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100

The year that the U.S. enters World War I

When is 1917?

100

Common name for money Americans loan to the U.S. government to fund the war effort

What are liberty bonds?

100

An agreement between two or more countries to defend one another

What is an alliance?

200

The president of the United States during World War I

Who is Woodrow Wilson?

200

World War I is the first American war in which this group can officially join the military

Who are women?

200

To not take a side in a war or dispute

What is neutrality?

300

This country was secretly sending weapons to the Allies before declaring war on the Central Powers

What is the United States?

300

The movement of six million African Americans from the rural South to the urban North/West

What is the Great Migration?

300

A fixed amount of a good/supply officially allowed to each person during a time of shortage, like wartime.

What are rations?

400

Germany sent a secret telegram to this country hoping to create an wartime alliance against the United States

What is Mexico?

400

Many schools and colleges stopped teaching this language during World War I

What is German?

400

Conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state

What is sedition?

500

The ship sunk by German forces, prompting U.S. involvement in the war

What is the Lusitania?

500

The 1918 Influenza pandemic is believed to have originated in this state

What is Kansas?

500

The practice of spying/using spies

What is espionage?

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