New Fighting
A type of combat in war in which opposing troops fight from trenches facing each other. They run across "No Man's Land" to advance to the opposing trenches.
Trench Warfare
Allies or Central Powers? France, England, Italy, Portugal, Italy, Russia, Serbia, Romania, Montenegro, Belgium
Allies
Name of the British ship that was sunk by the Germans with 128 Americans on board. This event helped sparked a movement in America to join WW1.
Lusitania
A group of volunteer solders led by Teddy Roosevelt who were Cowboys, Native Americans, college athletes & hunters
Rough Riders
Name of the waterway in central America created and built by America in order to make trading and shipping easier between different territories in the world. America took this land from Columbia.
Panama Canal
Name three terrible conditions that soldiers faced during trench warfare
Rats, lice, trench foot, shell shock, etc.
Allies or Central Powers? Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Germany, Ottoman Empire
Central Powers
What did England intercepted from Germany to Mexico to try to get Mexico to align with them in WW1? This IS what pushed America to join WW1
Zimmerman Telegram
Name of the US ship that was believed to be blown up by Spain. Pushed America into the Spanish American War
USS Maine
A type of journalism that started around the Spanish American War where they exaggerate events in order to get a reaction out of people
Yellow Journalism
The area of land between two trenches during trench warfare. Sides would rush through this land in order to advance and push back the opposing force.
No Man's Land
Name two empires or countries that are gone from WWI
Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Montenegro, Serbia
Name of the speech that Woodrow Wilson that was his plan to solve the war and achieve "world peace"
14 points
This amendment stated the US would not annex Cuba but give control to its people
Teller Amendment
An act that allowed the government to temporary expand the military through conscription (a draft)
Selective Service Act
Similar to PTSD, this was the term for a mental breakdown caused from the intensity of WW1
Shell Shock
Name two new countries created from WW1
Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, Turkey, Syria-Lebanon, Iraq
African American Infantry unit in WW1 that spent more time in combat than any other unit, achieving many important victories
Harlem Hellfighters
This amendment changed the Teller amendment by allowing the US to intervene in Cuba if they needed to and allowed the US to build a military base, Guantanamo Bay
Platt Amendment
Volunteers authorized by the President to give a 4 minute speech to motivate Americans to rally behind the war effort
4 minute men
What are four new weapon technologies from WW1?
Tanks, Poisonous gas, machine guns and submarines
The name of the treaty at the end of WW1
Treaty of Versailles
Armed forces that US sent to Europe in WW1
American Expedenditary Force
Name all four territories gained by the US from the Spanish American War
Puerto Rico, Cuba, Hawaii, Philippines
Laws that criminalized any disloyal, profane and abusive language towards America's involvement in WW1
Espionage and Sedition Act