Warfare
What years did WWI happen? (start-end)
1914-1918
Name 2 resources that Americans were asked to conserve during WWI.
Coal
Wheat
Fruit / Canned goods
Meat
Sugar
Medicine
Who was America's president during the war?
Woodrow Wilson
What 2 countries LOST LAND (shrunk) after WWI?
Germany and Russia
Propoganda
Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
What new type of warfare dug into European land during WWI?
Trench Warfare
What did Germany declare in 1915 that sunk multiple ships?
Unrestricted submarine warfare
What law was put in place to recruit American soldiers?
Who was Germany secretly allied with at the start of the war?
Russia
League of Nations
the first worldwide intergovernmental organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace.
What disease was caused by the subterranean battle conditions of WWI?
Trenchfoot
Name 3 of the 5 objectives of wartime propoganda.
Recruitment of Soldiers
Financing the War ($ war bonds/taxes)
Nationalism (pride for your country and judgment of others)
Conservation of Resources
Participation in home-front organizations to support the war effort
Why did America finally enter the war in 1917?
The Zimmerman Telegram
Germany secretly tried to get Mexico to attack the U.S.
What pandemic spread across Europe at the end of WWI?
The Spanish Flu
Alvin York
an American soldier who was one of the most decorated United States Army soldiers of World War I
What were the names of the two opposing alliances fighting in WWI?
The Allies and the Central Powers
What was Wilson's proposal for world peace called, before the Treaty of Versailles?
14 Points
What is the name of America's approach to the war, which led Americans to believe they should stay away and uninvolved in other countries' conflicts?
Isolationism
Name 2 new countries formed after WWI.
Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Palestine, Iraq, Transjordan, Syria, Lebanon, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Romania.
Zimmerman Telegram
Germany's secret message to Mexico, trying to get them to attack the U.S.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
What were the M.A.I.N. causes of WWI?
Militarism
Alliances
Isolationism
Nationalism
Wilson delivered a speech at the start of the war, appealing for __________ in order to keep Americans from spreading opinions about the war.
neutrality
What was the document created + signed by the Big 3 (America, France, + Britain) to end the War?
The Treaty of Versailles
Lusitania
On May 7, 1915, the German submarine (U-boat) torpedoed and sank the Lusitania, a British cruise liner traveling from New York to Liverpool, England.
100 Americans were killed.