The "Big Four" were the leaders of this World War I alliance
What are the Allied Powers?
100
Basic rights protected by the constitution which were largely taken away by the US Government during the war
What are civil liberties?
100
Publications, songs, and other media created by the US Government to show up support for the war
What is propaganda?
100
This diplomatic system of European countries created a hostile environment likely to set off war at any time
What is the Alliance System?
100
This temporary ceasefire agreement ended the war
What is the armistice?
200
This prominent and pretentious president's pompous provocations prevented his fourteen points from being fully adopted
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
200
Law which allowed the US to institute a draft lottery system
What is the Selective Service Act (1917)?
200
Organization set up by the US government to dictate what industry produced during the war
What is the War Industries Board?
200
These pesky German contraptions sunk many British ships, one of which angered many Americans into wanting to fight the war
What are U-boats?
200
This Wilsonian agenda proved to be too progressive for most of the other "big four" nations, and was mostly rejected in favor of heavy reparations paid by Germany
What are the Fourteen Points?
300
This French journalist and later Prime Minister was pressured by public opinion to push for German reparations
Who is George Clemenceau?
300
Law passed by Congress which prohibited anyone to speak out against the war or the government
What is the Sedition Act (1918)?
300
Money that the US Government borrowed from its citizens and businesses to raise funds for the war
What are Liberty Loans?
300
These three "isms" caused schisms throughout Europe, contributing to the toxic situation which led to war
What are nationalism, militarism, and imperialism?
300
This agreement negotiated in a former Louis XIV luxury palace ended one "great" or "world" war, but may have led to another
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
400
Britain's wartime leader who pushed heavily for German punishment
Who is David Lloyd George?
400
Law which forced all non-English newspapers covering the war to be translated for the Postmaster General
What is the Espionage Act?
400
This future US president first became famous for his organizational genius in producing enough food for the US soldiers, US citizens, and most of Europe
Who is Herbert Hoover?
400
This memo sent by a blundering German foreign minister might have cost his country the war
What is the Zimmermann Telegraph?
400
This predecessor to the United Nations was the crown jewel of President Wilson's plans, but foiled by opposition in his own country
What was the league of nations?
500
Italy's ineffective representation at the Paris Peace Conference who was forced to resign before the treaty was signed
Who is Vittorio Orlando?
500
Perennial Socialist Candidate for president who was arrested for protesting the war and ran for president from inside jail
Who is Eugene Debs?
500
Head of the War Industries Board
Who was Bernard Brauch?
500
This is the term given to the "explosive" situation in Eastern Europe which truly ignited after Archduke Franz Ferdinand's assasination
What was the "Powder Keg" of Europe (the Balkans)?
500
Wilson's arch-rival in the Senate who fought tooth and nail against passing the Treaty of Versailles