America fought the Spanish-American War to help liberate this country from Spanish control
What is Cuba
100
The sinking of this ship in 1915 was an event that moved America toward war
What is the Lusitania
100
These four countries met at Versailles to decide Germany's fate
What is the U.S., England, France, Italy
100
Five of the seven main countries that made up the Allied Powers in WW1
What is Russia, France, Great Britain, Italy, Serbia, Belgium, and the U.S.
200
Sensationalized reporting
What is yellow journalism
200
Americans believed the spanish sunk this U.S. battleship in 1898
What is the USS Maine
200
His assassination was the spark that ignited the Great War
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand
200
A precursor to the United Nations, this organization was formed at the end of World War 1
What is The League of Nations
200
Style of warfare in which soldiers dug ditches and stayed in them to protect themselves from enemy fire. The Western Front is a prominent example.
What is trench warfare
300
Exerting influence over less powerful countries
What is imperialism
300
This future president led the Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War
Who is Teddy Roosevelt
300
This document proposed a secret alliance between Germany and Mexico
What is the Zimmerman Telegram
300
This former Spanish colony rebelled against AMerican control after the SPanish-American War
What is the Philippines
300
Woodrow Wilson's ideas on how to make post-WW1 world a more cooperative and peaceful place
What is Wilson's Fourteen Points
400
A country's policy of NOT interacting with other countries
What is isolationism
400
More American soldiers were killed by this than by enemy soldiers
What is contaminated food
400
The three main countries that made up the Central Powers
What is Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire
400
This country had the highest number of casualties by the end of WW1
What is Russia
400
German policy that declared that any ships helping the enemy were possible targets for attack. This also helped move the U.S. away from neutrality and closer to entering the war.
What is Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
500
What the acronym MAIN - used to describe the causes of WW1 - stands for
What is Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism
500
This intercepted document called President McKinely weak
What is the DeLome letter
500
This 1917 law made it illegal to speak out against the war effort
What is the Espionage Act
500
The name of the treaty that ended the Spanish-American War
What is the Treaty of Paris
500
The American president during the Spanish-American War