The First World War - Chapter 19

Question 1

Law requiring men to register for military service

Answer 1

Selective Service Act

Question 2

An international peace-keeping organization proposed by Wilson and founded in 1920

Answer 2

League of Nations

Question 3

Building up armed forces to prepare for war

Answer 3

Militarism

Question 4

Leader of the War Industries Board

Answer 4

Bernard M. Baruch

Question 5

One side in World War I: Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire

Answer 5

Central Powers

Question 6

Message proposing an alliance between Germany and Mexico

Answer 6

Zimmermann note

Question 7

Agency to improve efficiency in war-related industries

Answer 7

War Industries Board

Question 8

Conservative senator who wanted to keep the United States out of the League of Nations

Answer 8

Henry Cabot Lodge

Question 9

A person who believes fighting is wrong and therefore does not want to serve in the military

Answer 9

Conscientious objector

Question 10

Young heir whose assassination triggered the war

Answer 10

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Question 11

American war hero

Answer 11

Alvin York

Question 12

Movement of many African Americans to northern cities from the South in the early 1900s

Answer 12

Great Migration

Question 13

The commander of the American Expeditionary force

Answer 13

General John J. Pershing

Question 14

Having merchant ships travel in groups protected by warships

Answer 14

Convoy system

Question 15

The space between armies fighting each other

Answer 15

No man’s land

Question 16

A devotion to the interests and culture of one’s nation

Answer 16

Nationalism

Question 17

Part of the Treaty of Versailles in which Germany took responsibility for the war

Answer 17

War-guilt clause

Question 18

A kind of biased communication designed to influence people’s thoughts and actions

Answer 18

Propaganda

Question 19

Head of the Committee on Public Information (CPI), the government’s propaganda agency

Answer 19

George Creel

Question 20

Famous American fighter pilot

Answer 20

Eddie Rickenbacker

Question 21

British passenger ship attacked and sunk by Germans

Answer 21

Lusitania

Question 22

Laws that enacted harsh penalties against anyone opposing U.S. participation in World War I

Answer 22

Espionage and Sedition Acts

Question 23

Wilson’s plan for world peace following World War I

Answer 23

Fourteen Points

Question 24

Truce agreement

Answer 24

Armistice

Question 25

The 1919 treaty that ended World War I

Answer 25

Treaty of Versailles

Question 26

One side in World War I: Great Britain, France, and Russia, later joined by the U.S.

Answer 26

Allies

Question 27

Fighting between fortified ditches

Answer 27

Tench warfare

Question 28

British prime minister

Answer 28

David Lloyd George

Question 29

French premier

Answer 29

Georges Clemenceau

Question 30

Payments made by defeated countries after a war

Answer 30

Reparations

Question 31

The name given to the American military force that fought in World War I

Answer 31

American Expeditionary Force