Causes & American Involvement
Historians generally cite four long-term causes of the First World War
What is M.A.I.N.?
The nickname for World War One
What is the Great War?
The U.S. president during WW1
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This system used to protect U.S. merchant ships from German U-boats in the Atlantic Ocean
What is the convoy system?
Women's active participation in the war effort led to the passage of this amendment giving them the right to vote
What is the 19th amendment?
This assassination touched off a diplomatic crisis
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
Congress passed this in order to raise an army
What is the Selective Service Act?
Which government administration monitored coal supplies and rationed gasoline and heating oil
What is the Fuel Administration?
The area separating warring sides in trench warfare
What is no mans land?
Peace treaty that brought an end to World War I
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
The name of the alliance between France, Great Britain, & Russia
Who is the Triple Entente?
Gardens planted in order to increase food production for Allied and American troops
What are "Victory Gardens?"
In Wilson's speech to congress asking for a declaration war, he felt the U.S. had this responsibility
What is "Make the world safe for democracy?"
Machine guns, tanks, flame thrower, poison gas, & airplanes, what are these examples of
What are new weapons introduced during World War I
A forum for nations to discuss & settle issues without going to war
What is the League of Nations?
The nickname for German submarines who engaged in unrestricted submarine warfare
What are U-boats?
Used propaganda in order to sell war to the American people
What is the Committee on Public Information?
Lost jobs, names changes, physical and verbal abuse. These examples of discrimination against which group of Americans?
Who are German-Americans?
Rat infestation, dirt, dampness, disease & dead bodies, what are these conditions of?
What are the conditions of Trench Warfare?
Wilson's plan for world peace that he presented to the League of Nations
What is the Fourteen Points speech?
An alliance between Germany & Mexico IF a war happened to start between the U.S. & Mexico
What is the Zimmerman telegram/note?
African Americans moving from the South to the North for manufacturing jobs & racial segregation
What is the Great Migration?
The Fuel Administration adopted this to conserve resources
What is daylight-savings time?
The hour, day, and month Germany surrendered
What is The eleventh hour, on the eleventh day, in the eleventh month of 1918?
This allied power did not join the League Nations
What is the United States?