Vocabulary 2

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Answer: Nationalism

Question 2

Question: The policy of building up armed forces in aggressive preparedness for war and their use.

Answer 2

Answer: Militarism

Question 3

Question: The group of nations, originally consisting of Great Britain, France, and Russia, and later joined by the US, Italy, and others, that opposed the Central Powers.

Answer 3

Answer: Allies

Question 4

Question: The group of nations led by Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire that opposed the Allies in World War I.

Answer 4

Answer: Central Powers

Question 5

Question: A system in which each nation or alliance has equal strength.

Answer 5

Answer: Balance of power

Question 6

Question: Archduke and heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary whose assassination by a Serbian nationalist started World War I.

Answer 6

Answer: Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Question 7

Question: Military operations in which the opposing forces attack and counter-attack from systems of fortified ditches rather than on an open battlefield.

Answer 7

Answer: Trench warfare

Question 8

Question: An unoccupied region between opposing armies in trench warfare.

Answer 8

Answer: No man’s land

Question 9

Question: British passenger ship that was sunk by a German U-boat on May 7, 1915.

Answer 9

Answer: Lusitania

Question 10

Question: A promise by Germany in World War I not to sink merchant vessels without warning and without saving human lives.

Answer 10

Answer: Sussex Pledge

Question 11

Question: A message sent in 1917 by the German foreign minister to the German ambassador in Mexico proposing a German-Mexican alliance and promising to help Mexico regain Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona if the US entered World War I.

Answer 11

Answer: Zimmermann Telegram

Question 12

Question: American World War I pilot who shot down 26 enemy aircraft and was awarded the Medal of Honor.

Answer 12

Answer: Eddie Rickenbacker

Question 13

Question: A law enacted in 1917 that required men to register for military service.

Answer 13

Answer: Selective Service Act

Question 14

Question: The protection of merchant ships from German U-boat attacks by having the ships travel in large groups escorted by warships.

Answer 14

Answer: Convoy system

Question 15

Question: The US forces led by General John J. Pershing who fought with the Allies in Europe during World War I.

Answer 15

Answer: American Expeditionary Forces (AEF)

Question 16

Question: American army commander who was a major general and Commander-in-Chief of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I.

Answer 16

Answer: John J. Pershing

Question 17

Question: American soldier in World War I who earned the Medal of Honor for capturing 132 German soldiers in the Meuse-Argonne area.

Answer 17

Answer: Alvin York

Question 18

Question: A person who refuses, on moral grounds, to participate in warfare.

Answer 18

Answer: Conscientious objector

Question 19

Question: A truce or agreement to end an armed conflict.

Answer 19

Answer: Armistice

Question 20

Question: An agency established during World War I to increase efficiency and discourage waste in war-related industries.

Answer 20

Answer: War Industries Board (WIB)

Question 21

Question: American business leader and head of the War Industries Board during World War I.

Answer 21

Answer: Bernard M. Baruch

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Answer: Propaganda

Question 23

Question: The nation’s first propaganda agency, formed by President Wilson, to influence public opinion to maximize support for the US’s involvement in World War I.

Answer 23

Answer: Committee on Public Information

Question 24

Question: Newspaper reporter and political reformer; he was appointed by President Woodrow Wilson to head the Committee on Public Information during World War I.

Answer 24

Answer: George Creel

Question 25

Question: Two laws enacted in 1917 and 1918 that imposed harsh penalties on anyone interfering with or speaking against US participation in World War I.

Answer 25

Answer: Espionage and Sedition Acts

Question 26

Question: The large-scale movement of African Americans from the South to Northern cities in the early 20th century.

Answer 26

Answer: Great Migration

Question 27

Question: The principles making up President Woodrow Wilson’s plan for world peace following World War I.

Answer 27

Answer: Fourteen Points

Question 28

Question: The right of peoples to choose their own political status.

Answer 28

Answer: Self-determination

Question 29

Question: An association of nations established in 1920 to promote international cooperation and peace.

Answer 29

Answer: League of Nations

Question 30

Question: French Premier during World War I; he was a member of the Big Four at the Paris Peace Conference after the war.

Answer 30

Answer: Georges Clemenceau

Question 31

Question: British Prime Minister during World War I; he was a member of the Big Four at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.

Answer 31

Answer: David Lloyd George

Question 32

Question: The 1919 peace treaty at the end of World War I which established new nations, borders, and war reparations.

Answer 32

Answer: Treaty of Versailles

Question 33

Question: The compensation paid by a defeated nation for the damage or injury it inflicted during a war.

Answer 33

Answer: Reparations

Question 34

Question: A provision in the Treaty of Versailles by which Germany acknowledged that it alone was responsible for World War I.

Answer 34

Answer: War Guilt Clause

Question 35

Question: US senator and head of the Committee on Foreign Relations; he led the reservationists in opposition to the League of Nations.

Answer 35

Answer: Henry Cabot Lodge