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An agreement made by opposing sides in a war to stop fighting for a certain time; a truce.
What is Armstice?
100
A type of combat in which opposing troops fight from trenches facing each other.
What is Trench Warfare?
100
The action or process of gradually reducing the strength or effectiveness of someone or something through sustained attack or pressure.
What is Attrition?
100
The practice of spying or of using spies, typically by governments to obtain political and military information.
What is Espionage?
100
A German submarine.
What is U-boat?
200
The belief or desire of a government or people that a country should maintain a strong military capability and be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests.
What is Militarism?
200
A vegetable garden, especially a home garden, planted to increase food production during a war.
What is Victory Garden?
200
A group of nations fighting against the Allied Powers during World War I; The members included Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria and their territories.
What is Central Powers?
200
Act of assembling and making both troops and supplies ready for war. The word mobilization was first used, in a military context, in order to describe the preparation of the Russian army during the 1850s and 1860s.
What is Mobilization?
200
An internal diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the event of the United States' entering World War I against Germany.
What is Zimmerman Telegram?
300
Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
What is Propaganda?
300
Act of the United States Congress that extended the Espionage Act of 1917 to cover a broader range of offenses, notably speech and the expression of opinion that cast the government or the war effort in a negative light.
What is Sedition Act of 1918?
300
A group of merchant vessels sailing together, with or without naval escort, for mutual security and protection, has a much longer history than sometimes suggested.
What is Convoy System?
300
United States government agency established on July 28, 1917, during World War I, to coordinate the purchase of war supplies.
What is War Industries Board?
300
The idea that some form of compensatory payment should be made to the descendants of Africans who had been enslaved as part of the Atlantic Slave Trade.
What is Reparations?
400
British ocean liner that was sunk by a German submarine in World War I, causing a major diplomatic uproar.
What is Lusitania?
400
One of the most decorated soldiers of the United States Army in World War I. He received the Medal of Honor for leading an attack on a German machine gun nest, taking 35 machine guns, killing at least 28 German soldiers, and capturing 132 others.
Who is Alvin York?
400
A group of volunteers authorized by the US President Woodrow Wilson, to give four-minute speeches on topics given to them by The Committee on Public Information.
What is Four Minute Men?
400
One of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
What is Treaty of Versailles?
400
Main theatre of war during World War I. Following the outbreak of war in August 1914, the German Army opened the Western Front by invading Luxembourg and Belgium, then gaining military control of important industrial regions in France.
What is Western Front?
500
War bond that was sold in the United States to support the allied cause in World War I.
What is Liberty Bond?
500
United States federal agency created in two different incarnations, the first by President Woodrow Wilson from 1918–19 during World War I and the second by President Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1942–45 during World War II.
What is National War Labor Board?
500
Authorized the federal government to raise a national army for the American entry into World War I through the compulsory enlistment of people. It was envisioned in December 1916 and brought to President Woodrow Wilson's attention shortly after the break in relations with Germany in February 1917.
What is Selective Service Act of 1917?
500
Statement of principles for world peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I.
What are Wilson’s 14 Points?
500
Promise made in 1916 during World War I by Germany to the United States prior to the latter's entry into the war. Early in 1915, Germany had instituted a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare, allowing armed merchant ships, but not passenger ships, to be torpedoed without warning.
What is Sussex Pledge?