World War 1 - 1
A union formed between countries for shared benefit. A partnership.
What is an Alliance?
The president during WW1
Who is Woodrow Wilson
Name the reasons 4 WW1 started.
What is MAIN. Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism?
One of the treaties that ended the First World War; it put harsh rules on Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
The US joined WW1 in this year.
What is 1917
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire formed this alliance group.
Who were the Axis Powers
France, Great Britain, Russia formed this alliance group.
Who were the Allied Powers.
A message urging Mexico to attack the U.S. in return for their land back. Sent by Germany
What is the Zimmerman telegram?
A fictional character created by the U.S. government to encourage men to join the Army.
Who is Uncle Sam
An agreement to cease hostilities and stop fighting
What is an armistice?
In order to pay for the war, the US government urged people to buy these.
What are Liberty Bonds.
Organization formed after WWI to promote peace and to settle disputes peacefully instead of going to war.
What is the League of Nations?
A British cruise-liner with 128 Americans on it- torpedoed by a German submarine.
What is the Lusitania?
Information produced by governments, presented in such a way as to inspire and spread certain beliefs or opinions to show support in the war effort or harm the war effort.
What is propaganda?
The area of land in between opposing trenches. It is filled with obstacles such as barbed wire and land mines.
What is No Man's Land?
While the men were at war, women were back home producing these in factories.
What are wartime goods.
payments to cover damages (in war)
What are reparations?
This country was an ally of Germany and Austria-Hungary prior to the war, but ended up fighting against them with the Allies instead.
What is Italy?
The US government introduced this law which required eligible men to sign up for this (2 ANSWERS)
What is the selective service act and draft
A very successful all black regiment that fought in WW1 and heavily for this campaign. (2 ANSWERS)
Who are the Harlem Hell Fighters and the Double V campaign?
This person in WW1 said that American troops shouldn’t be mixed with French and English troops.
Who is John J. Pershing?
A deadlock in which neither side is strong enough to defeat the other. Also, a chess term to describe a player having no legal moves.
What is a stalemate?
These new weapons made WW1 so deadly. (Name 5)
What are: Tanks, long range artillery, submarines, poison gas, war planes, machine guns, and grenades
Name any main 3 points of Wilson’s 14 point peace plan.
The League of Nations, open diplomacy, free trade, equal trade conditions, redraw many borders, and make Poland a thing.
Name the 4 reasons the US got involved in WW1.
1. The reintroduction of unrestricted submarine warfare
2. The sinking of the Lusitania
3. Zimmerman Telegram
4. The Bolsheviks overthrowing their tsar in Russia