Great Britain
Law passed by Congress in 1917 that required all men from ages 21 to 30 to register for the military draft
What is the Selective Service?
The process of assembling troops and supplies and making them ready for war
What is mobilization?
Created by Wilson during WWI - Led by Herbert Hoover - set up ration system to save food for soldiers
What is the Food Administration?
to deliberately destroy or damage the war effort.
What is sabotage?
The revolution in Russia and the temporary democratic government led the U.S. to believe WWI was a war for democracy. This was the reason Russia withdrew from WWI.
What is the Russian Revolution?
Germany's Policy of sinking ships with their U-boats, enemy or neutral, that carry war material.
Germany sunk several U.S. merchant ships causing the U.S. to declare war on Germany.
What is Unrestricted Submarine Warfare?
Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause. An effective Allied power propaganda campaign was one reason the U.S. joined the Allied powers in WWI.
What is propaganda?
American citizens were lending money to the government to pay for the war.
What are Liberty Bonds?
Increased_________ with Allied powers and decrease to no_________with Central powers is one reason the U.S. joins the Allied powers in WWI.
What is trade?
Increasing income ______ and corporate______ was one way the U.S. government paid for the WWI.
What are taxes?
To disagree with the war
What is dissent?
A cause of World War I; when a nation expands beyond it's borders and rules over smaller nations.
What is Imperialism?
Germany sent this to Mexico to convince Mexico to attack the U.S.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
A cause of World War I; when nations build up their military forces and weapons.
What are militarism?
Britain, France, Russia, Italy and the United States
What are the Allied Powers?
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire
What are the Central Powers?
The belief that the interests of a single country were more important than cooperation among countries.
What is nationalism?
His assassination led to a web of European countries declaring war on each other due to preexisting alliances. The trigger event that begins WWI.
Who is the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria?
The position of the U.S. at the beginning of WWI.
What is neutral?
In the United States, public opinion about the war was strong, but________________.
What is divided?
A German U-Boat sank this British ship killing more than a thousand people including 128 Americans.
What is the Lusitania?
A cause of World War I; nations created secret ___________vowing to protect one another.
What are alliances?
Great Britain set up this up along the German coast to keep goods from getting through.
What is a blockade?
On April 6, 1917, at President Wilson's request, ___________declared war on Germany.
What is Congress?
The space between areas fighting each other.
What is "no man's land"?