So It Begins
Home Sweet Home
BOOM! BANG!
Peace? Kinda...
The Art of Persuasion
100
What does M.A.I.N stand for?
What is MILITARISM, ALLIANCES, IMPERIALISM, NATIONALISM
100
Americans were encouraged to buy these to help fund the war effort.
What are war bonds
100
THIS form of chemical warfare was used for the first time in WWI
What is Poison Gas/Mustard Gas
100
This president created a plan for peace known as the Fourteen Points.
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
100
What is his name?
What is Uncle Sam
200
The Serbian gang, "The Black Hand" assassinated THIS Archduke in Bosnia in 1914 SPARKING the official start of the war.
BONUS: +50 if you name his country as well
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand
BONUS: Austria-Hungary
200
This social group left domestic life and took on industrial jobs when men went off to fight.
Who are women
200
This technology allowed Germany to sink Allied ships unseen beneath the water’s surface.
What are U-Boats (submarines)
200
The massive payments that Germany needed to pay Allied Nations, according to the Treaty of Versailles, were called...
What are reparations
200
Who is the intended audience of this piece of propaganda?
What are young American men
300
What was Germany asking Mexico to do in the infamous "Zimmerman Telegram" that was intercepted by the British in 1917?
What is invade the US?
300
The Espionage and Sedition Acts limited this basic American right during wartime.
hint: it prohibited people from criticizing the government and war
What is freedom of speech
300
Name of the extremely dangerous space between the two enemy trenches.
What is "No Man's Land"
300
Many historians argue that the Treaty of Versailles directly contributed to this later global conflict.
What is World War II
300
What feeling is this propaganda attempting to invoke in Americans?
What is a sense of NATIONALISM
400
Before the war, Europe was divided into two major alliance systems. One was the Triple Alliance. The other was this.
What is the Allied Powers OR the Triple Entente
400
True or false: African American men were allowed to serve in the US army during WWI.
TRUE
400
Germany's attack on all ships in the open seas, whether or not they were holding civilians, was known as...
what is unrestricted submarine warfare
400
What was forced to take full responsibility for World War I?
Who is Germany
400
what key cause of the war is this cartoon depicting?
What is Alliances
500
Arrange the following causes in the order they pulled the U.S. closer to war:
(a) Germany resumes unrestricted submarine warfare
(b) Zimmerman Telegram is intercepted
(c) Sinking of the Lusitania
(d) U.S. declares war on Germany
(c) Lusitania → (a) Submarine warfare → (b) Zimmerman Telegram → (d) U.S. declares war
500
Because battles were being fought both at the Russian border, AND at the French border, what to refer to WWI as?
What is a "Two Front War"
500
Airplanes were first used in WWI primarily for this purpose.
What is reconnaissance aka SPYING
500
Name a country that was formed in Europe because of the Treaty of Versailles.
What are Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, or Yugoslavia
500
What unsuccessful policy is this cartoonist criticizing?
What is the American policy of neutrality