Vocabulary
This means building up a country's military power
What is militarism?
This empire partnered with Germany as a member of the Central Powers.
What is Austria-Hungary (or Ottoman Empire)?
These 3 wet and cold substances filled the bottom of trenches, leading to serious health risks.
What are water, sand and clay?
This German strategy prompted the U.S. to reconsider neutrality due to attacks on ships.
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
This country officially remained neutral at the start of WWI, despite public support for the Allies.
True: What is the United States?
This sophomore student currently holds the #1 spot in Washington State for most stolen bases in Baseball.
Who is Warren Repp?
This german weapon patrolled the seas undetected
What is a U-Boat?
These 3 countries were allied with Serbia during WWI
What is Russia, France and Great Britain?
This painful condition was caused by standing in wet, unsanitary trenches for long periods.
What is trench foot?
Before entering WWI, General Pershing required this number of trained soldiers and months of preparation.
What are 1 million soldiers and 6 months of training?
This U.S. draft act required only men & women—over the age of 21 to register for service.
False: What is the Selective Service Act?
This county is the #1 Wheat Producer in the U.S
What is Whitman County, WA?
This agreement between Germany and the U.S. followed the attack on a civilian ship and promised to stop unrestricted submarine warfare
What is the Sussex Pledge?
This nation entered WWI after Germany invaded neutral Belgium
What is Great Britain?
Soldiers faced these three common hardships while living in the trenches.
What are rats, mud, and constant shelling?
These two major events ultimately led the U.S. to side with the Allies rather than the Central Powers
What are the Zimmermann Note and resumed submarine warfare?
The American public supported Germany’s submarine warfare, not supported it.
False: it was heavily opposed
This festival is held every year in Pullman to celebrate a specific pulse crop
What is the Lentil Festival?
This was a message from Germany to Mexico asking them to attack the U.S.
What is the Zimmermann Note?
This military condition, where neither side could gain an advantage, prolonged the war.
What is a stalemate?
During the war, this describe how armies distributed a fixed amount of goods to their troops.
What is rationing?
This was one of the main reasons Germany chose to rely on submarines instead of its traditional navy during WWI.
What is the naval blockade of German ports?
This event forced Russia to withdraw from the war and draw up a separate treaty with Belgium
False: The Russian Revolution forced Russia to draw up a separate treaty with Germany.
These two dogs belong to Mr. McKee
This movement replaced the Russian monarchy.
What is the Russian Revolution?
This country's invasion through Belgium triggered the involvement of several Allied nations.
What is Germany?
This condition, often caused by poor sanitation in trenches, resulted in dehydration and weakness.
What is dysentery?
This U.S. law allowed the federal government to rapidly grow its military by requiring eligible citizens to enroll, dramatically increasing troop numbers for WWI.
What is the Selective Service Act?
The Treaty of Versailles focused on providing fair repercussions to this country.
False: unfair conditions placed on Germany
This movie character says this iconic line
"Why don't you make like a tree and leave"
Who is Biff from Back to the Future