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Pride and devotion to one's nation
Nationalism
Militarism
Isolationism
Expansionism
Policy of building up strong armed forces to prepare for war.
Nationalism
Militarism
Isolationism
Expansionism
Someone who uses threats and violence to promote a cause.
Terrorist
Propagandist
Isolationist
Warmonger
Deadlock in which neither side is strong enough to defeat the other.
Stalemate
Draw
Checkmate
Neutrality
Spreading ideas to help a cause or hurt an opposing cause.
Stalemate
Propaganda
Yellow Journalism
Neutrality
Not taking one side or the other in a conflict.
Neutral
Isolationist
Stalemate
Pacifism
Combat in which soldiers fight from trenches dug in the ground.
Trench Warfare
Trench Combat
Trenchism
Bunker Warfare
A person who tries to stir up war.
Warmonger
Warhawk
Expansionist
Militarist
Another term for the Emperor of Russia
Kaiser
Czar
Cesar
Overlord
Law requiring people of a certain age to serve in the military.
Draft
Conscription
Socialism
Militarism
Being unable to read or write.
Illterate
Literate
Linguistically Challenged
Street Smart
Managing government through departments that are led by appointed officials.
Bureaucracy
Socialism
Democracy
Aristocracy
A person who refuses to fight in any war.
Pacifist
Quaker
Socialist
Anti-Militarist
People that believe that the public, not individuals, should own all property and that social classes should not exist.
Socialist
Expansionist
Pacifist
Communist
An agreement between two sides to stop fighting.
Armistice
Abdication
Cease Fire
Hold
To give up political or social power
Abdicate
Armistice
Aprobate
Allocate
The rapid spread of a contagious disease through a population of people.
Epidemic
Pandemic
Influenza
Plague
Respiratory infection marked by fever, chills, and general feeling of weakness.
Influenza
Bonanza
Epidemic
Black Lung
The right of national groups to have their own territory and forms of government.
Self-determination
Reparation
Isolation
Mandate
Cash payments made to pay for damages and losses during the war.
Reparations
Preparations
Restitutions
Mandates
People who wanted the U.S. to stay out of world affairs.
Isolationists
Expansionists
Reparationists
Imperialists
Authorization to carry out an action
Mandate
Self-determination
Reparation
Stalemate
Which of the options below was NOT a cause for tension in Europe that led to WWI?
Nationalism
Imperialism
Militarism
Expansionism
Which countries made up the Triple Entente?
France, Russia, and Britain
France, the U.S., and Great Britain
Russia, France, and the U.S.
Germany, Italy, and Russia
The Triple Alliance was made up of what countries?
Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy
Germany, Italy, and Russia
Great Britain, France, and the U.S.
Great Britain, France, and Russia
Nationalism caused tension mostly in _____.
the Balkan Peninsula
Eastern Europe
The Mediterranean Coast
Western Europe
Whose assassination is considered the cause of WWI?
Archduke Francis Ferdinand
President Woodrow Wilson
Czar Nikolas II
Vladimir Lenin
The assassination that sparked WWI was carried out by _____.
Serbian terrorists
Russian communists
German militarists
American warmongers
The Triple Entente eventually became _____.
The Allied Powers
The Axis Powers
The Central Powers
The Western Powers
The Triple Alliance eventually became _____.
The Central Powers
The Allied Powers
The Axis Powers
The Eastern Powers
The space between opposing trenches was known as _____.
No man's land
Deadzone
Killzone
No one's land
_____ was a new and deadly weapon used in trench warfare.
Poison gas
Fighter planes
Machine guns
Grenades
Which side did the U.S. take when the war first started?
The Allied Powers
The Central Powers
They remained neutral
They fought against both sides
What was the Lusitania?
A passenger ship carrying Americans that was sunk by German U boats.
A military fort in France that was first attacked by the Germans.
A passenger ship that smuggled weapons to Britain and France.
A warship that destroyed many German U boats.
What was Woodrow Wilson's stance on the war.
Neutral, and refused to get involved.
Neutral, but prepared for war just in case.
