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Causes of War
America Joins
At War
The Home Front
Peace
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This was a network in which different countries agreed to support each other and work together if conflict occurred.
What is the alliance system?
100
When a German u-boat sank this ship, 1200 people died - 128 of whom were Americans.
What is The Lusitania?
100
These were the two "sides" of WWI.
What are the Allies and the Central Powers?
100
Advertisements that told people to buy war bonds or grow victory gardens were designed to get Americans to support the war effort, so they could be considered this.
What is propaganda?
100
This was the name of President Wilson's peace plan.
What is the Fourteen Points plan?
200
This Austro-Hungarian monarch was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist. When Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, WWI officially began.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
200
This country created propaganda that highlighted the evils of the Central Powers, hoping to get America to join the war and fight for the Allies.
What is Britain?
200
In this type of combat, soldiers dig holes in the ground. They hide in these holes and only look out of them to shoot.
What is trench warfare?
200
These (two groups of) people took on the jobs that were vacated by people who went off to fight in WWI.
Who are women and African Americans?
200
When negotiating peace, Wilson most cared about _________ while other Allied nations were more concerned with ________________.
Establishing a league of nations; punishing Germany.
300
This feeling of pride in your nation could cause you to feel boastful and be quick to try to compete with other nations in order to prove that yours is best.
What is nationalism?
300
Britain intercepted this message from Germany to Mexico, in which Germany offered to help Mexico gain back territory from the U.S. is Mexico became a Central Power.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
300
This relatively new invention was first used in a military capacity during WWI. It was used to do surveillance of enemy troops and scout different locations for battles.
What is the airplane?
300
This was the nickname given to gardens that US citizens were encouraged to grow in order to provide themselves with food.
What is "victory gardens"?
300
This document ended the war and said that Germany would have to pay reparations for all the damages that it did during WWI.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
400
This the definition for militarism.
What is the glorification of the military?
400
This was what Wilson wanted to accomplish by joining WWI.
What is he wanted to make the world safe for the spread of democracy?
400
This document officially withdrew Russia from WWI. In exchange for getting out of the war, Russia promised to give 30% of its territory to Germany.
What is the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
400
This was the responsibility of the War Industries Board.
What is: they told industries what to produce, based on military need and available resources.
400
This disease killed over 500,000 Americans in 1918 and 1919, and was brought to the US because of our involvement with WWI.
What is influenza?
500
This is the connection between militarism and imperialism.
What is: Imperialism leads nations to colonize foreign territories. They then build up their militaries in order to defend these territories.
500
This is how the Russian Revolution encouraged the U.S. to join WWI.
What is: Russia (Allied nation) was originally led by a dictator, Tsar Nicolas II. When he was overthrown, the U.S. felt like it could join the Allies without supporting a dictator.
500
Name and describe one of the major battles that led Germany to ask for armistice.
What is the Battle of the Argonne Forest: Allied troops attack Germany near the Argonne forest. Allies win, and Germany loses territory that it had conquered early in the war. Germany realizes how weak it has become.
500
These are the definitions for espionage and sedition. What was the purpose of the Espionage Act and Sedition Act?
Espionage = spying. Sedition = words or actions that rebel against government. The Espionage and Sedition Acts were designed to stop people from speaking out against WWI.
500
Name and describe the new system of government in Russia, which inspired the Red Scare.
Communism: an economic and political system based on the idea that there should be no social classes or private property; everything is communally owned.