Causes of WWI
What policy kept the US out of WWI at the beginning?
What country was neutral at the start of WWI because of isolationism?
United States
Used to irritate the lungs of their opponents
Poison Gas
Doughboys
What did the United States build in Panama that decreased the amount of time it took to travel?
Panama Canal
What is the agreement where if one country is attacked others will join in?
Alliances
What country was the main "bad guy" in WWI?
Germany
German submarines
U-Boats
Group of African American fighter pilots that won numerous awards
Harlem Hell fighters
What country did the US help when they fought Spain?
Cuba
What event started WWI?
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
What country did Germany send the Zimmerman Telegram to?
Mexico
What made WWI deadlier than previous wars?
Automatic weapons or machine guns
What helped finance the war?
Liberty Bonds
What kind of journalism persuaded the US to go to war with Spain?
Yellow Journalism
Nationalism
What country was the Lusitania sailing to from the United States?
Great Britain
What was used in the trenches that was largely ineffective at first?
Tanks
What group created propaganda to get Americans to support the war effort?
Committee on Public Information
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Countries increased the size and strength of their armies and navies
Militarism
What country was Archduke Ferdinand from?
Austria-Hungary
Where did most of the fighting during WWI take place?
Trenches
What act controlled what newspapers printed during WWI?
Sedition Act
What US Navy ship sank and the Spanish were blamed for it despite no evidence?
USS Maine