United States During the War Results of the War Allied or Central Vocabulary
100
What was a draft to get eligible men to join the army?
The Selective Service Act.
100
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.
100
What is the Spanish Flu?
A deadly virus that spread quickly after the war.
100
What is Central?
Germany
100
What is armistice?
An agreement to stop fighting.
200
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.
200
What is the Lusitania?
British passenger ship that was torpedoed by German U-boat in 1915 (example of unrestricted submarine warfare).
200
What are reparations?
Payments made by a losing nation in a war to pay for losses suffered.
200
What is Allied?
France
200
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
Type of naval warfare in which submarines attack the enemy’s merchant ships without warning.
300
What is Germany's betrayal to the Sussex Pledge by using Unrestricted Submarine Warfare?
America's reason to join the war.
300
What is selling supplies to both sides, but mostly the Allied Powers?
Americas involvement in the beginning of the war.
300
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.
300
What is Allied?
United Kingdom
300
What are the fourteen points?
President Wilson’s goals for peace after World War I.
400
What is Liberty Bonds?
Propaganda was used to get Americans to buy this to raise money for the war.
400
What is the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand by terrorists from Serbia?
The immediate cause of the war.
400
What is the League of Nations?
An idea proposed in Wilson's fourteen points, where nations would come together to prevent future war.
400
What is Central?
Austria-Hungary
400
What is stalemate?
A deadlock in which neither side can score a clear victory in battle.
500
What is the high cost and the idea that we just got out of the Spanish American War?
Reasons to not enter the war.
500
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.
500
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.
500
What is Allied?
Serbia
500
What is propaganda?
Spreading of information – often biased or misleading – to promote a point of view.






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