The aggressive build up of armed forces to intimidate and threaten other nations.
What is militarism?
100
This is information designed to influence opinion.
What is propaganda?
100
These are monetary compensation for all of the war damage it had caused. Germany was forced to pay these.
What is reparations?
100
This is a strike that involves all workers in a community, not just workers in a particular industry.
What is a general strike?
100
Families were encouraged to conserve food and grow their own vegetables in these.
What are victory gardens?
200
Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary formed this alliance.
What is the Triple Alliance?
200
Supporters of this movement believed that preparing for war was the best way to stay out of the conflict.
What is the "preparedness movement"?
200
A truce, or agreement, to stop fighting. Occurred on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918.
What is an armistice?
200
This is the most famous strike of 1919.
What is the Boston Police Strike?
200
Spying to acquire government information.
What is espionage?
300
Britain, France, and Russia became known as the this........
What is the Triple Entente?
300
These are goods prohibited from shipment to Germany and its allies.
What is contraband?
300
Treaty that was signed at a peace conference in France, ending the war with Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
300
This was one of the largest strikes in American history.
What is The Steel Strike?
300
This was a new conscription system that required all men between 21 and 30 to register for the draft.
What is selective service?
400
France and Russia had a common enemy in Germany and Austria-Hungary. Together they formed this alliance.
What is the Franco-Russian Alliance?
400
This was intercepted by British intelligence and leaked to U.S. newspapers. It stated that Mexico would regain its "lost territories" if they aided Germany in the war.
What is the Zimmerman telegram?
400
This was the peace plan that President Wilson had created and then took with him to the peace conference.
What is the Fourteen Points?
400
This was a series of raids that targeted the offices of the Union of Russian Workers in 12 cities.
What are the Palmer Raids?
400
This was established in 1917 to coordinate the production of war materials.
What is the War Industries Board?
500
The Triple Alliance joined with the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria to form this alliance.
What are the Central Powers?
500
The sinking of these two ships by German submarines caused the U.S. to rethink staying out of the war.
What are the Lusitania and the Sussex?
500
The was the final and most important point in Wilson's Fourteen Points. It was originally referred to as a "general association of nations".
What is the League of Nations?
500
This was a widespread panic caused by the fear that communism had infiltrated the U.S. It led to people being overly cautious of each other.
What is the Red Scare?
500
This was established in 1918. It attempted to mediate labor disputes that might otherwise lead to strikes.