A World War Begins
From Neutral to Declaration of War
The Home Front
The War to End All Wars
Terms to Know
100
This is a group of nations who promise to protect one another. (page 310)
What is an alliance?
100
When the war began, this U.S. President believed the United States should stay neutral. (page 315)
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
100
This law was passed in 1917 and said that all men between the ages of 21 and 30 had to sign up for the draft. (page 319)
What is the selective Service Act?
100
They fought the Germans along the Eastern Front. (page 322)
Who are the Russians?
100
This is a contest to build weapons and military power. (page 310)
What is an arms race?
200
This is the belief or feeling that your country is way better than other countries. (page 310)
What is extreme nationalism?
200
This British ocean liner was sunk in 1915 by a German submarine. (page 316)
What is the Lusitania?
200
These three groups replaced men who left their jobs to fight in the war. (page 320)
Who are women, Mexican immigrants, and African Americans?
200
They believe in a system in which the government owns all property and business. (page 322)
What are communists?
200
This is the spreading of ideas, information, and beliefs to help or hurt a cause. (page 315)
What is propaganda?
300
These were 6 to 8 feet wide and about 5 feet deep, and hundreds of miles of these stretched along the Western Front. (pages 311-312)
What are trenches?
300
This secret message promised that Germany would help Mexico take back lands in Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico. (page 317)
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
300
These were sold to raise money for the war. (page 320)
What are Liberty bonds?
300
The number of Americans killed in World War One. (Chart on page 324)
What is 126,000.
300
This is an agreement between nations to stop fighting. (page 322)
What is an armistice?
400
In order to attack, soldiers crawled out of the trenches and crossed over this area to the other side. (page 313)
What is "no-man's land"?
400
This government group wrote news stories and made posters to encourage Americans to support the war effort. (page 318)
What is the Committee on Public Information (CPI)?
400
During the war, families grew their own food in these. (page 321)
What are victory gardens?
400
Between 1918 and 1919, this sudden spread of disease killed 20 million people. (page 325)
What is a flu epidemic?
400
This system requires the government to take control of all farms, banks, and factories. (page 322)
What is communism?
500
These were new weapons used in World War I. (page 314)
What are machine guns, tanks, poison gas, submarines, and airplanes?
500
The number of Americans that were killed when the Lusitania sank. (page 316)
What is 128?
500
The number of men who volunteered to join the armed forces. (page 319)
What is over one million?
500
At the end of the war to end all wars, President Wilson's plan for peace was called this. (page 326)
What is The Fourteen Points?
500
This was the situation on the Western Front at the end of 1914 when neither side could gain an advantage. (page 312)
What is a stalemate?
M
e
n
u