War in Europe
People who share a common language and tradition are part of the same one of these.
What is an ethnic group?
A system of government in which one person with unlimited powers rules.
What is an autocracy?
A team, or group, of Navy destroyers that escorted groups of merchant ships across the Atlantic.
What is a convoy?
People opposed to the use of violence.
Who are pacifists?
United States Senator, head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, longtime foe of President Woodrow Wilson, opposed to the treaty that ended World War I.
Who is Henry Cabot Lodge?
The Triple Entente was made up of Britain, France, and this country.
What is Russia?
Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to influence opinion or promote a point of view.
What is propaganda?
This is an agreement to end fighting.
What is an armistice?
This Act provided stiff penalties for spying.
What is the Espionage Act?
This treaty, signed by the Allies (except for the United States) and Germany, ended World War I.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
German weapon that changed the course of the war, just as the survivors of the Lusitania.
What is a U-boat?
British agents intercepted a telegram sent by this German foreign minister to Mexico, offering an alliance if war broke out.
Who is Zimmerman?
Leader of the Bolsheviks, a group of communists who overthrew the Democratic Russian government.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
These are people who believe that industries should be publicly owned.
Who are socialists?
What is self-determination?
This weapon, the most dramatic new weapon of World War I, was used by both sides to watch the movements of enemy troops and bomb targets.
What is the airplane?
This act authorized the United States federal government to raise a national army for service in World War I through conscription, or the draft.
What is the Selective Service Act?
Named Supreme Commander of the American Expeditionary Force (AEC), the American army in Europe, in May 1917.
Who is John J. Pershing?
From 1914 to 1920, between 300,000 and 500,000 African-Americans left their homes in the South to settle in northern cities and find jobs in a movement known as this.
What is the Great Migration?
Payments that Germany had to make for the damage they caused in the war.
What are reparations?
His assassination on June 28, 1914, caused Austria-Hungary to declare war on Serbia.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
More than 1000 people died, including 128 Americans, when a British passenger liner was torpedoed by the Germans in May of this year.
What is 1915?
With the signing of this, Russia lost substantial territory to the Germans, and the Germans were able to concentrate their forces in the West.
What is the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
These two acts, passed in 1918, made it a crime to say, print, or write any criticisms about the government, or say any unloyal things during wartime.
Wilson's final, or Fourteenth Point, was the creation of this.
What is the League of Nations?