Causes of the War
The short term cause of World War I?
The stance of not intervening on either side of the war, but continuing to trade with each.
What is neutrality?
Newly invented submarines that shot torpedoes.
What are U-boats?
The Bolshevik Revolution created a wave of anti-communist sentiment in the United States called
The Red Scare
Collective set of anti-Black racist riots and violence that swept the country in 1919.
What is Red Summer?
Competition over land during the Age of ________________ was a long term cause of WWI.
What is Imperialism?
Allied powers, Triple Entente
Attacked the respiratory system and eyes and mimicked suffocation, but only worked in the right weather.
What is Chlorine Gas?
Two reasons many Black Americans made the migration northward during the war?
Plentiful jobs, less racial violence, better jobs, no Jim Crow segregation
What was The League of Nations?
The four long-term causes of WWI.
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism
a telegram intercepted by the British promised
If America joined the war, Mexico could regain the lost territory of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona.
Large guns mounted that could fire large shells, like cannons. They took at least 12 men to operate. They were innovated during WWI.
What was artillery?
Instituted a draft to raise an army.
What is the Selective Service Act?
Group of young persons that were disillusioned with traditional values and focused on material wealth.
Who are the Lost Generation?
The ___________ was created to counterbalance the growing military and economic power of the Triple Alliance.
Triple Entente
Three reasons the Americans wanted to remain isolationist?
Diverse immigrant connections raised security concerns and confusion about which side of the alliance to join, continue making money from both sides, concerns of socialists, concerns of pacifists, war was far away from the US, squirmishes with Mexico, America First mentality
This was the most deadly weapon of World War I.
What is mustard gas?
Name three ways the United States government encouraged individuals to participate in the war effort at home?
Meatless Mondays, Victory Gardens, Liberty Bonds, Joining the Workforce, Saving fuel or rationing, Propaganda
Four of Wilson's 14 Points.
No secret treaties, freedom of the seas, equal trade, decrease armaments, adjust colonial claims, evacuate central powers from Russia, Belgium to be evacuated, Return Alsace Lorraine, Readjust Italian borders, Austria Hungary to be provided an opportunity for self-determination, redraw borders for the Balkans, Create a Turkish state, create a Polish state, create a league of Nations
The two most immediate causes that led America to join the war.
This event shifted the American perspective of the war to fighting against brutal monarchies.
What was the withdrawal of Russia following the Russian Revolution?
Area between two trenches that often caused a stalemate.
No-Man's Land
Supreme Court Case that limited the First Amendment during WWI (Hint: Can't Yell "FIRE" in a crowded theater!).
Bonus 100 if you can say which law led to the SCOTUS case...
What is US v. Schenck?
Bonus: Espionage and Sedition Acts
Five of the Nine new countries that were created out of the Treaty of Versailles. Bonus 100 for each country named after five.
Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Yugoslavia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland