"This means war!"
The first ship to be sunk by German U-Boats that killed American civilians (128)
What is the Lusitania?
Woodrow Wilson created ____________ to resolve disputes between laborers and business owners in order to avoid strikes
What is the National Labor Board?
Defending a position by fighting from the protection of deep ditches
What is Trench Warfare?
The name of the WWI peace treaty
What is the Versailles Treaty?
One way in which the war helped women gain Suffrage. Explain
Multiple answers acceptable. Demonstrating that women could do the same jobs as men. Suffrage is the right to vote!
The four main causes of WWI
What are Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism?
The type of bonds used to fund financial contributions to the Allies
What are Liberty Bonds?
German submarines used to launch torpedoes against Allied supply ships
What are U-Boats?
The country blamed for starting WWI
What is Germany?
the spreading of ideas,information,or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution,cause, or person
What is Propaganda?
Heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary. Killed by Gavrilo Princip.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
The act that required all men from the ages of 21 to 30 to register to be drafted
What is Selective Service Act?
A situation in which neither side can win a decisive victory
What is a Stalemate?
Woodrow Wilson's 14th Point
The Allied Powers
Who are France, Britain, and Russia?
Zimmerman's Note and it's implications
What is a secret telegram; Germany proposed alliance with Mexico, and the implication: U.S. interprets this as an act of war
The result of Schenck vs U.S.
What is convicted of violating the Espionage Act of 1917?
The way that Germany tried to stop the U.S. from helping the Allies (before the U.S. officially joined the war as combatants)
What is by sinking passenger ships with their U-Boats?
The American Senator who opposed joining The League of Nations
Who is Henry Cabot Lodge?
The Central Powers (two main ones + at least one of the others)
What is the Sussex Pledge, how did it gets its name, and was it upheld
A pledge from Germany saying they would stop sinking American/British civilian ships. Named after the Sussex. No, it was not upheld.
A policy where the U.S. avoided getting involved in WWI
What is Neutrality?
Militarism
What is the aggressive strengthening of the military?
Hefty sums of money that Germany was forced to pay after the war did this to the German economy
What is "crushed it," prevented it from recovering, which lead to the socio-economic conditions necessary to promote someone like Hitler to a position of power
The one nation that had an alliance with what would become the Central Powers, but switched to be aligned with the Allies after war broke out
What is Italy