Aggressive, siding with the Central Powers
Aggressive, siding with the Allied Powers
What was the relevance of the Zimmerman Telegram?
It was a message from Germany to America, asking for an armistice.
It was a message from Germany to Mexico, asking them to join the Central Powers and attack America.
It was a message from Russia to Germany asking them to allow Russia to leave the war.
It was a message from Germany to Russia, asking for an alliance.
What did Germany promise in the Zimmerman Telegram?
To allow Russia to leave the war peacefully.
To help Mexico re-take Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona from the U.S.
To help Mexico take Puerto Rico and Cuba from the U.S.
To allow France to end the war peacefully.
Which of the following was NOT a major factor in the U.S.'s involvement in WWI?
the Russian Revolution
the sinking of the Lusitania
the Zimmerman Telegram
the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand
Why did the Russian Revolution help to bring the U.S. into WWI?
It allowed Woodrow Wilson to support a democracy, not an absolute ruler.
Woodrow Wilson did not like Czar Nikolas II when he was in power.
Woodrow Wilson wanted to stop the spread of Communism.
Woodrow Wilson was friends with Czar Nikolas II and wanted to avenge him.
What piece of legislation required men to register for a draft?
Selective Service Act
Conscription Act
War Industries Act
Citizen Service Act
The _____ was in charge of conserving food to send to the troops.
Food Administration
Food and Drug Administration
War Industries Board
War Ration Board
The _____ was in charge of regulating the war goods factories were producing.
War Industries Board
Food Administration
War Labor Board
Factories Commission
How did the government raise money to fund the war?
selling War Bonds
Selling war goods to other countries
Taxing U.S. citizens
Borrowing money from other countries
Why did Socialists oppose the war?
They believed it would only benefit wealthy factory owners, whom they hated.
They believed it would benefit the lower class, whom they hated.
They believed it would damage the American economy.
They feared that the war would reach U.S. soil.
Which group overthrew the Russian Czar?
The Bolsheviks
The Communists
The Marxists
The Leninites
Who led the Bolsheviks?
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Putin
Joseph Stalin
Arthur Zimmerman
The _____ allowed Russia to leave the war if they gave some land to Germany.
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Brest-Versailles
Treaty of Versailles-Litovsk
American forces in Europe during WWI were known as the _____.
American Expeditionary Force
Trans-Atlantic Army
American Expeditionary Army
Trans-Atlantic Force
The Harlem Hellfighters were awarded the _____ for their bravery in battle.
Croix De Guerre
Nom De Guerre
Medal of Honor
Croix De Gaul
The first major American battle in WWI was the Battle of _____.
Belleau Wood
the Argonne Forest
the Marne
Paris
On October 4, 1918, Germany requested a(n) _____.
Armistice
Abdication
Cease Fire
Unconditional Surrender
What was one of Woodrow Wilson's conditions for accepting the armistice?
Abdication of the German Kaiser
Abdication of Vladimir Lenin
He had no conditions
Creation of the League of Nations
The _____ after WWI was even more deadly than the war itself.
Influenza Epidemic
Black Plague
Bird Flu Epidemic
Ebola Epidemic
Which was NOT one of the Big Four?
Woodrow Wilson
Georges Clemenceau
David Lloyd George
Henry Cabot Lodge
Vittorio Orlando
Wilson's peace plan was known as the _____.
Fourteen Points
Fourteen Pillars
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Treaty of Versailles
Wilson's Fourteenth Point called for _____.
the creation of the League of Nations
the authorization of the Treaty of Versailles
the acceptance of the armistice
the authorization of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Which was NOT a condition of the Treaty of Versailles?
Germany would take blame for the war
Germany had to pay reparations to France and Britain
Germany had to pay reparations to Russia and Austria-Hungary
Germany had to give up its overseas colonies
Who led the critics of the League of Nations?
Henry Cabot Lodge
Vittorio Orlando
Georges Clemenceau
Vladimir Lenin
Which country did NOT take part in the League of Nations?
The United States
Great Britain
France
Italy
Who led the American Expeditionary Force?
John J. Pershing
Woodrow Wilson
Matthew Perry
George S. Patton
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