History Chapter 14: Winning The War

In an attempt to end the war, the fighting countries started to launch what was identified as a total war?

All the world nations, later in 1916, imposed immediate universal military draft, or ______?

______ set up a system of forced civilian labor as well.

On the economic side, in order to help pay the costs of the war, governments ______.

At the start of the war, ______'s navy formed a blockade to keep ships carrying supplies in and out of Germany.

An international law at the time of WWI allowed wartime blockades to confiscate supplies (but not items such as food or clothing).

In spite of the international law, Britain stopped food and clothing from reaching ______ where the situation was getting harder.

Because of not finding resources for food, the German depended on potato, and when the potato crop failed in 1916, the German had to depend on another crop; thus, the winter of 1916 was known as the "_______."

By its turn, Germany used _______ to create its own blockades, declaring that it would sink all ships carrying goods to Russia.

In 1915, a German submarine torpedoed the British liner ______ off the coast of ______. 1200 passengers were killed in the attack. Germany justified the attack by arguing that the ship was carrying weapons.

Since 128 Americans were among the 1200 victims, the American president Woodrow Wilson threatened to cut off diplomatic relations with Germany, the German ______.

In general, _______ is spreading ideas to promote a cause or damage an opposing cause.

The main aims of the Propaganda War were to ______.

The tales, about the German brutality in invading Belgium and other tales about atrocities (horrible acts committed against the innocent), circulated by the British and the French press were ______.

When men left for war, women took the responsibility of working in all fields, even in war industries: manufacturing weapons and supplies. Ladies were growing the nations' food, and nurses were working around the clock in the most horrifying conditions. By doing these missions, women could ______.

Morale of troops and civilians started to collapse because of: war fatigue, long causality lists, failure to win promised victories, reaching the brink of bankruptcy (Britain as an example), and reaching the degree of sending 15-year-old recruits to the front (Germany as an example). What follow are some results of the collapsed morale except ______.

“Stories of incompetent generals at war and the corruption at homeland eroded public confidence in Russia. In 1917, riots in ST. Petersburg erupted into a revolution that brought down the Russian Monarchy.” The outcome of the revolution pleased the Allies since they believed overthrowing the Tsar will result into turning Russia into a democratic country; thus Russia would become a stronger ally, but what happened was what follow except ______.

Another event altered the balance of forces: USA joining the war when it declared war on ______.

Many Americans supported the allies because of what follow except ______.

On the other hand, other Americans favored the Central Power because of more than one reason, among which was ______.

USA declared the war on Germany in 1917 when ______.

The anti- German feeling was intensified in the United States as a result of ______.

The Americans took months to mobilize, for they did not have the intention to join the war at the beginning, but then they helped raise the morale of the Allies troops by ______.

With the hope to be a peacemaker, though failing to keep neutrality, the American president Wilson issued, in 1918, ______ a list of his terms for resolving WWI and future wars.

Some of the terms of what Wilson issued were: ______.

Losing the hope and ability to win the war, with the USA joining the Allies, the German Kaiser ______ was advised to step down. He fled into an exile in ______.

The new German government sought ______ or agreement to end fighting, and in November 1918, the Great War at last came to an end.

Total War

Conscription (Military Draft)

Forced Civilian Labor

War Financing

Blockade (Naval Blockade)

Contraband

Turnip Winter

U-boats (Submarines)

Sinking of the Lusitania

Submarine Warfare Restrictions

Propaganda

Propaganda War (WWI)

War Atrocity Propaganda

Women's Roles in WWI

Collapsed Morale (WWI)

Russian Revolution (1917)

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

US Entry into WWI

American Support for the Allies

American Support for the Central Powers

Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

Zimmermann Telegram

American Mobilization (WWI)

Fourteen Points

Abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II

Armistice

Armistice (WWI)