WWI Basics
This was the first modernized global conflict in world history from 1914–1918.
What is World War I?
Information that is biased or misleading used to promote a political cause.
What is propaganda?
The sinking of this ship by German U-boats helped turn American opinion toward war.
What was the RMS Lusitania?
A chemical weapon used by both sides during WWI?
What is mustard gas.
This is the treaty that ended WW1:
Treaty of Versailles
A coalition including Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria during WWI.
What were the Central Powers
The institution that can formally declare war in the United States.
What is Congress?
A telegraph intercepted by Britain proposing an alliance between Mexico and Germany?
What was the Zimmerman Telegram
German submarine vessels used to attack ships in WWI?
What are U-boats
Nickname for American soldiers who entered WWI in 1917?
Who were the Doughboys
This coalition included Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan, Russia, and the United States during WWI.
Who were the Entente Powers (Allies)
The act that raised a national army through conscription during WWI.
What is the Selective Service Act?
A type of land warfare using long ditches and defensive trenches?
What is trench warfare
The two presidents after Theodore Roosevelt?
Who was William Howard Taft
Who was Woodrow Wilson
This man's assassination is what sparked the war?
Franz Ferdinand
New technology responsible for the deadliest firepower in WWI?
What are machine guns