VOCABULARY
Agreement between nations to provide aid and protect one another
Alliance
These duties consisted of cleaning and caring for the house, caring for the young, cooking for the family, maintaining a yard, and sewing clothing for all.
Homemaker
Guns could now fire 600 rounds per minute.
This act was passed to help enlist more soldiers to help fight in the war.
Selective Service Act
President of the United States during WW1
Woodrow Wilson
The area between the Central Powers and Allied Powers on the battlefield
No Mans Land
Many women went to work in the munitions factories that produced weapons, bullets and shells. These women were called
Munitionettes
This kind of battle tactic almost directly resulted in a stalemate.
Trench Warfare
The name of the treaty that officially ended WW1.
Treaty of Versailles
Name of the Serbian nationalist group that was involved in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
The Black Hand
Women organization where women were involved with communication and transport jobs, for example, maintaining cars.
W.A.A.C
Women organization where women worked as engineers, electricians, cooks, radar officers and administrators.
W.R.N.S
Chemical Warfare resulted in the mass production of these defense mechanisms.
Woodrow Wilson created this plan to present to Congress to help bring the war to an end.
Fourteen Points
This group consisted of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria
The Central Powers
Made it a crime for American citizens to "print, utter, or publish... any false, scandalous, and malicious writing" about the government
Sedition Act
*DAILY DOUBLE*
Women organization where women worked as drivers, engineers, welders, cooks in the forces’ kitchens and as seamstresses in the workshops.
W.R.A.F
Poison Gas was also known as what?
Mustard Gas
On November 3, 1918, this country surrendered to the allies.
Austria-Hungary
This group was created after the Treaty of Versailles was drawn up.
League of Nations
*DAILY DOUBLE*
A policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries).
Isolationism
Gave married women over the age of 30 the right to vote in General Elections.
The Representation of the People Act in 1918
These were used to sank U.S merchant ships such as the Lusitania
Submarines
Factors that resulted in the U.S joining the war.
Germany ignored Wilson plea for peace; the Zimmerman Note; sinking of four unarmed merchant ships
The Allied leaders were also called this.
Council of Ten