Trench Warfare
The Home Front
United States Enters
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Versailles
100
This new technology was one of the things that drove soldiers into building trenches to avoid being shot.
What is machine guns?
100

These people ended up joining the workforce as a result of World War I.

Who are women?

100
The year that the United States enters the war.
What is 1917?
100

Leaders from these three countries were mostly responsible for coming up with the terms of the treaty.

What is Britain, France and the United States?

100

Name one of the territories that Germany lost as a result of the Treaty of Versailles.

What is Alsace, Lorraine, Polish Corridor, territory near Denmark?

200
Living in the trenches alongside the soldiers were these animals, that ate bodies of people and could be as large as cats!
What are rats?
200

This new type of war means that countries had to lose both their ability to fight and their desire to fight in order to actually be defeated in war.

What is total war?

200
President of the United States at the time.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
200
President Wilson arrives with a list of suggestions that he thinks will help to bring lasting peace and democracy to Europe, called this.
What is the Fourteen Points?
200

Because of their loss in the war, Germany was forced to pay these, meaning money paid back for a wrongdoing.

What are reparations?

300
This new invention was very dangerous in trenches, because after the canister was opened, it would settle in lowest area, which was often the trenches where the soldiers were.
What is mustard gas?
300

This practice of limiting the amount of food that civilians could buy was designed to preserve food and supplies for soldiers on the home front.

What is rationing?

300
The sinking of this ship, which traveled from New York to London and carried American passengers, caused outrage in the US.
What is the Lusitania?
300

The most important of Wilson's Fourteen Points is #14, which establishes this organization, which was supposed to prevent future conflict.

What is the League of Nations?

300

As a result of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany was limited to a military of only this size.

What is 100,000 soldiers?

400

These were invented as a war to try to break the stalemate of trench warfare, but ended up being ineffective because neither side had enough to make a meaningful impact.

What are tanks?

400

This is one of the major results of women's participation in the workforce in the decades following the war.

What is women gaining the right to vote?

400
This German policy also led to outrage in the United States - both because it caused American deaths, and because people were strongly opposed to it ideologically.
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
400

This is was the goal of countries like Britain and France for the Treaty of Versailles.

What is to punish Germany and make it so they can never rise up again?

400

This was the term used for the agreement to end the war.

What is armistice?

500
This disease affected many soldiers living in trenches - it was transmitted through the nasty water that the soldiers stood in, and made worse by the fact that their feet were always wet.
What is trench foot?
500

Provide one of the ways that governments became more strict during World War I.

Censorship, military dictatorship

500

One contributing cause to the US entry into WWI was this missive, which implored Mexico to side with Germany and take up arms against the United States.

What is the Zimmerman Telegram?

500
This specific part of the treaty, which forced Germany to accept responsibility for the war, is seen as one of the contributing causes to the rise of Hitler and WWII.
What is the War Guilt Clause?
500

Leaders from these two countries were not allowed to have any representatives at the meeting to create the Treaty of Versailles.

What is Germany and Russia?

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