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100
This ALLIED country is labeled #5
What is France?
100
US President during WWI
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
100
New form of warfare common on the Western Front (in France and Belgium) that caused the war to reach a stalemate
What is trench warfare?
100
This event was the spark that set off WWI
What is the assassination of Franz Ferdinand?
100
Name of the treaty that officially ended WWI
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
200
This CENTRAL POWER is labeled #6
What is Germany?
200
Law that punished people for expressing anti-war viewpoints
What is the Sedition Act?
200
Term describing the deadly area between opposing enemy trenches
What is no-man's land?
200
This intercepted message from Germany promising the return of land to Mexico in exchange for attacking the US was a major reason the US joined the war
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
200
Payment from one country to another for losses suffered during war
What are reparations?
300
This ALLIED country (#10) dropped out of the war in 1917
What is Russia?
300
Movement of thousands of African-Americans to northern cities in response to the promise of jobs and higher wages
What is the Great Migration?
300
New weapon used by the Germans to sink many supply ships
What are u-boats?
300
A revolution in Russia saw Tsar Nicholas II replaced by what type of government?
What is communist?
300
The only one of Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points that the rest of the Big 4 agreed to
What is the League of Nations?
400
This nation (#4) declared war after Germany invaded neutral Belgium
What is the UK/United Kingdom/Britain/Great Britain?
400
This idea began as a way for homes and factories to conserve (save) energy
What is Daylight Saving Time?
400
Another weapon first used during WWI that was extremely deadly if you didn't get your mask on in time; this type of attack was described in the poem Dulce et Decorum est
What is poison gas?
400
This was signed and took affect on the 11 hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918
What is the armistice?
400
Prime Minister of France who wanted the treaty to severely punish Germany for the war
Who is Georges Clemenceau?
500
This country (#8) started out allied with Germany, but switched and joined the ALLIES
What is Italy?
500
The American government used these to pay for 2/3 of the war
What are Liberty and Victory Bonds?
500
WWI saw the first use of these in war, mainly for bombing and surveillance
What are airplanes?
500
Germany's sinking of this passenger ship killed 1,198 people, including 128 Americans, and pushed the US further toward the Allies
What is the Lusitania?
500
US senator who led the opposition to the treaty ending WWI
Who is Henry Cabot Lodge?