This is the policy of American journalists exaggerating stories about Spanish atrocities in Cuba to get America to go to war with Spain and sell more newspapers
What is Yellow Journalism
100
Arms Race or building up the army and getting ready for war
What is Militarism
100
This was the area between trenches where soldiers were easy targets for their enemies
What is No Man's Land
100
Americans became angered with the Germans after a German submarine destroyed this passenger liner killing 128 Americans
What is the Lusitania
100
This was a movement where hundreds of thousands of African Americans moved from the South to Northern Cities in search of better job opportunities
What is the Great Migration
200
This criticized President McKinley by calling him a weak leader
What is the De Lome Letter
200
Expanding colonial empires in search of raw materials and other supplies to make the country stronger
What is Imperialism
200
Besides new weapons of warfare, soldiers had to contend with these rodents in the millions
What are rats
200
British Propaganda exaggerated stories about German soldiers committing violent acts such as killing babies and abusing women in this country
What is Belgium
200
This was the main goal of President Woodrow Wilson issuing his 14 points speech
What is to prevent another war
300
This ship mysteriously blew up in Havana Harbor in Cuba and Spain was blamed for the explosion
What is the U.S.S. Maine
300
Having great pride in your country and willing to go to war for it.
What is Nationalism
300
These were five new weapons of warfare introduced during World War I
What is tank, airplane, poison gas, machine gun, flamethrower, hand grenade
300
In this document, a German minister proposed to Mexico that if the U.S. should enter the war, that Mexico should enter into an Alliance with Germany and attack the U.S. In return, Mexico would get land back they had lost to the America in previous wars
What is the Zimmerman Note
300
Most allied leaders wanted the peace treaty to do this to Germany
What is Punish Them
400
This American Commodore won a great victory at Manila Bay in the Philippines against the Spanish
Who is George Dewey
400
Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy formed this alliance
What is the Triple Alliance
400
Soldiers feared using Poison Gas during the war for this reason.
What is if wind shifted, it could hurt their own men
400
This pact made between the U.S. and Germany said that Germany would no longer sink American ships without warning if the U.S. would promise to encourage England to pull back its blockade
What is the Sussex Pledge
400
This organization had the purpose of promoting the war in America during World War I
What is the Committee on Public Information (CPI)
500
American journalists accused Spanish soldiers of commtting these acts against Cubans
What is feeding them to sharks and forcing them to drink poison
500
The Spark! or the event that triggered the start of World War I
What is the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary
500
This battle during the war had 1 million combined deaths between British and German soldiers
What is the Somme
500
The U.S. officially broke off diplomatic relations with Germany after the Germans resumed this tactic of sinking American ships without warning