The Road to War
The assassination of this heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne sparked the crisis that led to World War I.
Who was Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
Soldiers used this term for the exposed ground between opposing trench systems.
What is no man’s land?
This German message proposed an alliance with Mexico if the United States entered the war.
What was the Zimmermann Telegram?
This 1917 law required eligible men to register for a military draft.
What was the Selective Service Act?
This 1918 law expanded wartime restrictions to criminalize certain disloyal or abusive statements about the government, Constitution, flag, or military.
What was the Sedition Act?
European powers competed for colonies, resources, and overseas markets. This underlying cause of WWI increased distrust among them.
What is imperialism?
Britain introduced this armored vehicle to cross trenches, crush barbed wire, and attack enemy positions.
What is a tank?
The sinking of this British passenger liner in 1915 killed 128 Americans and increased tensions between the United States and Germany.
What was the Lusitania?
Wartime grain conservation and hostility toward German American brewers strengthened a movement that achieved its central constitutional goal through this amendment.
What was the Eighteenth Amendment?
This 1917 law punished interference with military recruitment and became a major tool for prosecuting opposition to the draft.
What was the Espionage Act?
Germany’s invasion of neutral Belgium helped bring this country into the war and showed how a military plan could widen a conflict.
What is Great Britain?
This rapid-fire weapon gave defenders a major advantage against infantry advancing across open ground.
What is the machine gun?
Before entering the war, American banks extended substantial loans to Britain and France, tying American financial interests most closely to this coalition.
Who were the Allied Powers?
These government securities allowed Americans to lend money to the federal government to finance the war.
What were Liberty Bonds?
This agreement ended the fighting on November 11, 1918, without establishing the final terms of peace.
What was the armistice?
This underlying cause of WWI transformed a regional conflict into a wider war as countries honored commitments to defend one another.
What was the alliance system?
Germany’s effort to avoid a prolonged two-front war depended on this plan, which called for defeating France quickly before concentrating on Russia.
What was the Schlieffen Plan?
Germany resumed this policy in 1917, allowing U-boats to attack ships in designated war zones without warning.
What was unrestricted submarine warfare?
Led by Herbert Hoover, this agency promoted “wheatless” and “meatless” days to conserve supplies for soldiers and the Allies.
What was the U.S. Food Administration?
This presidential peace program called for open diplomacy, reduced armaments, and an international organization to prevent future wars.
What were the Fourteen Points?
This ideology helped unify Germany but threatened Austria-Hungary by encouraging ethnic groups within the empire to seek independence.
What is nationalism?
Following Russia’s withdrawal, Germany shifted forces toward France and launched major offensives in 1918 on this front.
What was the Western Front?
Germany’s promise that Mexico could recover Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona referred to territory lost after this nineteenth-century war.
What was the Mexican-American War?
Led by George Creel, this federal agency coordinated posters, films, and speeches to build public support for the war.
What was the Committee on Public Information?
Wartime industrial labor shortages and reduced European immigration helped accelerate this movement of African Americans from the South to Northern cities.
What was the Great Migration?