Important People
World Crisis
The Road to War
War
War Ends & Peace Begins
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Who was the President of the United States during WWI?
Woodrow Wilson
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What is Nationalism
Pride or Love for one's country
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What is Isolationism
A policy in which a nation avoids entanglement in foreign wars
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Illness the spread throughout the western front, killing half of the United States infantry

Spanish Flu 

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What is Armistice Day?
On November 11, 1918, the armistice went into effect, and the guns of war fell silent.
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Assassinated by the Serbian terrorist organization known as "Black Hand"

Archduke Franz Ferdinand 

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What is Militarism?
Building up of Army & Weapons
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What are U-Boats?
Small Submarines
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What is a Stalemate?
Deadlock- Neither side can advance
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What were the Fourteen Points?
President Woodrow Wilson's plan for organizing post-World War I Europe and for avoiding future wars
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Who was the Emperor of Germany during WWI?
Kaiser Wilhelm II
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What is Imperialism?

Extension of a nation's power over another country/territory. 

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What was the Lusitania? What happened to it?
A British ship sunk by a German U-Boat on May 7th, 1915
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What are Conscientious Objectors
Certain religious groups- Beliefs prevented them from fighting in a war. (I.E. Quakers)
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Despite the fact that President Woodrow Wilson developed the concept of the League of Nations, the United States NEVER joined... why???

Congress, specifically the Senate, was concerned about The League of Nations leading us into "unnecessary" foreign entanglements.

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Who were the 369th Infantry? What were they known as...

All Black infantry that fought alongside the french & Known as the "Harlem Hellfighters".

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What Countries were in the Allied Powers

Great Britain, France, Russia, US, & Italy 

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What was the Zimmermann Note and Who intercepted it?
A telegram sent to a German official in Mexico before World War I; it proposed an alliance between Germany and Mexico Intercepted by the British
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This was created by President Wilson, and its objective was to maximize national loyalty and support for World War I
The Committee on Public Information
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What was the "War Guilt Clause"
The part of the Treaty of Versailles that blamed Germany for WWI
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What Countries were in the "Big 4" at the Paris Peace Conference?

United States - Great Britain - France - Italy

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What Countries were in the Central Powers?

Germany, AUstria-Hungary and Ottoman Empire 

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What was the Sussex Pledge
A pledge Germany issued which included a promise not to sink merchant vessels “without warning and without saving human lives”
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Name 3 Ways people at home assisted in the war effort?
Meatless Mondays, Heatless Mondays, Wheatless Wednesdays, Gasless Sundays, Victory Gardens, Women going to work, & Liberty Bonds
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What are 3 major points of Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points that we discussed in class?

1. Reduction of Military Arms 2. Self-Determination 3. The League of Nations Other possible answers: Open Trade, No Secret Treaties...

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