Events
Vocabulary
Organizations
Allied Powers
Central Powers
100

A German U-boat sank this British passenger liner. Nearly 1200 people, including 128 Americans were killed.

What is the Lusitania?

100

Defending a position by fighting from the protection of deep ditches.

What is trench warfare?

100

This committee organized rallies and parades, and published posters and pamphlets in "selling" the war to the American people.

What is the Committee on Public Information (CPI)?

100

This country pulled out of World War I because of food riots, and deaths of millions of their soldiers.

What is Russia?

100

The peace settlement of World War I

What is the Treaty of Versailles?

200

German troops crossing into Belgium

What is Britain entering WWI?

200

A situation in which neither side can win a decisive victory.

What is a stalemate?

200

This act required men between the ages of 21 and 30 to register to be drafted.

What is the Selective Service Act?

200

Goods prohibited from shipment to Germany or its allies.

What is contraband?

200

Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungary, and Germany.

What are the Central Powers?

300

Proposed an alliance against the U.S. Germany would help Mexico recapture areas that Mexico had lost during the Mexican-American War.

What is the Zimmerman Note?

300

The aggressive strengthening of armed forces.

What is militarism?

300

U.S. created this organization to produce and distribute steel, copper, cement and rubber; increased food supplies to troops; guaranteed farmers high prices for their crops.

What is the War Industries Board (WIB)?

300

Method of loaning money to the government to pay for war.

What is Liberty Bonds?

300

This country was responsible for reparations after World War I.

What is Germany?

400

This leader was killed by an assassin. This act sparked World War I.

Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?

400

Truce between warring nations

What is an armistice

400

International assembly of nations designed to settle international disputes and encourage democracy.

What is the League of Nations?

400

Spying to acquire government secrets.

What is espionage?

400

This Central Power had the most deaths in World War I.

What is Germany?

500

African Americans moving from the South to Northern cities

What is the Great Migration?

500

Payments for war damages.

What are reparations?

500

This board or organization helped workers and management avoid strikes and reach agreements

What is the National War Labor Board?

500

This organizations effectively silenced criticism of the war at home.

What is the Sedition Act?

500

This political group took power in Russia and established a Communist government.

Who are the Bolsheviks?