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This British luxury liner was sunk by a German U-boat on 7 May 1915.
What is the RMS Lusitania?
100
A senior United States Army officer. His most famous post was when he served as the commander of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) on the Western Front in World War I, 1917–18.
Who is John J. Pershing?
100
Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire.
What is the Triple Alliance (Central Powers)?
100
A vegetable garden, especially a home garden, planted to increase food production during a war.
What are victory gardens?
100
A type of combat in which opposing troops fight from trenches facing each other.
What is trench warfare?
200

At the outset of of World War I, President Wilson asked all Americans "to be impartial in thought as well as in action."

What is American neutrality during World War I?

200

President of the United States during World War I.

Who is Woodrow Wilson?

200
France, Great Britain, Russia and later the United States.
What is the Triple Entente (Allied Powers)?
200
German submarines
What is a U-boat?
200
The document signed between Germany and the Allied Powers following World War I that officially ended that war.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
300
On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month the guns fell silent across Europe.
What is the end of World War I?
300
A blacksmith who was drafted into the army during WWI. While serving in the 82nd Infantry Division, he took command and captured a total of 132 German soldiers.
Who is Alvin York?
300
Cease fire
What is an armistice?
300
The free choice by the people of a territory to choose their own political, economic and social institutions.
What is self-determination?
300
The making of amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged.
What are reparations?
400

A United States Supreme Court case concerning enforcement of the Espionage Act of 1917 during World War I. A unanimous Supreme Court, in an opinion by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., concluded that defendants who distributed fliers to draft-age men, urging resistance to induction, could be convicted of an attempt to obstruct the draft, a criminal offense

What is Schenck v. U.S.?

400
An international organization established after World War I under the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles.
What is the League of Nations?
400
A law passed by the U.S. Congress in May of 1917 that authorized the United States federal government to raise a national army for service in World War I through conscription.
What is the Selective Service Act of 1917?
400
A statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I. The principles were outlined in a January 8, 1918 speech on war aims and peace terms to the United States Congress by President Woodrow Wilson.
What are the Fourteen Points?
400
The widespread fear in the United States, immediately after World War I, about a potential rise of communism, anarchism, or radical leftism.
What is the Red Scare?
500

A communication from the German foreign minister to the German Ambassador in Mexico that proposed an alliance between the two nations.

What is the Zimmermann note?

500
A series of police investigations conducted by the United States Department of Justice to capture, arrest and deport suspected radical leftists, especially foreign-born anarchists, from the United States.
What are the Palmer Raids?
500
A United States government agency established on July 28, 1917, during World War I, to coordinate the purchase of war supplies between the War Department (Department of the Army) and the Navy Department.
What is the War Industries Board?
500
A policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries.
What is isolationism?
500
"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 (Article 231)?