WWI

Question 1

What 3 things helped set the stage for war?

Answer 1

1. nationalism
2. alliances
3. competition for land

Question 2

Which “team” was Great Britain, France, Russia, Serbia, and Belgium?

Answer 2

The Allied Powers

Question 3

What were some new technologies used in WWI?

Answer 3

Tanks, Submarines, Airplanes, Poison Gas

Question 4

WHich two countries had the original conflict that started it al?

Answer 4

Austria-Hungary and Serbia

Question 5

What year did the war start?

Answer 5

1914

Question 6

What year did the U.S. enter the war?

Answer 6

1917

Question 7

When did the war end?

Answer 7

Nov. 11, 1918

Question 8

Which side was the U.S. on?

Answer 8

The Allied Powers

Question 9

Who was president of the U.S. during the war?

Answer 9

Woodrow Wilson

Question 10

What document officially ended the war?

Answer 10

The Treaty of Versailles

Question 11

What is the policy in which a nation prefers to remain neutral and let other countries handle their own affairs?

Answer 11

Isolationism

Question 12

What is an agreement among nations to defend one another?

Answer 12

Alliance

Question 13

What is a love of one’s country and the desire to have one’s country free from the control of another?

Answer 13

Nationalism

Question 14

What do we now call the war that was fought between the central powers and allied powers from 1914-1918?

Answer 14

World War I

Question 15

What did we do on the “Homefront” to help win the war?

Answer 15

Most Americans supported the war and were patriotic
Many planted War Gardens
Women went to work in factories
The Government encouraged us to eat less

Question 16

What was the real name for “Liberty Cabbage” before all things German were considered bad?

Answer 16

Sauerkraut

Question 17

What happened to Louis Fritsche, the mayor of New Ulm?

Answer 17

He was removed from his job as mayor because he was considered disloyal.

Question 18

What did SOME German Americans choose to do with their names?

Answer 18

Change them to more “American” sounding names.

Question 19

Why did they call them the “New Ulm Traitors”?

Answer 19

MANY thought that the people of New Ulm did not support the US and wanted Germany to win the war. BUT The people of New Ulm just thought that German Americans should not have to fight against their family and friends in Germany.