This U.S. soldier was one of the most decorated American soldiers in World War I. He received the Medal of Honor for leading an attack on a German machine gun nest, taking 32 machine guns, killing 28 German soldiers and capturing 132 others.
Who is Alvin York?
100
A broad foreign affairs doctrine that says nation is best served by holding the affairs of other nations at a distance.
What is Isolationism?
100
At the beginning of World War I, this President proclaimed that the United States would be neutral in "word and in deed."
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
100
This statement laid out a policy of free trade, open agreements between nations, democracy and self-determination.
What are Wilson's Fourteen Points?
100
This refers to the paying of funds and/or transfer of property to amend a wrongdoing or injury done.
What is a reparation?
200
This man was a general officer in the United States Army who led the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I. He is the only person to be promoted in his own lifetime to the highest rank ever held in the United States Army—General of the Armies a retroactive Congressional edict passed in 1976 promoted George Washington to the same rank but with higher seniority.
Who is John J. Pershing?
200
This U.S. government agency was established 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 the War Industries Board?
200
The assassination of this man is generally viewed as the "spark" that ignited the Great War.
Who is Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand?
200
This was 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. The other Central Powers on the German side of World War I were dealt with in separate treaties.
What is the Treaty of Versailles (1919)?
200
This terms refers specifically to military submarines operated by Germany, particularly in World War I and World War II.
What is a Undersea boat (U-boat)?
300
This was Germany's strategy to avoid a two front war in Europe by taking Paris, France and turning east to Russia.
What is the Schlieffen Plan?
300
This policy states that a nation will not favor or assist either side in a war, dispute, contest, or controversy
What is Neutrality?
300
This communication was a 1917 diplomatic proposal from the German Empire for Mexico to join the Central Powers, in the event of the United States entering World War I on the side of the Entente Powers. The proposal was intercepted and decoded by British intelligence.
What is the Zimmerman telegram?
300
This was an intergovernmental organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. It was the first international organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace
What is the League of Nations?
300
German Empire, Austria-Hungary and Ottoman Empire
What are the Central Powers?
400
This man is best known for his positions on foreign policy, especially his battle with President Woodrow Wilson in 1919 over the Treaty of Versailles. He demanded Congressional control of declarations of war; Wilson refused and the United States Senate never ratified the Treaty nor joined the League of Nations.
Who is Henry Cabot Lodge?
400
Germany, seeking to avoid war with the United States, promised to suspend its surprise attacks on merchant vessels.
What is the Sussex Pledge?
400
On 7 May 1915, this British ocean was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat, with the loss of 1198 lives, including 128 Americans.
What is the RMS Lusitania?
400
The Allied and Associated Governments affirm and Germany accepts the responsibility of Germany and her allies for causing all the loss and damage to which the Allied and Associated Governments and their nationals have been subjected as a consequence of the war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her allies.
What is the War Guilt Clause?
400
France, Great Britain, Russia... United States (1917).
What is the Allied Powers?
500
This is the peace agreement between Germany and the Soviet Union in 1918.
Who is the Brest-Litovsk treaty?
500
This legislation authorized the federal government to raise a national army for the American entry into World War I through conscription. It was envisioned in December 1916 and brought to President Woodrow Wilson's attention shortly after the break in relations with Germany in February 1917.
What is the Selective Service Act?
500
After four long years of brutal fighting, Germany signed an armistice on this date.
What is 11 November 1918?
500
This international concept is based on respect for the principle of fair equality of opportunity have the right to freely choose their sovereignty and international political status with no external compulsion or interference.
What is Self-Determination?
500
President Wilson makes his case for war to Congress on this date, by saying: "The World must be safe for democracy."