES DURING WORLD WAR I (NAME ALL) ?
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WHAT WERE THE FOLLOWING COUNTRIES' (FRANCE; UNITED KINGDOM; ITALY; JAPAN; GREECE; RUSSIA; PORTUGAL; AND ROMANIA) POSITIONS DURING WORLD WAR I?
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WHICH COUNTRIES WAS NEUTRAL DURING WORLD WAR I (NAME ALL) ?
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WHAT WERE THE FOLLOWING COUNTRIES' (SPAIN; NORWAY; BELGIUM; SWITZERLAND; SWEDEN; AND DENMARK) POSITIONS DURING WORLD WAR I?
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WHICH COUNTRIES WERE CENTRAL POWERS DURING WORLD WAR I (NAME ALL) ?
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WHAT WERE THE FOLLOWING COUNTRIES' (AUSTRIA-HUNGARY; GERMANY; BULGARIA; AND TURKEY) POSITIONS DURING WORLD WAR I?
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WHAT ARE THE FOUR MAIN REASONS MOST PEOPLE WANTED TO REMAIN NEUTRAL?
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FEELINGS THAT IT WAS NOT OUR FIGHT, CLAIMING EUROPE WAS TOO FAR AWAY, REASONING THAT WAS WAS TOO EXPENSIVE, AND THE DIVISION OF LOYALTIES SINCE WE TRADED WITH BOTH GERMANY AND GREAT BRITAIN (AND FRANCE) AND NOT WANTING TO SEVER TIES WITH EITHER ONE BY FIGHTING AGAINST THEM ARE REASONS FOR?
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WHY DID THE U.S. MOBILIZED FOR WAR AGAINST CENTRAL POWERS IN 1917?
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WHO WANTED TO ENSURE ALLIED REPAYMENT OF DEBTS AND PREVENT GERMANS THREAT TO U.S. SHIPPING?
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WHAT WAS THE BRITISH BLOCKADE?
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WHO MINED THE NORTH SEA AND STOPPED WAR SUPPLIES (INCLUDING FOOD AND FERTILIZER) FROM REACHING GERMANY?
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WHAT WAS THE LUSITANIA?
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WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE BRITISH PASSENGER SHIP SUNK BY GERMAN U-BOAT?
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DID WE GO TO WAR BECAUSE OF THE LUSITANIA?
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WHAT ANGERED MANY AMERICANS BUT DID NOT CAUSE US TO JOIN THE WAR UNTIL TWO YEARS LATER?
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WHO RAN FOR PRESIDENT IN 1916?
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WHEN DID WOODROW WILSON (DEMOCRATIC) AND EVAN HUGHES (REPUBLICAN) RUN FOR PRESIDENT?
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WHO WON THE PRESIDENT ELECTION OF 1916?
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WHEN DID WOODROW WILSON WIN THE ELECTION DURING THIS TIME?
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WHAT DID WOODROW WILSON CALL FOR WHEN HE TRIED TO MEDIATE WITH GERMANY?
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WHO CALLED FOR "PEACE BETWEEN EQUALS" AND TO WHOM?
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DID GERMANY STOP SINKING UNARMED AMERICAN MERCHANT SHIPS?
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WHO DID NOT STOP SINKING UNARMED AMERICAN SHIPS?
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WHY DID WILSON CALL FOR WAR?
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WHO WANTED TO MAKE THE WORLD "SAFE FOR DEMOCRACY" ?
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