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America and the War
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End of the War
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A way of fighting where both sides "dig in" and create a maze in the ground protected by barbed wire and landmines.
What is trench warfare?
100
He was president of the United States during the entirety of World War I.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
100
This message sent to the German minister in Mexico that told Mexico to attack America if the USA declared war on Germany.
What is the Zimmermann telegraph?
100
A prewar agreement between Austria-Hungary, Germany, and Italy.
What is the Triple Alliance?
100
It is the treaty that ended World War I that was hard on Germany and created a League of Nations.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
200
It ship was sunk on May 7, 1915 by a German submarine. It was a passenger ship with nearly 1,200 people on-board.
What is the Lusitania?
200
He was the leader of the Allied forces during the offensive attacks.
Who is Ferdinand Foch.
200
This country's revolution removed their leader, known as a czar, and caused the United States to enter the war.
What is Russia?
200
A prewar agreement between France Russia and Britain.
What is the Triple Entente?
200
It was the group who decided on the treaty to end the war that included Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau, and Vittorio Orlando.
What is the Big Four?
300
It was a battle that lasted 3 weeks. It took place in a forest, or wood, outside of Paris.
What is the Battle of Belleau Wood?
300
The leader of the Food Administration. His job was to boost American food production.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
300
This word describes a person who is unable to read or write. This was common in US soldiers of the time.
What is illiterate?
300
A group of nations that included France Britain, Russia, and 21 other countries made during the war.
What is the Allied Powers?
300
It was President Wilson's plan of what to include in a treaty to end the war. It's main point was "peace without victory".
What is the Fourteen Points?
400
This battle took place in a forest in France near Verdun. It lasted 47 days.
What is the Battle of the Argonne Forest?
400
The leader of the American Expeditionary force in France.
Who is General John J. Pershing?
400
She was the first woman in Congress. She voted against the Declaration of War.
Who is Jeannette Rankin?
400
A group of nations made during the war that included Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Ottoman empire.
What is the Central Powers?
400
It is the name for large cash payments for damages. Germany was forced to pay over $300 billion in these.
What are reparations?
500
It was a battle where 6,000 Germans massed around a small British force in a town for which the battle is named.
What is the Battle of Amiens?
500
He was czar of Russia during the Russian revolution in 1917.
Who is Czar Nicholas II?
500
It was a patriotic song written about the confidence Americans had in the war effort.
What is "Over There"?
500
It was Russia's way of getting out of the war. Signed in March 1918, this treaty gave land to Germany in order to obtain peace.
What is the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
500
He was a Republican Senator from Massachusetts who led the opposition to the League of Nations.
Who is Henry Cabot Lodge?