English passenger ship sunk by a German U boat, killing American civilians.
What is the Lusitania?
100
Director of the CPI (Committee on Public Information).
Who is George Creel?
100
World organization to promote peaceful cooperation between countries.
What is the League of Nations?
100
Widespread fear of radicals and Communists.
What is the Red Scare?
200
Archduke of Austria-Hungary who was assassinated in 1914. "Trigger" of WW1.
Who is Francis Ferdinand?
200
Telegram in which the German foreign minister proposed an alliance with Mexico against the US.
What is the Zimmermann Note?
200
1917 law that gave postal authorities the power to ban treasonable or seditious materials from the mail.
What is the Espionage Act?
200
Republican Senator who opposed ratification of the Treaty of Versailles.
Who is Henry Cabot Lodge?
200
Series of raids, arrests, and deportations of suspected radicals, most of whom never received a trial.
What are the Palmer raids?
300
German emperor.
Who is William II?
300
Law that established a military draft in 1917.
What is the Selective Service Act?
300
Radical Communist leader who took over Russia in March 1917.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
300
Payments for war damages.
What are reparations?
300
Italian anarchists convicted and executed for murder, despite not a lot of evidence against them.
Who are Sacco and Vanzetti?
400
Trenches that stretched from the Belgian coast to the Swiss border with France, forming the battlefield between the Allies and the Central Powers in Western Europe.
What is the Western Front?
400
Head of the War Industries Board, which regulated businesses related to the war effort.
Who is Bernard Baruch?
400
General who led American forces in Europe.
Who is John Pershing?
400
Senate isolationists who opposed any treaty that included a League of Nations.
Who are irreconcilables?
400
Elected president in 1920 by promising Americans a "return to normalcy".
Who is Warren Harding?
500
German Submarine.
What is a U boat?
500
Organization which worked to convince the public that the war was the right thing to do.
What is the CPI (Committee on Public Information)?
500
Wilson's plan for lasting peace through international openness and cooperation.
What are the Fourteen Points?
500
Senators who opposed the Treaty of Versailles as written, but were open to compromise.