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Who's Who in WW1
Battles
Technology
Opposing the War
Vocabulary
100
This man's assassination sparked the beginning of WW1.
Who is Franz Ferdinand?
100
This battle took place in the Argonne Forest and was a major battle that ended WW1.
What is the Battle of Argonne Forest?
100
These were rapid firing guns that mowed down soldiers.
What are machine guns?
100
These people refused to fight wars because they thought that war was evil.
What are pacifists?
100
This is the name given to a rapid spread of a contagious disease.
What is an epidemic?
200
He lead the American Expeditionary Force.
Who is General John J. Pershing?
200
This battle was the first major American battle in WW1. It took place right outside of Paris.
What is the Battle of Belleau Wood?
200
These German submarines blockaded British ports.
What are u-boats?
200
These people argued that World War One benefited factory owners but not workers. Therefore, they greatly opposed the war.
What are socialists?
200
This is an agreement to stop fighting.
What is a armistice?
300
He was the president of the U.S.A. at the beginning of WW1.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
300
This battle was a ten month long ordeal between French and German armies. The battle is recorded to have the most dead per square yard.
What is the Battle of Verdun?
300
This weapon caused so many disabilities and deaths that nations later agreed to get rid of it.
What is poison gas?
300
A progressive who opposed the war. She was also the leader in the settlement house movement.
Who is Jane Addams?
300
This is the right of national groups to their own territory and forms of government.
What is self-determination?
400
He lead the Food Administration in the U.S. during WW1.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
400
This was the last battle fought in WW1. This battle includes both the Second Battle of Guise and the Battle of Theirache.
What is the Second Battle of the Sambre?
400
This vehicle ultimately defeated trench warfare.
What is the tank?
400
She was the first woman elected to Congress and she greatly opposed WW1.
Who is Jeannette Rankin?
400
This was the name given to people in the U.S. who wanted the U.S. to stay out of foreign affairs.
What are Isolationists?
500
This American took out an entire nest of German machine gunners with a rifle.
Who is Alvin York?
500
This was the first battle in WW1. It was the opening engagement of the German invasion on Belgium.
What is the Battle of Liege?
500
These were British attack vessels disguised as civilian ships to counter German submarines.
What are Q-ships?
500
He was a socialist candidate for president five times. He was also jailed for protesting the draft.
Who is Eugene V. Debs?
500
This word means to give up power. This is what the German emperor had to do at the end of WW1.
What is abdicate?