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What Started This Renegade?!
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The L.A.W.S.
(Liberty Aided World Society)
Sweet as Victory/
Sour as Defeat
THIS IS SPARTA!!!!!!!!!!!
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The belief of a government that a country should maintain a strong military capability and be prepared to use it aggressively to promote national interests.
What is Militarism
100
Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view
What is Propaganda
100
A United States government agency established on July 28, 1917, during World War I, to coordinate the purchase of war supplies. The organization encouraged companies to use mass-production techniques to increase efficiency and urged them to eliminate waste by standardizing products.
What is War Industries Board
100
An agreement made by opposing sides in a war to stop fighting for a certain time; a truce
What is Armistice
100
A German submarine
What is U-Boats
200
A British ocean liner sunk by a German submarine, caused a major diplomatic uproar
What is Lusitania
200
The practice of spying or of using spies, typically by governments to obtain political and military information
What is Espionage
200
An Act of the United States Congress to cover a broader range of offenses, notably speech and the expression of opinion that cast the government or the war effort in a negative light or interfered with the sale of government bonds
What is Sedition Act of 1918
200
A vegetable garden, especially a home garden, planted to increase food production during a war
What is Victory Gardens
200
A group of merchant vessels sailing together, with or without naval escort, for mutual security and protection, has a much longer history than sometimes suggested
What is Convoy System
300
The action or process of gradually reducing the strength or effectiveness of someone or something through sustained attack or pressure
What is Attrition
300
A group of nations fighting against the Allied Powers during World War I; The members included Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria and their territories
What is Central Powers
300
A group of volunteers authorized by the US President Woodrow Wilson, to give four-minute speeches on topics given to them by The Committee on Public Information
What is Four Minute Men
300
The making of amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged
What is Reparations
300
An internal diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the event of the United States' entering World War I against Germany
What is Zimmerman Telegram
400
The act of assembling and making both troops and supplies ready for war
What is Mobilization
400
Authorized the federal government to raise a national army for the American entry into World War I through the compulsory enlistment of people
What is Selective Service Act of 1917
400
A United States federal agency created in two different incarnations, the first by President Woodrow Wilson from 1918–19 during World War 1 and the second by President Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1942–45 during World War 2
What is National War Labor Board
400
One of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
What is Treaty of Versailles
400
The zone of fighting in western Europe in the First World War, in which the German army engaged the armies to its west, i.e. France, the UK (and its dominions), and, from 1917, the US.
What is Western Front
500
A war bond that was sold in the United States to support the allied cause in World War I
What is Liberty Bonds
500
One of the most decorated soldiers in World War 1
What is Alvin York
500
A promise made in 1916 during World War I by Germany to the United States prior to the latter's entry into the war
What is Sussex Pledge
500
Fourteen goals of the United States in the peace negotiations after World War I
What is Wilson’s 14 Points
500
A type of combat in which opposing troops fight from trenches facing each other
What is Trench Warfare