Causes
What was "The Spark" of WWI?
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
What is the term that refers to the warfare that involves digging ditches for protection that was largely the warfare in WWI?
Trench Warfare
Which country/empire was the first to sign an armistice signaling the beginning of the end of WWI?
The Ottoman Empire
What word refers to “pacts or treaties that promise financial or military support between nations”?
Alliances
What is the term for when the government borrowed money from people to pay back later called to help fund the war?
Liberty bonds
What was the name of the passenger ship that the Germans sank that had American civilians on board?
The Lusitania
What was the land in between trenches called?
No-Man's Land
What was the peace treaty that President Woodrow Wilson had put together 10 months prior to the armistice called?
The Fourteen Points
Which term refers to an “agreement to stop fighting”?
Armistice
What law did congress pass that required men to register and possibly be enrolled in the military/sent overseas?
Selective service act
What country had to take blame for the war?
Germany
What weapon did Hiram Maxim develop that could shoot bullets rapidly?
Machine Gun
Which treaty officially ended World War I and laid out the penalties that Germany would have to pay?
The Treaty of Versailles
Which term refers to “financial penalties that must be paid by the defeated nation”?
Reparations
What is the term of when thousand of African-Americans moved north for jobs?
The Great Migration
The Zimmermann note was from Germany to what country?
Mexico
What was the name of the machinery used by Germans in sea warfare?
U-Boats
What was the organization that was put together in an effort to stop wars worldwide and instead be able to negotiate through world issues?
The League of Nations
Which term refers to the “belief that a nation should stay out of the politics and military involvements of other nations”?
Isolationism
What act made it illegal to speak negatively about the war?
Sedation Act
This cause of World War I was a policy of building up strong armed forces to prepare for war.
Militarism
Tanks
True or False: The United States joined the League of Nations.
False
Which term refers to “extending the rule of a nation over foreign countries or territories”?
Imperialism
What is the term for posters, songs, speakers, stories, etc. that the US Government used to try to get people to support the war?
Propaganda