United States | During the War | Results of the War | Allied or Central | Vocabulary |
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What was a draft to get eligible men to join the army?
The Selective Service Act.
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What is the Zimmerman Tellegram?
A note from German government to Mexico in 1917 urging Mexico to attack the U.S. if the U.S. declared war on Germany.
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What is the Spanish Flu?
A deadly virus that spread quickly after the war.
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What is Central?
Germany
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What is armistice?
An agreement to stop fighting.
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What is the Food Administration?
Propaganda was used by this organization to save food for troops, like Wheatless Wednesdays and Meatless Mondays. If you followed this organization's ways, you were considered patriotic.
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What is the Lusitania?
British passenger ship that was torpedoed by German U-boat in 1915 (example of unrestricted submarine warfare).
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What are reparations?
Payments made by a losing nation in a war to pay for losses suffered.
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What is Allied?
France
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What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
Type of naval warfare in which submarines attack the enemy’s merchant ships without warning.
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What is Germany's betrayal to the Sussex Pledge by using Unrestricted Submarine Warfare?
America's reason to join the war.
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What is selling supplies to both sides, but mostly the Allied Powers?
Americas involvement in the beginning of the war.
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What is losing territories to France and Poland, losing all colonies to the Allies, shrinking its army, losing its navy, accepting blame for the war, and paying billions of dollars?
The reparations added to the Treaty of Versailles by the British and French, to punish Germany for their supposed start of the war.
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What is Allied?
United Kingdom
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What are the fourteen points?
President Wilson’s goals for peace after World War I.
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What is Liberty Bonds?
Propaganda was used to get Americans to buy this to raise money for the war.
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What is the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand by terrorists from Serbia?
The immediate cause of the war.
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What is the League of Nations?
An idea proposed in Wilson's fourteen points, where nations would come together to prevent future war.
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What is Central?
Austria-Hungary
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What is stalemate?
A deadlock in which neither side can score a clear victory in battle.
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What is the high cost and the idea that we just got out of the Spanish American War?
Reasons to not enter the war.
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What is treaty where Russia had to pay large amounts of land and resources to Germany to get out of the war?
The Treaty of Brest Litovsk.
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What is the fact that we wanted to remain in a state of isolation?
The reason of the United States not joining the League of Nations.
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What is Allied?
Serbia
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What is propaganda?
Spreading of information – often biased or misleading – to promote a point of view.
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