WWI Basics
Who was the President during WWI?
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
What was the spark of WWI?
What is the assassination of Franz Ferdinand?
How did women and African Americans' roles change during WWI?
What is they both had increased roles during WWI, helping the U.S. continue producing war items at a rapid pace and holding down the Homefront?
Which side is Italy on in WWI at the beginning and at the end?
What is Triple Alliance at the beginning of the war and Triple Entente at the end?
Which countries consisted of the Big Four?
When WWI FIRST began, which side was the United States on?
What is neutral? (They were on neither side at the start)
What was the message from Germany to Mexico called, which asked Mexico to attack the U.S.?
What is The Zimmermann Telegram?
What is the 19th Amendment?
What is France's goal at the Paris Peace Conference?
What is to punish Germany to the fullest extent possible?
Who was NOT invited to the Paris Peace Conference?
Who is Germany (they are the ones to blame for the war) and Soviet Union (boo Communism)?
When the U.S. joins the war, which side do they fight on?
What is Triple Entente?
What is the name of the event that drew the United States closer into WWI, in which an unarmed ship was torpedoed, killing 128 Americans and over a thousand others?
What is the Sinking of the Lusitania?
How does propaganda in the U.S. impact the feelings of war in America?
What is it influences every person to do their part; join the military, buy war bonds, conserve food, or hate the enemy?
What happens in Russia that causes them to make a peace treaty with Germany and leave WWI?
What is the Russian Revolution; Tsar Nicholas II OUT --> Vladimir Lenin / Communism IN
Who is the Big Three? How and why is it different from the Big Four?
What is Britain, France, and United States; these three countries make all the "big" decisions, sidelining Italy from any real importance?
True or false: There were a few battles in WWI fought on U.S. territory?
What is false?
Which event cut off all supplies to Germany, interfering with U.S. trade routes and forcing the Germans to use unrestricted submarine warfare?
What is the British Blockade?
The Great Migration saw which population of people move where?
What is African Americans; from South to North (because factories needed more workers during wartime)?
What is a government in which they control all means of production and the economy; goal is to have no rich and no poor, everyone works and shares the wealth equally?
Which of Wilson's 14 Points were actually used at the conference? What did this point say?
What is Wilson's last point; It established a League of Nations?
What are the TWO reasons WWI did not end by Christmas in 1914?
What are trench warfare and militarism (million man armies/arms race)?
What was the name of the conference the countries who fought in WWI met at? AND, what is the name of the treaty that was signed by Germany?
What is the Paris Peace Conference AND the Treaty of Versailles?
German discrimination in America was common during WWI... which of the following DID NOT happen?
A. Attempts to rid American culture of any type of German language or ideas
B. Attempts were made to shut down German newspapers
C. The deportation of large numbers of German-Americans
D. Laws were created to restrict the rights of German-Americans
What is C. The deportation of large numbers of German-Americans?
What are the two alliances in WWI and who are the main countries on each side?
What is Triple Alliance -- Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Ottoman Empire and Triple Entente -- Britain, France, and Italy?
2 Part Question:
1. Was the League of Nations successful? Why/why not?
2. Which 3 nations DID NOT/COULD NOT join the league?
What is...
1. At first, yes, but in the long run, no. It helped lead to WWII.
2. Germany (war reparation), Soviet Union (Communism), and United States (voted to not join it).