Chapter 5- Sections 1-4

Question 1

Central Powers

Answer 1

World War I alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire

Question 2

Allies

Answer 2

in World War I the alliance of Great Britain, France, Italy, Serbia, Russia and all the other nations that became allied with them in opposing the Central Powers

Question 3

nationalism

Answer 3

pride in one’s country

Question 4

militarism

Answer 4

A policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army always prepared for war

Question 5

trench warfare

Answer 5

A form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield.

Question 6

U-Boat

Answer 6

German submarine

Question 7

Zimmerman Telegram

Answer 7

telegram telling the German ambassador to ask Mexico to declare war on the United States

Question 8

Woodrow Wilson

Answer 8

President during World War I

Question 9

communism

Answer 9

single-party political system in which the government controls and plans the economy with the goal of common ownership of all property

Question 10

imperialism

Answer 10

A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, socially, and economically.

Question 11

alliance

Answer 11

An agreement to work together

Question 12

American Expeditionary Force (AEF)

Answer 12

the American army that fought in Europe in World War I

Question 13

General John J. Pershing

Answer 13

commander of the American Expeditionary Force in Europe

Question 14

war bonds

Answer 14

a low-interest loan by civilians to the government meant to be repaid in a number of years

Question 15

War Industries Board

Answer 15

managed the buying and distributing of war materials; set goals for production, ordered construction of new factories and with the president’s approval, also set prices

Question 16

Committee on Public Information

Answer 16

government organization that produced propaganda to build support for the war

Question 17

Espionage Act

Answer 17

1917 law that set heavy fines and long prison terms for antiwar activities

Question 18

Sedition Act

Answer 18

1918 law that made it illegal to criticize the government

Question 19

propaganda

Answer 19

opinions expressed for the purpose of influencing the actions of others

Question 20

Eddie Rickenbacker

Answer 20

“ace” pilot who downed 26 enemy fighters in WWI

Question 21

Bellau Wood

Answer 21

site of American victory in France in 1918

Question 22

Second Battle of the Marne

Answer 22

battle that was the turning point of the war

Question 23

Alvin York

Answer 23

Tennessee-born soldier whose action in the Argonne Forest made him an American hero

Question 24

convoy

Answer 24

a guard that accompanies and protects ships or troops

Question 25

armistice

Answer 25

An agreement to stop fighting

Question 26

epidemic

Answer 26

A widespread outbreak of an infectious disease

Question 27

Fourteen Points

Answer 27

President Woodrow Wilson's plan for organizing post World War I Europe and for avoiding future wars

Question 28

League of Nations

Answer 28

an organization set up after World War I to settle international conflicts

Question 29

Treaty of Versailles

Answer 29

1919 treaty that officially ended World War I; the immense penalties it placed on Germany are regarded as one of the causes of World War II

Question 30

reparations

Answer 30

money that a defeated nation pays for the destruction it caused in other countries

Question 31

Great Migration

Answer 31

Movement of African Americans from the South to the North for jobs between 1910-1920

Question 32

Red Scare

Answer 32

fear that communists were working to destroy the American way of life

Question 33

Palmer Raids

Answer 33

Part of the Red Scare, these were measures to hunt out political radicals and immigrants who were potential threats to American security; led to the arrest of nearly 5,500 people and the deportation of nearly 400