Causes of Word War 1
Who was the president of the United States during World War 1?
Who is Woodrow Wilson
The name of the treaty that officially ended World War 1
What is the Treaty of Versailles
This nation was guaranteed its independence from Spain as a result of the Treaty of Paris in 1898.
What is Cuba?
The Panama Canal was first attempted by a company from which European nation?
What is France?
This telegram from Germany to Mexico was intercepted by Great Britain.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
An intergovernmental organization that was founded due to the acceptance of one of Wilson's 14 Points during the Paris Peace Conference/Treaty of Versailles.
What is the League of Nations
A sensational style of writing that exaggerates the news in order to get more readers or sway public opinion.
What is Yellow Journalism?
The United States received land in Cuba for a naval base here. It is a prison for suspected terrorists.
What is Guantanamo Bay?
This British passenger ship was sunk by the Germans.
What is the Lusitania?
The Bolshevik Revolution that took place in Russia during World War 1 resulted in the formation of which new type of government?
What is a communist government?
Wilson's plan for peace was known as...
What is the Fourteen Points?
The United States paid Spain $20 million for this territory as part of the Treaty of Paris.
What are the Philippines?
Give two reasons why the Panama Canal was so important to both the United States and Teddy Roosevelt.
What is facilitates faster trade (economic reasons) and transportation (military movement).
The U.S. primarily gave financial support to this group
What is the Allied Powers?
This government agency was created to regulate the U.S. economy during World War 1.
What is the War Industries Board?
32 countries attended this conference, and the purpose of the gathering was to write a peace treaty to formally end World War 1.
The Paris Peace Conference
Name 2 reasons why the United States went to war with Spain during the Spanish-American War.
What was Cuban independence, economic opportunity, and public pressure influenced by Yellow Journalism after the explosion of the U.S.S. Maine
Name two reasons that the United States decided to adopt a policy of imperialism in the late 19th century.
What is...
New economic markets, a belief in cultural superiority, a desire to be seen as a world power, and to build the U.S. military.
What were three of the four countries that were part of the Central Powers?
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire.
The Supreme Court case that upheld the Espionage Acts
What is Schenck vs. the U.S. ?
Name two ways that Germany was punished by the Treaty of Versailles.
What is economic, territorial, and military restrictions?
*naming specific changes in German territory, economic punishments, and military restrictions is also fine.
Of the territories that the U.S. gained in the Spanish-American War, name one that is still under some form of control or protection of the United States.
What is Puerto Rico or Guam.
This addendum to the Monroe Doctrine after the Spanish-American War told European nations that if they came into South or Central America, the United States would use military force.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?