Causes
Where a group of countries promise
to defend each other if attacked
What are Alliances?
The type of fighting that took place in WWI
What is Trench Warfare?
This began the draft in the United States:
What is the Selective Service Act?
Americans did this to cut back (ration) on food supplies
What are Meatless-Wheatless Day
Victory Gardens?
The treaty that ended WWI
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Where a stronger country forces
their economic and military way of
life on a weaker country
What is Imperialism?
The area between the trenches is called
What is No-man's Land?
American soldiers that fought in World War I were called
What are Doughboys?
Persuading Americans to support the war effort is known as:
What is Propaganda?
Wilson wrote these to shape the
post-war world.
What are the 14 points?
High patriotism and devotion for your
country
What is Nationalism?
German plan for avoid fighting a two front war
What is the Schiefflen Plan?
Led the American Expeditionary Force in Europe during WWI
Who is General John J. Pershing?
Americans bought these to help finance the war effort
What are Liberty Bonds?
An organization that would work towards peace that the U.S. did not join:
What is The League of Nations?
Two reasons why the U.S. became
involved in the war
What are the Zimmerman Note
German U-boats
Ties to Allies
Lusitania?
Where most of the important battles took place during WWI
What is the Western Front?
American Flying Ace during WWI
Who is Eddie Richenbacher?
This group of workers were exempted from being drafted into the military
Who are shipyard workers?
The “Big Four” included the
countries of
Who are U.S., Great Britain, France, Italy?
“The spark that lit the powder keg of Europe” & the man responsible for it!
What is the Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand & who is Gavrilo Princip?
Name 5 new weapons introduced during World War I
What are Big Bertha, tanks, airplanes, poison gas, flame throwers, machine guns, submarines
Wilson said America entered the
war to do this
What is “Make The World Safe for Democracy”?
2 Reasons why Americans sympathized with the Allies:
What are
Ancestral ties with the British
Allies were biggest trade partners?
3 punishments that Germany received at the end of World War I
What are Return land – Alsace Lorraine
Reduce military 100,000
War Guilt Clause
War Reparations $33 Billion?