WW1- American Style

Question 1

What countries started WW1?

Answer 1

Austria-Hungary and Serbia

Question 2

Main reason WW1 started?

Answer 2

Assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand

Question 3

Who killed the Arch Duke

Answer 3

Gavrilo Princip

Question 4

Gavrilo was a member of what group?

Answer 4

The black hand

Question 5

What were the main 2 alliances

Answer 5

The triple entente, The triple alliance

Question 6

Who was in the triple entente

Answer 6

France, Russia, Great Britain

Question 7

Who was in the triple alliance

Answer 7

Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy

Question 8

What did Americans mostly oppose

Answer 8

Central powers, and triple alliance

Question 9

Who was Germany controlled by?

Answer 9

Kaiser Wilhelm the second

Question 10

Kaiser Wilhelm had what type of government?

Answer 10

A dictatorship

Question 11

America declared what immediately after the war started

Answer 11

Neutrality

Question 12

Americas stance of neutrality was influenced by what?

Answer 12

Trading

Question 13

What might make trading more difficult for America

Answer 13

German u-boats and British blockades

Question 14

Who did businesses in America have ties with

Answer 14

Great-Britain

Question 15

Who did big businesses in America want to side with

Answer 15

Britain

Question 16

What group did big businesses in America form

Answer 16

National Security League

Question 17

What did the National security league do?

Answer 17

Promoted patriotic education and national sentiment and service among people of the US. Created army training camps

Question 18

What was the Lusitania

Answer 18

British luxury liner (cruise ship)

Question 19

The last voyage of the lusitania was from where to where

Answer 19

New York to Britain

Question 20

What sunk the Lusitania

Answer 20

German u-boat (u-20), torpedoed the Lusitania

Question 21

How was the Lusitania sinking

Answer 21

Started to list 15° to starboard, sank in 18 min

Question 22

Out how 1198 passengers that died on the Lusitania, how many were Americans

Answer 22

124

Question 23

How many lifeboats were set off, and how many actually deployed

Answer 23

48 were on the ship, only 6 dropped

Question 24

What was president Wilson’s re-election campaign slogan

Answer 24

He kept us out of war

Question 25

What did America make to maintain German submarine warfare

Answer 25

Sussex pledge

Question 26

What does the Sussex pledge say

Answer 26

Germany would have to warn ships before attacking with u-boats

Question 27

How many I-boats in ww1

Answer 27

375

Question 28

When did the US end diplomatic relationships with Germany?

Answer 28

Feb 3 1917

Question 29

What did Arthur Zimmerman offer Mexico

Answer 29

To declare war in America for a reward from Germany

Question 30

Why was it significant that Russia dropped out of the war

Answer 30

It made 1 front war

Question 31

When did the US declared war

Answer 31

April 6, 1917

Question 32

How many troops did America have

Answer 32

100,000 troops

Question 33

What did America send with troops to help

Answer 33

Naval support, supplied arms, 3 billion in loans

Question 34

What was the selective service act

Answer 34

Authorized draft of young men for military service

Question 35

Did Americans have a lot of training?

Answer 35

Many went without extensive training

Question 36

The fighting between Germany and France (end of war) ended when?

Answer 36

November 11, 1918

Question 37

When was the treaty of Versailles signed

Answer 37

June 28, 1919

Question 38

Wilson wanted peace so he made up what?

Answer 38

14 provisions, Wilson’s fourteen points

Question 39

What was number fourteen?

Answer 39

An association of nations

Question 40

Did puntries listen to Wilson’s points

Answer 40

No. They went on their own route

Question 41

What is the League of Nations

Answer 41

An organization where the nations of the world would join together to make peace and security

Question 42

Did the US join the League of Nations

Answer 42

No, they didn’t want to back up other countries with their military

Question 43

Result of the Versailles conference

Answer 43

Made Germany take full blame

Question 44

How much did Germany have to pay

Answer 44

33billion

Question 45

Sid Germany want to sign the Versailles

Answer 45

No, they believed it was too harsh

Question 46

What restrictions were on the navy

Answer 46

No poison gas production. No importing or exporting Tanks, submarines, military aircraft, and artillery were prohibited

Question 47

What treaty did they US sign

Answer 47

The treaty of Berlin

Question 48

What happened (during) after the war

Answer 48

The Spanish flu

Question 49

What did Charles Schenck do

Answer 49

Mailed letters to draftees telling them not to go. He wanted to break the sedition act.

Question 50

What is the sedition/espionage act

Answer 50

Wartime Law aimed at spies and people who opposed the war and government