Lesson 1
a strong sense of pride and loyalty to one’s nation or culture.
What is Nationalism?
More jobs were available for this group because of labor shortages as America prepared for war - mainly nurses and office workers but not only those jobs.
Who are women?
The American Expeditionary Force was better known by this abbreviation.
What is the AEF?
European Allied leaders wanted Germany to pay huge reparations and be punished in other ways, but this world leader thought it should not be punished so harshly.
Who was President Wilson?
This body of water lies between Germany and Great Britain.
What is the North Sea?
a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force; rule by an emperor
What is Imperialism?
The government sold Liberty ______ to finance the war.
What are bonds?
One of the Allied challenges was that German forces advanced on this country.
What is France?
Some U.S. leaders did not want to join it because they thought it meant giving up some U.S. independence.
What is the League of Nations?
Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland were all lost by this country after WWI.
Who was Russia?
This country formed an alliance with Austria-Hungary in 1879.
Who is Germany?
A five-letter word we use to refer to the time when the Selective Service Act was passed and Congress required all men in the U.S. between the ages of 21 and 30 to register for military service.
What is the draft?
Allied forces stopped the German advance less than 50 miles from this famous European city.
What is Paris, France?
The U.S. did not ratify the Treaty of "this place" after WWI.
What is Versailles?
Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Yugoslavia were all newly created and/or lost by this empire after WWI.
Who was Austria-Hungary?
an increase in the importance of the military of a country
What is militarism?
Germany sank passenger liners, including a swift-moving British cruise liner traveling from New York to Liverpool, England. Of the 1,959 men, women, and children on board, 1,195 perished, including 123 Americans.
What is the Lusitania?
A major challenge for the Allied forces was when this group pulled out of war.
Who was Russia?
The number of points in Wilson's proposals for postwar peace.
What is 14?
An Allied occupied area was between Germany and this small country.
What is Belgium?
France and this country created their own alliance in 1893. Britain joined them in 1907.
Who is Russia?
Americans learned about this secret diplomatic communication issued by the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between the German Empire and Mexico if the United States entered World War I against Germany.
What is the Zimmermann Note?
Allied forces defeated Germans along the Meuse River and in this Forest.
What is the Argonne?
A word used to indicate financial payments by the loser of a war.
What are reparations?
Other than Wilson, name a member of the Big Four.
Who were British prime minister David Lloyd George, French premier Georges Clemenceau, and Italian prime minister Vittorio Orlando.