Allies
This country joined the Allies in April 1917
What is the USA?
The policy of building a strong military to prepare for war
What is militarism?
Its operators were called "the knights of the air"
What are airplanes?
The President of the US during WWI
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
These new workers replaced many of the American men who went to fight in WWI
Who are American women?
Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire
What nations were known as the Central Powers?
Deals between nations that agree to help each other if either one is in a war
What are alliances?
This weapon mowed down thousands of soldiers who were ordered to charge across "no man's land"
What is the machine gun?
The top US military commander during WWI
Who was Gen. John "Black Jack" Pershing?
This invisible enemy killed more people in WWI than bullets, bombs, and poison gas combined
What is the Spanish Flu?
Britain, France, and Russia (plus, later, Italy and the US)
What nations were part of the Allied Powers?
Extreme pride in one's own country
What is nationalism?
This weapon's name comes from its code name, which suggested that it was used to store water
What is a tank?
The ruler of the German Empire during WWI
Who was Kaiser Wilhelm?
The name used for "World War I" before it was called "World War I"
What was the Great War? (Or, what was the War to End all Wars?)
Germany promised that this country could regain a lot of land if it came in on Germany's side
What is Mexico?
The policy of taking political and economic control of other countries
What is imperialism?
Fritz Haber won a Nobel Prize for creating chemical plant fertilizers, but he also invented this terrible weapon of WWI
What is poison gas?
The ruler of Austria-Hungary during WWI
Who was Emperor Franz Joseph?
This electronically-transmitted message was the "last straw" that brought the US into WWI
What was the Zimmerman Telegram?
This country was allied with Germany before WWI, but it switched sides when the war broke out
What is Italy?
The intentional killing of a specific person, often for political reasons
What is assassination?
Germany's "unrestricted" use of this weapon was a key reason for the USA's entry into WWI
What are U-boats?
This Republican Party leader persuaded the Senate to vote against joining the League of Nations
Who was Senator Henry Cabot Lodge?
This international organization, created right after WWI, was weakened because the USA refused to join it
What was the League of Nations?