Lesson 1
Germany had taken the Alsace-Lorraine region from this country in the Franco-Prussian War in 1871
What is France?
These could fire 400 to 600 bullets a minute.
What are machine guns?
This type of building or set of buildings with manufacturing facilities were working nonstop to produce weapons and supplies for the Armed Forces.
What are factories?
A U.S. senator from Massachusetts, he was opposed to President Wilson’s plan for the League of Nations, fearing it would draw the United States into wars not in the nation’s interest.
Who was Henry Cabot Lodge?
A system in which all resources are shared equally.
What is communism?
A new kind of warfare in World War I that involved troops digging and fighting from deep ditch-like holes.
What is trench warfare?
If soldiers were not wearing these, the gas would destroy their lungs, causing slow, painful deaths.
What are gas masks?
These types of people who come to a country to live there had been providing a steady source of labor but now are not coming to the US.
Who are immigrants?
Of the following three countries - Russia, Great Britain, and the US, they suffered the most deaths.
What is Russia?
The leader of the American troops during WWI. (Hint: he grew up on a farm near us in Laclede, Missouri.)
Who was General John J. Pershing?
Slavic country directly to the south of Austria-Hungary which saw as a threat to its unity.
What is Serbia?
Word for the type "warfare" that used poisonous gases that were originally banned but came back into use by both sides by the end of the war.
What is chemical?
The role of women in World War I was much like their roles in previous wars with providing support for male troops. Women drove ambulances and entered the battlefield as this type of job.
What is a nurse or medic?
The world was in for another shock in 1918 when this broke out.
What is a worldwide epidemic of influenza, or flu?
The group that refused to ratify the Treaty of Versailles.
Who is the US Senate?
The Germans had failed to take this city in France NOT NAMED PARIS. At the Somme River, the Allies had advanced just seven miles. Almost nothing had changed on the Western front. But nearly 1 million men had been killed here and on the Somme River.
What is Verdun?
The name for a German submarine.
What is a U-boat?
Social reformer Jane Addams was against U.S. entry into the wa and this lady of Montana, the first female member of Congress, was 1 of 50 House members to cast a vote against declaring war in 1917. “I want to stand by my country,” she said, “but I cannot vote for war.”
Who was Jeannette Rankin?
This group of people spread the influenza epidemic of 1918 which made it so deadly.
Who were soldiers?
This area reached from the Black Sea to the Baltic Sea. Fighting along it was usually between Russian and German forces.
What is the Eastern Front?
Belgian resistance slowed the German advance but could not stop it. On September 3, the German army was just 25 miles from Paris, the capital of France. The French army blocked the German advance at this river, east of Paris. The First Battle of the _______ raged for several days before the Germans were pushed back.
What is the Marne?
These fired shells over the trenches.
What are artillery guns?
A government agency organized to help settle disputes between workers and employers in war industries which was set up by President Wilson in April 1918.
What is the National War Labor Board?
The epidemic in the US started in Kansas; however, this caused 8 million deaths in Spain and spread from there throughout Europe.
What is the Spanish Flu?
On June 28, 1914, this man, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, visited the province’s capital of Sarajevo with his wife, Sophie. While riding through the streets, they were shot and killed by a 19-year-old Serb nationalist.
Who was Archduke Francis Ferdinand?