Dates
The beginning of WWI was
1914
True or False: The U.S. suffered the least casualties out of any country in the war
True, they joined late.
True or False: The U.S. Congress voted against the Treaty of Versailles
True
The U.S. got into the war during
1917
A major way that the U.S. got people into the military was through the
Selective Service Act/the draft
Woodrow Wilson gave the speech "Fourteen Points of Peace" to try and
Provide a blueprint for peace after WWI was over.
The ship that was sunk by Germany that killed 128 Americans was
The Lusitania
The fighting in WWI ceased on
1918
It took about _ months for the American military to arrive in Europe.
2
Germany's motivation behind the Zimmerman note was
To make an alliance with Mexico and put them against the Americans
One way that America gained support for the war was through
Committee on Public Information (or CPI).
The Treaty of Versailles was signed on
1919
Before the U.S. joined the war, they maintained a process of...
Neutrality
There were ______ people in the armed forces during WWI
4 million
What policy did Germany violate that led to America joining the war
Unrestricted submarine warfare.
The U.S. spent an estimated _______ dollars in WWI
$32 billion.
WWI officially ended on
1919
What was the purpose of the Bullitt mission in Soviet Russia
To gauge political and economic situations and secretly to try and end the Russian civil war to be able to withdraw the Allied soldiers that are blocked off.
The way the Mexican-American war impacted the U.S. was that
Germany tried to capitalize on Mexico having tensions with America and decided to try and ally them against America.
The amount of people in the armed forces that died was approximately
115,000