World War I

Read pages 216-221 in your text.  Answer the following questions for this lesson:

1) What did the Serbian Gavrilo Princip do to show his hatred of Austria?
2) How did Austria respond?
3) What side did Russia join?
4) What side did Germany join?
5)Why did Germany then decide to march against France?
6) What side was Belgium on?
7) Why did Great Britain join the fight?
8) What was the name for the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Bulgaria, Germany, and the Ottoman Turks?
9) What was the name for Great Britain, France, Russia, and their allies?
10) What did German ships do?
11) Why did sinking the Lusitania make so many people angry?
12) Why was the United States particularly angry?
13) What law did Great Britain pass in 1916?
14) What did the women do when so many men went off to war?
15) What happened to the British men who went to the front and fought?
16) What reward did Germany promise to Mexico, if the Mexicans would fight on the side of the Germans?
17) What happened to the telegram with this information in it?
18) How did the United States react?
19) In what year did the United States join World War I?

Using Student Page 83 and a clean sheet of paper, try your hand  at decoding the cryptogram.