ch 23

Question 1

Submarine warfare

Answer 1

Germans used submarines to sink vessels without warning

Question 2

Zimmerman telegram

Answer 2

Telegram that the British intercepted from the German foreign minister saying Germany and Mexico should become allies if US joined war; said Mexico would regain lost provinces

Question 3

Lusitania

Answer 3

British passenger liner carrying munitions that a german u-boat sunk on may 7, 1915; 1148 casualties, 128 Americans

Question 4

Sussex

Answer 4

French steamer attacked by german submarine, started unrestricted submarine warfare

Question 5

American expeditionary force

Answer 5

Armed forces sent to Europe to help in 1917 under command of John j. Pershing

Question 6

Selective service act

Answer 6

Brought nearly 3 million men into army, US draft

Question 7

Intelligence quotient

Answer 7

Used as a tool to determine officers in the military, tested soldiers’ intelligence(IQ)

Question 8

John jay Pershing

Answer 8

Led the American expeditionary force to join the existing allied forces although it retained a command structure independent of other allies

Question 9

Fourteen points

Answer 9

Wilson’s plan to end WWI

Question 10

David Lloyd George

Answer 10

British prime minister part of the Big Four, insisted for a time that the german Kaiser be captured and executed

Question 11

George’s Clemenceau

Answer 11

Premier of France in the Big Four, wanted to gain from the struggle to compensate for the catastrophe they had suffered

Question 12

Vittorio Orlando

Answer 12

Premier of Italy in the Big Four, attended Paris peace conference

Question 13

The Big Four

Answer 13

Composed of top four allies at Paris peace conference; Woodrow Wilson of US, David Lloyd George of GB, vittorio Orlando of Italy, Clemenceau of France

Question 14

Reparations

Answer 14

Payments of war debts

Question 15

Treaty of Versailles

Answer 15

created by Wilson, Officially ended WWI

Question 16

The irreconcilables

Answer 16

Senators(western isolationists) opposed the agreements in the treaty of Versailles on principle

Question 17

Henry Cabot lodge

Answer 17

Senator of Mass powerful chairman of the foreign relations committee & leader of Reservationists, friend of Roosevelt and hated Wilson and the treaty of Versailles, made a series of “reservations” to the league limiting US obligations to the org.

Question 18

Total war

Answer 18

War that is unrestricted in the terms of weaponry, combatants involved, and objectives pursued; involves all aspects of society