World War I

Question 1

Militarism

Answer 1

policy of building up strong armed focus to prepare for war.

Question 2

Alliances

Answer 2

agreement between nations to aid and protect one another.

Question 3

Nationalism

Answer 3

pride in one’s nation.

Question 4

Imperialism

Answer 4

policy of powerful country seeking to control the economic and political affairs of weaker countries.

Question 5

Assassination

Answer 5

(Immediate Cause) Archduke Ferdinand is assassinated by Gavrilo Princip a member of a terrorist group called the Black Hand.

Question 6

Austria

Answer 6

Hungary declared war on Serbia.

Question 7

Germany

Answer 7

declared war on Russia and France.

Question 8

Britain

Answer 8

declared war on Germany.

Question 9

Central Powers

Answer 9

Germany, Austria- Hungary, Bulgaria, the Ottoman (Turkish) Empire. GBAT

Question 10

Allied Powers

Answer 10

France, Britain, Russia, Italy, and 21 other nations. FIRB

Question 11

Stalemate

Answer 11

deadlock in which neither side is strong enough to defeat the other.

Question 12

November 1914

Answer 12

a German advance + an Allied counter attack had produced nothing but a stalemate.

Question 13

Trench Warfare

Answer 13

soldiers spent day after day shelling the enemy trenches. An attack would beg in with hours of heavy artillery fire, then would charge over the trenches.

Question 14

New Weapon

Answer 14

chlorine + mosterd gas.

Question 15

American Neutrality

Answer 15

When war broke out the U.S. government wanted to remain neutral. Public opinion was divided-most favored Britain, German Americans favored the Central Powers, many, Jews favored Germany over Russia.

Question 16

Effects of the War

Answer 16

American farmers & manufacturers profited from trading with the Allies and Central Powers. As a neutral nation, the U.S. claimed the right to trade with either side.

Question 17

U-boat

Answer 17

German submarine. Attacked merchant ships

Question 18

Propaganda

Answer 18

spreading of ideas that help a cause or hurt an opposing cause.

Question 19

May 7, 1915

Answer 19

A German U-boat torpedoed the Lusitania a British passenger ship, off the coast of Ireland.

Question 20

Sussex Pledge

Answer 20

Before attacking any ship U-boats would surface and give warning.

Question 21

The Zimmerman Plot

Answer 21

Arthur Zimmerman, Germany’s foreign secretary, sent a secret note to the German minister in Mexico.

Question 22

Zimmerman telegram

Answer 22

Instructed the minister to urge Mexico to attack the U.S. if the U.S. declared war on Germany. In return, Germany would help Mexico win back land it lost in the Southwest.

Question 23

April 2, 1917

Answer 23

President Wilson went before Congress to ask for a declaration of war.

Question 24

Reasons:

Answer 24

Unrestricted Submarine warfare by Germany, Many Americans favored Britain and France, Zimmerman telegram angered many Americans, American trade with the Allies was growing.

Question 25

Raising an army

Answer 25

African Americans served in segregated units. 4 million volunteered for military service.

Question 26

Draft

Answer 26

law required people to serve in the military.

Question 27

Selective Service Act

Answer 27

Required men between 21-30 to register for the draft.

Question 28

Food Administration

Answer 28

Wheatless Mondays, Meatless Tuesdays, Herbert Hoover, Plant "victory gardens"

Question 29

Raising Money

Answer 29

Americans were lending to government for war. Charlie Chaplin and Mary Picktard helped sell liberty bonds. Four Minute Men Speakers. Raised money (21 billion) Celebrities gave speeches about making sacrifices for the war.

Question 30

Managing Industry

Answer 30

U.S. was not ready when it entered WWI

Question 31

War Industries Board

Answer 31

told factories what to produce, how much to produce, + what prices to set shared resources.

Question 32

War Labor Board

Answer 32

settled disputes over working hours, wages, + prevented strikers.

Question 33

Nov. 1917

Answer 33

the Bolsheviks seized power from Russia's government.

Question 34

Russia Makes a Separate Peace

Answer 34

Lead by Vladmir Lenin, Lenin embraced the ideas of Karl Marx, Marx believed the workers around the world would unite to overthrow the ruling class. Lenin believed that the war would only benefit the ruling class. Russia gave up large amounts of land to Germany coal mines and other valuable resources in Russia.

Question 35

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk-Treaty

Answer 35

worked out between Germany and Russia ending Russia's participation in the war.

Question 36

june 1918

Answer 36

American troops arrive in France lead by General John J. Pershing.

Question 37

American Expeditionary Force

Answer 37

Pershing wanted American troops to operate as separate units.n In the end, Pershing agreed to let some Americans fight with the British and French. The Harlem Hell Fighters were awarded the Croix de Guerre (Cross of War) by the French. Their highest military honor.

Question 38

Battle of Belleau Wood

Answer 38

raged for 3 weeks. Marines charged machine gun nets, when one fell another took his place. U.S. suffered great casualties. "Devil Dogs" by the Germans.

Question 39

Battle of the Argonne Forest

Answer 39

After 47 days, the Allied forces were able to break through the German defense.

Question 40

Allies win the War

Answer 40

Sergeant Alvin York wiped out a nest of German machine gunners. It helped to clear the way for advancing troops. British, French, and Belgian forces also smashes through German lines.

Question 41

Armistice

Answer 41

an agreement to stop fighting.

Question 42

Wilson set up two conditions

Answer 42

1. Germany must accept his plan for peace. | 2. The German emperor must abdicate-give up power.

Question 43

Armistice Ends the War

Answer 43

On the eleventh day of the eleventh month at the eleventh hour in 1918 WWI ended.

Question 44

Fourteen Points

Answer 44

President Wilson's goal for peace after WWI.

Question 45

Wilson's Fourteen Points Peace Plan

Answer 45

End to secret agreements. | Freedom of the seas.

Question 46

Self-determinstion

Answer 46

the right of national groups to have their own territory and forms of government.

Question 47

League of Nations

Answer 47

General association of nations, it would protect the independence of all countries.

Question 48

Treaty of Versailles

Answer 48

Wilson wanted peace without victory, he opposed punishing the defeated powers. Germany had to pay the Allis reparations. Alsace-Lorraine was returned to France. Germany lost it's overseas colonies, which were put under the control of Britain and France. Germany was not allowed to build up it's military.

Question 49

War guilt clause

Answer 49

Germany had to accept responsibility for the war.

Question 50

Reparations

Answer 50

Cash payments for losses that had been suffered.

Question 51

The fight for the Versailles Treaty

Answer 51

Isolationists opposed the League of Nation. Lodge & isolationists felt the league would involve the U.S. in another war. Wilson believed that Lodge's changes would weaken the League. Other nations joined the League, the U.S. did not.

Question 52

Henry Cabot Lodge wanted changes in the treaty that would:

Answer 52

1. Ensure that the U.S. remained independent in the league. | 2. Wanted Congress to have the power to decide on whether the U.S. would follow League policy.