World War I

Question 1

What is newspaper writing and reporting that exaggerates the truth…contributed to the support for U.S involvement in the Spanish American War?

Answer 1

Yellow Journalism

Question 2

What is the U.S battleship sent to protect American interests in Cuba that exploded in the harbor, contributing to U.S involvement in the Spanish American War?

Answer 2

USS Maine

Question 3

Who were the volunteer soldiers led by Theodore Roosevelt during the Spanish American war consisting of cowboys, Native Americans, college athletes, and wealthy New Yorkers?

Answer 3

Rough Riders

Question 4

Who were Experienced African American soldiers who fought in the Spanish American war. They got their nickname while serving in the wars against the native Americans on the Great Plains?

Answer 4

Buffalo Soldier

Question 5

Name 3 Territories gained by the U.S following the Spanish American war?

Answer 5

Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines

Question 6

What is the Canal through the Isthmus of Panama, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?

Answer 6

Panama Canal

Question 7

What is the idea of American superiority?

Answer 7

Social Darwinism

Question 8

What is the belief that America has the God-given right to expand across the sea like they did the continent?

Answer 8

New Manifest Destiny

Question 9

What is it called when you take a territory and add it to a country?

Answer 9

Annexation

Question 10

Name the state annexed (taken) by the United States for business and military purposes.

Answer 10

Hawaii

Question 11

Name the state purchased from Russia for 7.2 million in gold, had many valuable resources.

Answer 11

Alaska

Question 12

Who was the president of the U.S from 1901 to 1909. Led a group of soldiers called Rough Riders during the Spanish American War. He established national parks and reserves?

Answer 12

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 13

What was the name of the war between Spain and the U.S in 1898. The U.S fought to protect Americans and their businesses in Cuba. The U.S gained the territories of Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines?

Answer 13

Spanish American war

Question 14

What was the name of the war fought from 1914 to 1918 between the central and allied powers. It was also known as “The Great War” and “The War to end all Wars”?

Answer 14

World War I

Question 15

What do you call information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread to help or harm an individual, institution or nation?

Answer 15

Propaganda

Question 16

What is the policy in which a nation prefers to remain neutral and let other countries handle their own issues. The U.S wanted to stay neutral in the beginning of WWI?

Answer 16

Isolationism

Question 17

What do you call the temporary suspension of fight in war between parties; a truce?

Answer 17

Armistice

Question 18

The treaty signed in 1919 that officially ended World War I.

Answer 18

Treaty of Versailes

Question 19

What do you call the proposal for ending the war in a speech on January 8, 1918. In it he establishes the basis of a peace treaty and the foundation of a League of Nations?

Answer 19

Woodrow Wilson’s 14 points

Question 20

What do you call the organization suggested by U.S president Wilson formed to prevent future wars. The U.S senate voted that the U.S not join and return to isolationism?

Answer 20

League of Nations

Question 21

What is the name of the ship sank by a German submarine ( U-boat) killing many Americans leading to U.S involvement in World War I?

Answer 21

Lusitania

Question 22

What is a 1917 request from the German Empire to Mexico to make war against the United States. This was declined by Mexico, but angered Americans and led to U.S involvement in WWI?

Answer 22

Zimmerman Telegram

Question 23

Germany, Austria, Hungary , Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire(Turkey) are called what?

Answer 23

Central Powers

Question 24

Great Britain, France, Russia, Serbia, Belgium and the United States are called what?

Answer 24

Allies

Question 25

What was an informal name for an American soldier during WWI?

Answer 25

Doughboys

Question 26

What do you call it when people have a love of country and the desire to have one’s country free from the control of another?

Answer 26

Nationalism