Get in Loser, We're Going to War 🚢💥
To save food for soldiers, Americans had these ✨alliterative✨ ration days.
What are Wheatless Mondays & Meatless Tuesdays?
This act required all men ages 21-30 to register for the draft. No exceptions, bestie.
What is the Selective Service Act?
The U.S. declared war in April 1917, but troops didn’t arrive until this month.
What is June 1917?
Russia left WWI after this 1918 treaty.
What is the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
This 1917 act cracked down on spies and war opposition.
What is the Espionage Act?
Herbert Hoover was the head of this war-time food agency.
What is the Food Administration?
The U.S. entered WWI with a big navy 🌊 but only this ranking for army size.
What is 16th?
The AEF (American Expeditionary Force) was led by this general.
Who is John J. Pershing?
This communist king 👑 took over Russia in 1917, ending their war effort.
Vladimir Lenin?
This 1918 act went even further, banning any anti-war speech.
What is the Sedition Act?
Women and African Americans stepped into the workforce during WWI because of this issue.
What is a labor shortage?
Women weren’t drafted, but 30,000+ of them still volunteered, working mostly as this.
What are nurses, secretaries, and telephone operators?
This system helped protect supply ships from German submarines.
What is the convoy system?
On November 11, 1918, this agreement officially ended the fighting.
What is the armistice?
They got jailed for telling workers NOT to fight in the war.
Who is Eugene V. Debs?
The War Industries Board (WIB) had this power over businesses during WWI.
What is deciding what industries could and couldn’t produce?
This military regiment was known as the Harlem Hellfighters and served with the French.
What is the 369th Infantry Regiment?
U.S. Marines fought HARD to drive out Germans in this brutal 3-week battle.
What is the Battle of Belleau Wood?
Germany was forced to give up these war machines as part of the armistice terms.
What are U-boats?
Jane Addams co-founded this anti-war organization in 1912.
What is the Women’s Peace Party?
WWI propaganda posters gave us this classic meme-worthy recruitment character.
Who is Uncle Sam?
WWI was more than a war it was school 📚 for many troops. What percent of draftees were illiterate?
What is 25% or 1 in 4?
U.S. troops fought in this September–November 1918 battle, forcing Germany’s collapse.
What is the Battle of the Argonne Forest?
Triple Stumper: Germany was so sure they were gonna win WWI in early 1918 that they launched a massive ‘peace offensive’ to try and end the war on their terms. What was this offensive called, and what was its ultimate outcome?
What is the Spring Offensive, and what is ‘It failed, and the Allies counterattacked hard’ (leading to Germany’s downfall)? 😬🔥
This congresswoman from Montana was the first woman elected to Congress and opposed WWI.
Who is Jeannette Rankin?