This man was President of the United States during World War I; he was re-elected in 1916 under the slogan "He Kept us Out of War"
Who is Woodrow Wilson
100
This country was the location of the assassination that provided the spark for the war.
What is Serbia
100
Area between the two trenches, filled with the dead and dying, as well as shell-holes, barbed-wire, and fat rats feasting on corpses.
What is "no-man's land"
100
This was the official US position at the start of the war
What is staying neutral (neutrality)
200
AEF is an acronym for this.
What is American Expeditionary Force
200
This was the nickname for American troops that was given to them when they arrived in France.
What is "doughboys"
200
Name one of the nine new countries that was created after World War I
What are Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Finland, Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia
200
This was the year that World War I began
What is 1914
200
During the war, factories stopped producing as many consumer goods in order to produce these.
What are wartime goods
300
This is when a country builds up its army and navy and stockpiles weapons and ammunition, and was one of the four MAIN causes of the war.
What is militarism
300
This man's assassination was the spark that kicked off the war
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand
300
This country rushed to the aid of Serbia after Serbia and Austria-Hungary went to war, determined to help protect their fellow Slavs.
What is Russia
300
Name two new weapons that were used in World War I
What are machine guns, airplanes, tanks, submarines, flamethrowers, etc.
300
This document helped bring the United States into the war because Americans feared an invasion by Mexico.
What is the Zimmerman Note (Telegram)
400
This is when a country seeks to expand its territory or empire, usually by conquering other areas of the world, and was one of the MAIN causes of the war.
What is Imperialism
400
This man was commander of American forces in World War I
Who is John J. Pershing
400
Britain, France, Russia, Italy, and, later the United States comprised this side during the war.
What are the Allied Powers (Entente Powers)
400
This part of the peace agreement required Germany to accept blame for starting the war.
What is the war guilt clause
400
This is the name of the agreement that ended the war.
What is the Treaty of Versailles
500
This convoluted system of European countries trying to defend each other was one of the MAIN causes of World War I.
What is the Alliance System
500
This tactic, named for the German foreign minister at the time, was Germany's plan to squeeze off France by encircling Paris, thereby knocking the French out the war, and then turning eastward to deal with the Russians.
What is the Schlieffen Plan
500
Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire comprised this side during the war.
What are the Central Powers
500
Russia left the war in 1917 for this reason.
What is the Bolshevik Revolution
500
Name three ways that life on the home front changed during World War I
What are women in the workforce, victory gardens, rationing, propaganda, Espionage & Sedition Acts, Liberty Bonds, etc.