WW1 deck

Question 1

M
A
I
N

Answer 1

M- militarism
A-alliances
I- imperialism
N- nationalism

Question 2

Who was assassinated?

Answer 2

ArchDuke Frans Ferdinand was assassinated.

Question 3

Allied Powers-

Answer 3

.Russia
.Italy
.U.S
.Britain
.France
.Japan

Question 4

Central Powers-

Answer 4

.Germany
.Austria Hungary
.Ottoman empire
.Bulgaria

Question 5

Identify 4 new weapons used in WWI

Answer 5

Tanks
Machine guns
submarines
planes

Question 6

What is Neutrality?

Answer 6

Neutrality is when a country is neutral in a conflict.

Question 7

Woodrow Wilson made 2 speeches about American neutrality. Explain the main idea in both.

Answer 7

1914 Speech: America should not get involved in war unless we have to, it is not our direct problem but we still should support the allies.

1917 Speech: America has to intervene in the war, American lives are in constant danger.

Question 8

How did the US use Propaganda to encourage Americans to support the war?

Answer 8

The U.S used propaganda to depict doing small things such as donating money and buying war bonds would lead to victory in the war and the destruction of things like U-Boats and other dangerous weapons used by the enemy.

Question 9

What were U-Boats?

Answer 9

U-Boats were German submarines.

Question 10

What happened to the Lusitania?

Answer 10

The Lusitania was sunk by an enemy U-boat in the area by torpedo.

Question 11

What was the Zimmerman Telegram?

Answer 11

The Zimmerman Telegram was a telegram intercepted by the British which was supposed to convey a message to Mexico saying that if they decided to declare war on the U.S and invade, Germany would help them in that effort to gain their land back.

Question 12

What was the Economic Reason that Howard Zinn said was the true reason why the US went into the war?

Answer 12

He said that the true reason the U.S went into war was because the U.S would sell a lot of goods and loan money to a lot of the allied countries, if the allies lost it would be devastating for the economy.

Question 13

Selective Service Act -

Answer 13

An act that drafts people 21 - 30 to go to war. 24 million registered and 3 million of them served.

Question 14

National War Labor Board -

Answer 14

Decided how workers abilities are used (for the war)

Question 15

War Industries Board

Answer 15

• A board looked over the industries that were creating war related products.

Question 16

Fuel Administration -

Answer 16

encouraged using less fuel so the fuel could be used for the vehicles of warfare. (Daylights savings was created to save energy, Heatless mondays, managed the nations oil and coal)

Question 17

War Bonds -

Answer 17

bought to donate money to the war effort

Question 18

Food Administration -

Answer 18

encouraged food rationing to save food for the troops in the war effort. (Wheatless Mondays, meatless tuesday and victory gardens)

Question 19

Committee on Public Information -

Answer 19

This committee built a campaign to get people to support the war through things like PROPAGANDA.

Question 20

Battle of the Marne -

Answer 20

The Battle of the Marne saw the German forces making their famous advance towards paris. French and BEF troops were sent in as reinforcements to stop the advance in its tracks. French rained fire with crazy good accuracy to the point where the Germans thought that they were being shot with machine guns. Germans had to retreat and dig in for trench warfare putting a halt to Schliffen’s plan.

Question 21

Battle of Verdun -

Answer 21

The Battle of Verdun was the most costly battle in world history where the German army commander had determined that the main enemy was Britain but to destroy their will they first have to destroy France. This led him to make the decision that the goal of this battle was just to inflict as many casualties as possible on the French. The only problem with this battle was that when the French gathered their reinforcements they inflicted just as many casualties as dealt to them. Both sides lost an estimate of 300,000 troops.

Question 22

Convoys -

Answer 22

Convoys were groups of armed transports seeing through the transportation of different resources.

Question 23

Russian Withdrawal -

Answer 23

Russia withdraws from the war because they are having a revolution in their own country which would end up leading to the rise in power of the soviets, creating the USSR. The Tsar at the time was becoming very unpopular and with factors such as food shortages, the war’s death toll and a man named Rasputin having control over the royal family, all seemed to be crashing down on the government. In the end the soviet party and the Bolsheviks staged a coup to officially put themselves in power. This soviet party would later become the communist party of the soviet union.

Question 24

Battle of Argonne Forest

Answer 24

A group of troops surrounded behind Germany enemy lines but still held on until the war ended.

Question 25

Treaty of Versailles

Answer 25

The treaty of Versailles was a treaty where Germany had to take all the blame for the war and destruction, have to pay up for the damages, have to give up all claimed land during the war, demilitarize the Rhineland and have a much smaller military.

Question 26

League of Nations

Answer 26

The league of nations was a group created after the war to settle all disputes diplomatically with words.

Question 27

Wilson’s Fourteen Points

Answer 27

Fourteen Points Woodrow made in a speech to prevent another war and to secure peace for all nations.

.Adjusting borders
.creating new nations
.Free trade
.freedom of the seas
.end secret treaties
.Limit arms /weapons
. peaceful settlement of disputes
.League of nations