Unit 5b: World War I

Question 1

Nationalism

Answer 1

pride in one own’s country

Question 2

Militarism

Answer 2

glorification of a nation’s military strength

Question 3

Allied Powers

Answer 3

Britain, France, Russia (eventually Italy and the US)

Question 4

Central Powers

Answer 4

Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire

Question 5

No Man’s Land

Answer 5

on fighting field area of land between enemy territories filled with barbed wire and land mines

Question 6

Trench Warfare

Answer 6

WWI military strategy that relied on fighting from ditches

Question 7

Neutrality

Answer 7

refers to remaining neutral in a global conflict

Question 8

Sussex Pledge

Answer 8

German promise not to sink American ships without warning

Question 9

Zimmerman Telegram

Answer 9

transmission sent from Germany to Mexico, proposing an alliance that would help Mexico regain territories lost to America

Question 10

Selective Service Act

Answer 10

required men between the ages 21-30 to register for the draft (eventually lowered to 18)

Question 11

Convoy System

Answer 11

system of escorting merchant vessels with US warships

Question 12

Great Migration

Answer 12

movement of African Americans in the south to northern cities between 1915 and 1930

Question 13

Sedition Act

Answer 13

made it illegal to speak or print anything criticizing the government during a time of war

Question 14

Wilson’s Fourteen Points

Answer 14

Wilson’s program for world peace; gets rejected by European powers

Question 15

League of Nations

Answer 15

international body designed to prevent future wars

Question 16

Big Four

Answer 16

refers to the 4 leaders who met for the peace conference at the end of WWI: America, France, Britain, Italy

Question 17

Reparations:

Answer 17

repayment for damages incurred by war

Question 18

Treaty of Versailles

Answer 18

peace treaty that ends WWI; upsets both Germany and Italy, signed in Paris on June 28, 1919

Question 19

Franz Ferdinand

Answer 19

heir to Austro-Hungarian throne, assassinated while visiting Sarajevo

Question 20

Gavrilo Princip

Answer 20

Serbian nationalist who assassinated Franz Ferdinand

Question 21

“Food will win the war!”

Answer 21

Slogan used to get people to not waste food, grow their own and conserve so more food could go to our soldiers

Question 22

“Our boys over there”

Answer 22

Slogan used to describe American soldiers; they belonged to everyone in the U.S.

Question 23

Doughboys

Answer 23

American soldiers who badly needed to be trained for war

Question 24

Herbert Hoover

Answer 24

Director of the Food Agency during WWI; ran all the programs that helped saved food for the war effort

Question 25

Mobilization

Answer 25

preparing for war

Question 26

Lusitania

Answer 26

British cruise liner carrying 128 American passengers that was attacked by German U-boats in 1915