Guided Reading Activity Answers

THE ROAD TO WORLD WAR I –

PART TWO

The Allied Powers

(and pretty much stays the Allied powers in WWII – almost!)

And don’t ask me why they changed names! To confuse us 100+ years later – that’s why

12. TRIPLE ENTENTE BECOMES . . . ?

The Central Powers

(later becomes the Axis Powers in WWII - for my NERDS)

13. TRIPLE ALLIANCE BECOMES . . . ?

Stalemate

Like in chess . . . Or is that checkmate?

Known as “no man’s land” this area was fought on the duration of the war. Which, might explain the high number of deaths and destruction in this part of Europe!

14. WHAT IS A DEADLOCK?

Fighting from a dug-out ditch

15. WHAT IS TRENCH WARFARE?

TRENCH FOOT

AirplanesTanksZeppelins (kind of like blimps)Poison GasGas MasksU-Boats (German submarines)Machine Guns

16. NEW WEAPONS IN THE WAR?

The U-Boat(German Submarine) The Zeppelin

MURDEROUS WEAPONS OF WW I

Biplanes Tanks

MURDEROUS WEAPONS OF WW I

Chlorine gas and other forms of poison gas were fi rst used by the Germans at the Battle of Ypres in France. The weapon was perhaps the most feared of the entire war, because of the gruesome and painful deaths caused by the chemicals – soldiers who inhaled the poison gas would suff er chemical burns of the lungs, then slowly drown as their lungs fi l led up with mucus and fl uids.

CHLORINE GAS

Horses were used during World War I in many capacit ies, and were sti l l rel ied upon heavi ly by cavalry units, supply carriers and ambulance services. They dragged heavy guns into posit ion, moved men and equipment, and l i teral ly saved l ives. Hence, they needed to be protected, too!

GAS MASKS

THE MACHINE GUN

Stay neutral

Why not, right? I mean – what do we have to do with this war? What did anyone but Serbia and Austria-Hungary have to do with the war?

This is easy to do – stay neutral, right?

Umm . . .? ? ?

17. PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON SAYS:

President Wi lson asked Americans to stay neutral in mind as wel l as in act ion. By fol lowing a “str ict and impart ia l neutral i ty,” Americans would be able to stay out of the war and remain unifi ed. Many Americans feared that the mi l l ions of German-American immigrants in our country could prove dis loyal .

PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON

Businesses

They wanted to trade – to make that money!!!

18. WHICH AMERICANS HELD INTEREST IN THE WAR?

Info designed to make people feel passionately about a cause

What is this KIND-OF like from Unit 4?

Where else have you seen or heard the word propaganda? Maybe propo for short?

19. WHAT IS PROPAGANDA?

Propaganda was produced in the United States by an organization known as the Committee on Public Information. Joseph Creel was the leader of the group. Propaganda, in general, is information designed to make people feel passionately about a cause – often using incomplete, exaggerated, or dubious information.

PROPAGANDA

Anti-German Propaganda: Freedom of the Seas:

WORLD WAR I: AMERICAN NEUTRALITY

BOTH – gotta make that money! But they MAINLY traded with the Allies – WE WERE FRIENDS WITH BRITAIN

20. WHAT SIDE DID BUSINESSMEN WANT?

U-Boats

Using their U-boats, Germany established a blockade around all of England to prevent trade between the US and England. They sank any trade vessels they could. English naval vessels, in turn, prevented any trade between the United States and Germany.

21. WHAT HELPED THE BLOCKADE?

Lusitania

22. WHAT BRITISH SHIP WAS SUNK?

AMERICAN PROPAGANDA MAKERS USED THE SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA TO ENCOURAGE

THE WAR EFFORT.

“He Kept Us Out of War.”

23. WILSON MAINTAINS U.S. NEUTRALITY

Attack the United States!

24. WHAT DID GERMANY SAY TO MEXICO?

They will get their land back that the US stole!

In the Zimmermann Telegram, German Secretary of State Arthur Zimmermann suggested that Mexico should attack the United States. His hope was that if the US was occupied at home by a domestic war, they could not enter the war with Germany. In return, Zimmerman promised, they would help Mexico win back the land it had ceded to the United States – New Mexico, Texas and Arizona.

25. HOW WILL THIS BENEFIT MEXICO?

Russia In March 1917, the Tsar Nicholas

II and the Romanov dynasty was overthrown by Revolution. This was a good thing for the US because we didn’t like him – he fought democratic values, and the US wanted to spread democracy. The fall of the Tsar made it easier for the US to enter the war on the alliance with Russia. By joining the war we would not be siding with a tyrant – he was gone! Wilson said we would be joining other democracies to fi ght tyranny! (sounds good, doesn’t it?!)

26. WHAT NATION UNDERWENT A REVOLUTION?

Freedom of the SeasA War To End all WarTo Make the World Safe for Democracy

Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war against the Central Powers in April of 1917, immediately after the Tsar had been overthrown and replaced by the democratically elected Duma. Wilson gave the United States several reasons to fi ght in World War I:

World War I would be a war for “Freedom of the Seas.”World War I would be “A War To End all War.”World War I would be “A War to Make the World Safe for Democracy.”

Since Russia was now democratic as well, all of the All ies – Great Britain, France, Russia, and now the United States – were democratic governments.

27. WHAT WERE WILSON’S GOALS?