WW1

Question 1

Mobilization

Answer 1

assembling military troops and weapons for war

Question 2

Gavrillo Princip

Answer 2

assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Question 3

Franz Ferdinand

Answer 3

assassination led to Austria-Hungary’s declaration of war against Serbia

Question 4

Militarism

Answer 4

belief that a country should have a strong military capability and be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote its interests

Question 5

Arms Race

Answer 5

increase size and quality of military resources to gain political power over another country

Question 6

Triple Alliance

Answer 6

Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy. Ended during the war

Question 7

Triple Entente

Answer 7

association between Great Britain, France, and Russia

Question 8

Central Powers

Answer 8

Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire

Question 9

Allied Powers

Answer 9

Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union

Question 10

Trench Warfare

Answer 10

fight from tunnels dug in the ground in order to defend and attack

Question 11

Stalemate

Answer 11

a situation in which neither side in an argument or contest can win or in which no progress is possible

Question 12

Victory Gardens

Answer 12

provided American citizens an opportunity to assist with the war effort, encouraged to produce their own food

Question 13

Propaganda

Answer 13

biased information used to promote political cause or point of view

Question 14

Armistice

Answer 14

truce; made by opposing sides in a war to stop fighting for a certain time

Question 15

Sussex Pledge

Answer 15

germans would not sink passenger ships without warning during ww1

Question 16

Woodrow Wilson

Answer 16

28th president; changed the nation’s economic policies and led the United States into World War I in 1917

Question 17

Censorship

Answer 17

the suppression of words, images, or ideas that are “offensive towards the government

Question 18

Blockade

Answer 18

sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving

Question 19

Lusitania

Answer 19

sunk by a German torpedo

Question 20

Fourteen Points

Answer 20

used for peace negotiations in order to end WW1

Question 21

Espionage Act

Answer 21

crime to interfere with the U.S army or promote enemy success

Question 22

Isolationism

Answer 22

national policy of avoiding political or economic entanglements with other countries

Question 23

US Policy of Neutrality

Answer 23

illegal for Americans to sell or transport arms, or other war materials to belligerent nations

Question 24

Big Four

Answer 24

Britain, France, U.S and italy, negotiate the versallie treaty

Question 25

Treaty of Versailles

Answer 25

formally ended the war; Germany pay financial reparations, disarm, lose territory, and give up all of its overseas colonies

Question 26

Bolsheviks

Question 27

Selective Service Act (1917)

Answer 27

Federal Government temporarily expanded the military through conscription

Question 28

Zimmerman Note (1917)

Answer 28

a coded message sent to Mexico, proposing a military alliance against the United States

Question 29

National Defense Act (1916)

Answer 29

expanded federal powers and funding for gov and a fair price

Question 30

Battle of the Argonne Forest

Answer 30

goal of reaching the railroad junction as Sedan

Question 31

War Industries Board (WIB)

Answer 31

coordinate the purchase of war supplies between the War Department and the Navy Department

Question 32

Causes of World War One (MAINE)

Answer 32

Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism And Nationalism

Question 33

Battle of the Somme

Answer 33

British and French forces victory over the Germans on the western front

Question 34

Sedition Act

Answer 34

illegal to 'write, print, utter or publish any false, scandalous and malicious writing' against the government

Question 35

Paris Peace Conference (1918)

Answer 35

establish the terms of the peace after World War

Question 36

League of Nations

Answer 36

worldwide intergovernmental organisation to maintain world peace

Question 37

“No Man’s Land”

Answer 37

ground between the front lines or trenches of two opposing armies

Question 38

Weapons of World War One

Answer 38

Machine guns, flame thrower, mustard gas, grenades, and artillery

Question 39

“National Self Determination”

Answer 39

national governmental institutions opposed to colonialism and imperialism

Question 40

November 11, 1918

Answer 40

armistice (on the western front) between Germany and the Allies was the first step to ending World War I

Question 41

Russian Revolution (1917)

Answer 41

Russia abolished monarchy to adopt a socialist form of government following two successive revolutions and a bloody civil war

Question 42

Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

Answer 42

submarines sink merchant ships without warning

Question 43

Great Migration/Great Trek North

Answer 43

Dutch-speaking colonists search of land where they could establish their own homeland, independent of British rule