WWI Vocabulary
Proper Nouns
Location, Location, Location.
United States
Miscellaneous
100
A tactic America practiced to avoid involvement with other countries.
What is isolationism?
100
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, & the Ottoman Empire.
What are the Central Powers?
100
Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated here.
Where is Sarajevo, Bosnia?
100
This policy kept the uS out of the war for the first three years.
What is neutrality.
100
In the Treaty of Versailles, this country was blamed for WWI.
What is Germany.
200
The practice of building up military supplies and armed forces.
What is militarism?
200
Germany invaded Belgium to access France's capital by surprise.
What is the Schlieffen Plan?
200
This country makes up the majority of the Eastern Front.
What is Russia?
200
This was president Woodrow Wilson's peace plan.
What are the Fourteen Points?
200
These weapons were introduced in WWI.
What are tanks and airplanes.
300
German submarines.
What are U-Boats?
300
Germany's letter which proposed an alliance to Mexico, which was intercepted by the United States.
What is the Zimmerman Note?
300
Trench warfare was the primary means of battle in these two Fronts.
What are Eastern and Western.
300
What German fighting tactic scared the United States into the war?
What is unrestricted submarine warfare.
300
The US did not want to join this group because it meant they would be involved in future European alliances.
What is the League of Nations.
400
Countries forming agreements to fight for each other.
What are alliances?
400
African Americans moved to Northern cities to fill in vacant jobs.
What is the Great Migration?
400
This country was isolated from the war because of its distance away from the conflict.
What is the United States.
400
The United States entered the war in this year.
What is 1917.
400
During WWI, support increased for women's right to do this.
What is vote?
500
Images and advertisements meant to sway people's opinions.
What is propaganda?
500
Great Britain, Italy, France, and the United States made up this organization.
What is the Big Four?
500
This country started the physical fighting in the war, in Belgium.
What is Germany.
500
Of all the countries involved in WWI, the United States suffered the fewest of these.
What are casualties.
500
This act required men to sign up for the draft and military service.
What is the Selective Service Act.
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