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The 369th Regiment of Black soldier recruited in New York City.
Who are the Harlem Hellfighters?
Location of an Allied attack in late September 1918 that forced Germany's surrender in November.
What is the Meuse-Argonne Offensive?
British passenger liner sunk by German U-boats that killed 128 Americans.
What is the Lusitania?
Germany promised to spare all lives in any future U-boat attack if England would end its naval blockade of the Baltic Sea.
What is the Sussex pledge?
Marine weapon developed by Germany to control shipping on the Atlantic Ocean.
What are U-boats?
The contingent of soldiers sent by the United States to take part in World War I.
What is the American Expeditionary Force?
The movement of Black Americans out of the southern states and into northern industrial cities to gain employment in the war industries.
What is the Great Migration?
This proposal by Germany to Mexico that promised a return of the Mexican Cession from the United States drew America into World War I.
What is the Zimmermann Note?
What is the Convoy System?
The alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire.
What are the Central Powers?
Members of the Industrial Workers of the World labor union.
What are Wobblies?
The Armistice that ended World War I was signed at 11:00 a.m. on November 11 in what location?
What is Versailles, France?
A national draft that required every man between the ages of 21 and 30 to register for military service.
What is the Selective Service Act?
Certificates issued by the government to raise funds for the war effort.
What are Liberty Bonds?
The nations opposed to the Central Powers: France, the United Kingdom, Russia, and the United States.
Who are the Allied Powers?
An organization of member nations attempting to keep the peace following World War I.
What is the League of Nations?
This new military weapon made assaulting trenches easier while protecting the soldiers manning it.
What is a tank?
Criminalized attempted interference with the military draft.
What is the Espionage Act?
Criminalized saying anything disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive about the government.
What is the Sedition Act?
Song written by George M. Cohan that motivate many Americans to support the war mobilization efforts of the Woodrow Wilson Administration.
What is Over There?
President Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau, and Vittorio Orlando.
Who are the Big Four?
This new weapon was mostly used for reconnaissance missions prior to the development of aerial combat mechanization.
What is the airplane?
Supreme Court ruling that the government has the right to restrict speech that presents a "clear and present danger" to national security.
President Woodrow Wilson's plan for a post-war world.
What are the Fourteen Points?
Ordered Germany to accept responsibility for instigating the war and pay $33 billion in war reparations.
What is the war-guilt clause?