Events
A German U-boat sank this British passenger liner. Nearly 1200 people, including 128 Americans were killed.
What is the Lusitania?
Defending a position by fighting from the protection of deep ditches.
What is trench warfare?
This committee organized rallies and parades, and published posters and pamphlets in "selling" the war to the American people.
What is the Committee on Public Information (CPI)?
This country pulled out of World War I because of food riots, and deaths of millions of their soldiers.
What is Russia?
The peace settlement of World War I
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
German troops crossing into Belgium
What is Britain entering WWI?
A situation in which neither side can win a decisive victory.
What is a stalemate?
This act required men between the ages of 21 and 30 to register to be drafted.
What is the Selective Service Act?
Goods prohibited from shipment to Germany or its allies.
What is contraband?
Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungary, and Germany.
What are the Central Powers?
Proposed an alliance against the U.S. Germany would help Mexico recapture areas that Mexico had lost during the Mexican-American War.
What is the Zimmerman Note?
The aggressive strengthening of armed forces.
What is militarism?
U.S. created this organization to produce and distribute steel, copper, cement and rubber; increased food supplies to troops; guaranteed farmers high prices for their crops.
What is the War Industries Board (WIB)?
Method of loaning money to the government to pay for war.
What is Liberty Bonds?
This country was responsible for reparations after World War I.
What is Germany?
This leader was killed by an assassin. This act sparked World War I.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
Truce between warring nations
What is an armistice
International assembly of nations designed to settle international disputes and encourage democracy.
What is the League of Nations?
Spying to acquire government secrets.
What is espionage?
This Central Power had the most deaths in World War I.
What is Germany?
African Americans moving from the South to Northern cities
What is the Great Migration?
Payments for war damages.
What are reparations?
This board or organization helped workers and management avoid strikes and reach agreements
What is the National War Labor Board?
This organizations effectively silenced criticism of the war at home.
What is the Sedition Act?
This political group took power in Russia and established a Communist government.
Who are the Bolsheviks?