Lesson 1: Road to War
the rise of this was a cause of tension
What is nationalism?
The secret telegram sent to Mexico by Germany proposing an alliance against America.
What was the Zimmerman Note?
the U.S. forces that fought in Europe during World War I
What is the American Expeditionary Force?
Payments for war damages.
What are reparations?
Henery Cabot Lodge received a Nobel Peace Prize.
False.
the spark of the war
A nationwide campaign that influenced people's opinions and helped gain American support for the war.
What is Propaganda?
the country that left the war due to Communists
What is Russia?
The peace settlement of World War 1.
What was the Treaty of Versailles?
The spark of the war was the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand.
True.
what U-boats launched against Allied supply ships
What are torpedoes?
Goverment issued war bonds that funded the War.
What were Liberty Bonds?
the system that protected ships from U-boats
The international assembly of nations.
Democratic senator Henery Cabot Lodge heavily insisted on changing the terms of peace for World War 1.
False.
the pattern of trenches in trench warfare
What is a zigzag pattern?
The act that required men between the ages 21 and 30 to register to be drafted into the war.
What was the Selective Service Act?
the year U.S. troops started to arrive in Europe
What is 1917?
About 5 million Allied soldiers and 3.5 million soldiers on the Central Powers.
How many soldiers died in combat?
Wilson's Fifteen Points was a list of specific proposals for postwar peace.
False.
this weapon was outlawed by international treaties
What is poisonous gas?
The board that President Wilson set up and helped workers and management avoid strikes and reach agreements.
What was the National War Labor Board?
the turning point of the war
What is the Second Battle of Marne
The place where the influenza epidemic supposedly derived from.
What was an army camp in Kansas?
Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire quit the war in the fall of 1918.
True.