Module 16

Question 1

Nationalism

Answer 1

A devotion to the interests and cultures of one’s nation

Question 2

Militarism

Answer 2

Building up armed forces to prepare for war

Question 3

Allies

Answer 3

One side of World War I: Britain France, and Russia, later joined by the U.S.

Question 4

Central Powers

Answer 4

One side in World War I: Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire

Question 5

Balance of Power

Answer 5

Act of giving two different sides equal strength or power

Question 6

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Answer 6

Young her whose assassination triggered World War I

Question 7

Trench Warfare

Answer 7

Fighting between fortified ditches

Question 8

“No man’s land”

Answer 8

The space between armies fighting each other

Question 9

Lusitania

Answer 9

British passenger ship attacked and sunk by Germans

Question 10

Sussex Pledge

Answer 10

A promise by the Germans not to sink vessels without warning

Question 11

Zimmerman note

Answer 11

Message proposing an alliance between Germany and Mexico

Question 12

Selective Service Act

Answer 12

Law requiring men to register for military service

Question 13

Convoy System

Answer 13

Having Merchant ships travel in groups protected by warships

Question 14

American Expeditionary Force

Answer 14

The name given to the American military force that fought in World War I

Question 15

John J. Pershing

Answer 15

The commander of the American Expeditionary Force

Question 16

Eddie Richenbacker

Answer 16

Famous American fighter pilot

Question 17

Alvin York

Answer 17

American war hero

Question 18

Conscientious objector

Answer 18

A person who believes fighting is wrong and therefore does not want to fight in the military

Question 19

Armistice

Answer 19

Trice agreement

Question 20

War industries Board

Answer 20

Agency to improve efficiently in war - related industries

Question 21

Bernard M. Baruch

Answer 21

Leader of the War Industries Board

Question 22

Committee on Public Information

Answer 22

A government agency established during World War I that used communication to influence people’s thoughts and actions.

Question 23

Propaganda

Answer 23

A kind of biased communication designed to influence people’s thoughts and actions

Question 24

George Creel

Answer 24

Head of the Committee on Public Information

Question 25

Espionage and Sedition Acts

Answer 25

Laws that enacted harsh penalties against anyone opposing U.S. participation in World War I

Question 26

Great Migration

Answer 26

Movement of many African Americans to northern cities from the South in the early 1900’s

Question 27

Fourteen Points

Answer 27

Wilson’s plan for world peace following WWI

Question 28

Self determination

Answer 28

The right of people to choose their own political status

Question 29

League of Nations

Answer 29

A international peacekeeping organization proposed by Wilson and founded in 1920

Question 30

Georges Clemenceau

Answer 30

French premier

Question 31

David Lloyd George

Answer 31

British prime minister

Question 32

Treaty of Versailles

Answer 32

The 1919 treaty that ended WWI

Question 33

War-guilt clause

Answer 33

Party of the Treaty of Versailles in which Germany took responsibility for the war

Question 34

Henry Cabot Lodge

Answer 34

Conservative senator who wanted to keep the United States out of the League of Nations