World War 1

Question 1

Question

What’re the 5 main causes of WW1?

(List them and tell me what the abbreviation for them are)

Answer 1

1. Militarism
2. Alliances
3. Nationalism
4. Imperialism
5. Assasination (Franz)

Question 2

Question

Why did the US join the war?

Answer 2

Primarly because of Unrestricted Sumbarine Warfare and the Zimmerman Telegram

Question 3

Question

What is a trench system and what was trench life like?

Answer 3

The trench system was where soldiers would live and fight during the war. Trench life was hard because it was cold, muddy, wet, and full of rats and diseases. Soldiers would often live in fear of attacks and didnt sleep well.

Question 4

Question

How did the US prepare for the war once it joined?

Answer 4

Propaganda, Victory Gardens, influencing businessed to focus on helping the military, Selective Service Acts, and production of military equipment from factories.

Question 5

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How did the US switch from consumer production to military production in WW1?

Answer 5

Factories started making more war like materials such as weapons and tanks instead of their previous stuff. They started making more stuff for soldiers rather than consumers.

Question 6

Vocab

Belief that a country should have a strong military was known as what?

Answer 6

Militarism

Question 7

Vocab

Promise that countries would support each other were known as what?

Answer 7

Alliance

Question 8

Vocab

Strong belief in one’s country was known as what?

Answer 8

Nationalism

Question 9

Vocab

One powerful nation controlling alll was known as what?

Answer 9

Imperialism

Question 10

Vocab

France, Great Britain, Russia, US, Italy, and Japan were known as what?

Answer 10

Allied Powers

Question 11

Vocab

Germany, Austria, Ottoman, Turkey, and Bulgaria were known as what?

Answer 11

Central Powers

Question 12

Vocab

What were the 3 main parts of the battleground called?

Answer 12

Trenches, over the top, no man’s land.

Question 13

Vocab

What was used to prevent a two-front war by quickly defeating France and Russia?

Answer 13

Scheiflen Plan

Question 14

Vocab

What was the area between Germany and France called?

Answer 14

(Front) Western Front

Question 15

Vocab

What was seperation from the outside world called?

Answer 15

Isolationism

Question 16

Vocab

What was the secret military alliance betwen Germany and Mexico called?

Answer 16

Zimmerman Telegram

Question 17

Vocab

What was German U-Boats sinking American ships without any warning called?

Answer 17

Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

Question 18

Vocab

What was the ship that sunk, and was one of the biggest causes of WW1?

Answer 18

Luisitania

Question 19

Vocab

What were works to influence others to join the war known as?

Answer 19

Propaganda

Question 20

Vocab

What required all men ages 18 to 45 to register for military services?

Answer 20

Selective Service Act

Question 21

Vocab

What coordinated the production of war materials and supplies?

Answer 21

War Industries Board

Question 22

Vocab

What made it illegal to convey information that could potentionally harm war efforts?

(Ultimately try to silence any type of opposition)

Answer 22

Espionage and Sedition Acts

Question 23

Vocab

What limited free speech if it was posed as a threat or harm?

Answer 23

Scheneck v. United States

Question 24

Vocab

What influenced public support for the war effort through various propaganda techniques?

Answer 24

Committee on Public Information

Question 25

# Vocab What was the **movement of African American's** from Rural South to Urban North areas called?

Answer 25

Great Migration

Question 26

# Vocab What is an **agreement not to fight**, but not quite an alliance known as?

Answer 26

Armistice

Question 27

# Vocab What were **taxes** used to fix damage and losses caused by Germany called?

Answer 27

Reparations

Question 28

# Vocab What was the **meeting to negotiate** the peace plans to officially end WW1 known as?

Answer 28

Paris Peace Conference

Question 29

# Vocab What was the **peace agreement** that formally **ended WW1** known as?

Answer 29

Treaty of Varsailles

Question 30

# Vocab What was created after WW1in order to **prevent future wars.**

Answer 30

League of Nations

Question 31

# Vocab What was said to have "ended the war without punishment"

Answer 31

Election of 1916

Question 32

# Vocab What was the right for people to **choose their governments** called?

Answer 32

Self-Determination

Question 33

# Vocab What was **Wilson's plan** to go easy on Germany called?

Answer 33

The 14 Point Plan | (Also Known as The 14 Points)

Question 34

# People WHO led the first **american soldiers**?

Answer 34

John J. Pershing

Question 35

# People WHO was the **chairman** of the War Industires Board? | (Also a wall street influencer)

Answer 35

Bernard Baruch

Question 36

# People WHO **was assasinated** and became one of the main causes of the war?

Answer 36

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Question 37

# People WHO was the **1st head of sov gov.** and pulled russia out of the war?

Answer 37

Vladimir Lenin

Question 38

# People WHO was the last **russian emporer?**

Answer 38

Czar Nicholas | Pizza Pizza

Question 39

# People WHO directed government propaganda and was the head of the **Committee on Public Information?**

Answer 39

George Creel

Question 40

# People WHO was the **president** during ww1?

Answer 40

Woodrow Wilson

Question 41

# People WHO was the greatest **WW1 hero?** | (He also killed a lot of germans)

Answer 41

Alvin York

Question 42

# People WHO **didn't** want to go to war?

Answer 42

Eugene Debs

Question 43

# People WHO assasinated **Franz Ferdinand?**

Answer 43

Gavrilo Princip