On 7 May 1915, this passenger ship was sunk by a German u-boat killing 1198 passengers, including 128 Americans.
What is the RMS Lusitania?
100
This legislation authorized the federal government to raise a national army for the American entry into World War I through conscription. It was envisioned in December 1916 and brought to President Woodrow Wilson's attention shortly after the break in relations with Germany in February 1917
What is Selective Service Act?
100
U.S. President during the Great War.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
100
This term refers specifically to military submarines operated by Germany, particularly in World War I and World War II.
What is a u-boat?
200
On 28 June 1914, this man was assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia leading to the beginning of the Great War in Europe.
Who is Franz Ferdinand?
200
Signed on March 3, 1918, between the new Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Ottoman Empire), that ended Russia's participation in World War I.
What is the Brest-Litovsk Treaty?
200
This man was a general officer in the United States Army who led the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I. He is the only person to be promoted in his own lifetime to the highest rank ever held in the United States Army.
Who is John J. Pershing?
200
Great Britain, France, Russia… United States (1917).
Who are the Allied Powers?
300
President Woodrow Wilson declared that the United States would remain “impartial in thought as well as in action.”
What is Neutrality?
300
The Allied and Associated Governments affirm and Germany accepts the responsibility of Germany and her allies for causing all the loss and damage to which the Allied and Associated Governments and their nationals have been subjected as a consequence of the war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her allies.
What is the War Guilt Clause?
300
This U.S. soldier was one of the most decorated American soldiers in World War I. He received the Medal of Honor for leading an attack on a German machine gun nest, taking 32 machine guns, killing 28 German soldiers and capturing 132 others.
Who is Alvin York?
300
This U.S. government agency was established during World War I, to coordinate the purchase of war supplies. The organization encouraged companies to use mass-production techniques to increase efficiency and urged them to eliminate waste by standardizing products.
What is the War Industries Board?
400
This was an internal diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January, 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the event of the United States entering World War I against Germany.
What is the Zimmermann telegram?
400
A broad foreign affairs doctrine that says nation is best served by holding the affairs of other nations at a distance.
What is isolationism?
400
This man is best known for his positions on foreign policy, especially his battle with President Woodrow Wilson in 1919 over the Treaty of Versailles. He demanded Congressional control of declarations of war.
Who is Henry Cabot Lodge?
400
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire
Who are the Central Powers?
500
On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, the guns fell silent across Europe.
How did World War I end?
500
Says a nation has the right to freely choose their sovereignty and international political status with no external compulsion or interference.
What is self-determination?
500
This was an intergovernmental organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. It was the first international organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace.
What is the League of Nations?
500
This statement laid out a policy of free trade, open agreements between nations, democracy and self-determination.