Causes of WWI
Who were the three Allied Powers (Triple Entente)
Russia (United States), Great Britain, and France.
Why did the government want US citizens to take out bonds?
To fund the war.
What was the Tzar of Russian at the beginning of WWI?
Nicholas II
What kind of warfare was used during WWI?
Trench warfare
What was the name of President Wilson's outline of peace?
Fourteen Points
Whose assassination caused WWI to start in Europe?
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Who did US citizens converse the nation's food supply?
Rations, Victory Gardens, etc.
Why were the Russian population angry with the Monarchy (Tzar Nicholas II)?
Put Russian soldiers into WWI without proper training, weapons, food, shoes. Also, the citizens were starving.
Neutral
What the name of the treaty that ended WWI?
The Treaty of Versailles
Who were the Central Powers?
Germany, Austria- Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire
How did women help during WWI?
They took over the jobs that soldiers left, took over as the head of the household.
What was the name of the party that took over Russia in 1917?
Bolshevik Party
The sinking of what ships shifted the United States' perspective on WWI?
The Lusitania
True or False: Did the United States sign the Treaty of Versailles?
False
What is the acronym used to identify the four main causes of WWI
MAIN
What was the Espionage and Sedition Act?
Create by the government to limit criticism of the war.
What was the leader of the Bolshevik Party and how did he change Russia?
Vladimir Lenin. Russian changed to a communist government and renamed to the Soviet Union.
What was the Selective Service Act?
The draft. Men had to sign up for war.
Why didn't the senate ratify (sign) the Treaty of Versailles?
Afraid that it would pull the US into future wars and form alliances.
How did nationalism, militarism, and imperialism lead to the start of WWI?
They made countries more competitive with each other.
Describe the Great Migration.
African Americans moved from the rural South to the urban North to fill the vacant jobs left by soldiers and to escape violent racism in the south.
Who joined WWI when Russia dropped out?
The United States
Describe the events of the Zimmerman Telegram.
Germany sent Mexico a coded telegram saying they would help Mexico get back their lost territories from the US if Mexico allowed them to attack the US through Mexico. It was intercepted by Great Britain and pushed the US towards entering the war.
Give two ways that Germany was punished for WWI in the Treaty of Versailles.
Had to take all the blame, pay back reparations (money), limited military, give up land.