On the Home front
In order to promote the war, this type of communication was used to influence others. Examples are posters, speeches, etc.
What is Propaganda?
What is trench foot?
This man was the President of the United States during World War I.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This was Wilson's plan for peace after the war.
What is Fourteen Points?
This disease swept through the trenches and even made its way back to the US.
What is the Spanish Flu?
This is defined as sharing equally. It was used to ensure that there would be enough food and supplies to send to the troops in Europe.
What is rationing?
This is the area between each opposing side's trenches. It is marked with craters and barbed wire.
What is No Man's Land?
This man was the German flying ace whose death is shrouded in mystery.
Who is the Red Baron?
This was very important to Wilson and involved countries around world joining together in an effort to prevent any future wars.
What is the League of Nations?
This is an agreement to stop/cease fighting.
What is an armistice?
This was the motto of the National War Labor Board because almost no one was unemployed during this time period.
What is "Work or Fight"?
This was a toxic gas that was used during the war and would sink into the trenches.
What is Chlorine Gas or Mustard Gas?
This US general was placed in command of the US troops in World War I.
Who is Pershing?
This is the term used for repaying a debt to those who have been wronged.
What is reparations?
This communication between Germany and Mexico was intercepted prior to the US joining the war.
What is the Zimmerman telegram?
This was put into place by the War Industries board to encourage everyone to save gas for the war effort.
What are gas-less Sundays?
This was developed in part to get across the treacherous divide between opposing trench lines.
What is a tank?
This man overthrew Diaz and the Mexican government during a revolution and seized control in the early 1900s.
Who is Victoriano Huerta?
This country had been one of the Allies/Entente but was not present at the Paris Peace Talks or at the signing of the Treaty of Versailles.
What is Russia?
This British ship was attacked by German U-boats and sank. Many passengers lost their lives on this ship in 1915.
What is the Lusitania?
This was one of the two cases in 1919 that dealt with the Sedition Act.
What is Schenck v. US or Debs v. US?
This was the number of years that passed by before the US entered the war.
What is three?
This Austro-Hungarian man was assassinated by Serbian rebels just prior to the start of World War I.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
Who is Italy?
This was developed to get merchant ships successfully around those U-Boats and involved using a heavy guard of destroyers.
What is the convoy system?