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Chapter 19 Studyguide
WWI
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11th Grade
10/10/2013

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What are the causes for WWI?
Definition
  • Militarism
  • Alliances
  • Imperialism
  • Nationalism
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What was the result of the court case Schenck v. the U.S.?
Definition
Limited individual freedom of speech from falsely conveying danger
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What sparked the first decleration of WWI?
Definition
The assasination of Franz Ferdinand
Term
Were women allowed to officially serve in the military?
Definition
Yes but only nurses could go overseas
Term
What did the Fuel Administration introduce to conserve energy?
Definition
Day Light Savings Time
Term
What was the Great Migration?
Definition
African Americans and Mexicans going north for work
Term
What countries were part of the "Big Four"?
Definition
  • U.S.
  • Britain
  • Italy
  • France
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What countries were part of the Triple Alliance?
Definition
  • Ottoman Empire
  • Germany
  • Austria-Hungary
  • Italy
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What was stated in the Zimmerman telegram?
Definition
If Mexico sided with Germany, Germany would help them reclaim lost territory.
Term
What was ordered in the Selective Service Act?
Definition
For Conscription to be legal for men age 21-30
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What was the task of the committee of public information?
Definition
To sell the war to America
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What two acts silenced criticism of the war?
Definition
  • Sedition Act
  • Espionage Act
Term
What were airplanes used for in WWI?
Definition
Observing the enemy
Term
What region in southeastern Europe believed in the idea of nationalism?
Definition
Balkans
Term
Who fought for the Triple Entente?
Definition
  • Great Britain
  • France
  • Russia
Term
What are U-boats?
Definition
Submarines
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What are dogfights?
Definition
Airplane battles
Term
Who were doughboys?
Definition
Young American Soldiers
Term
What group took power in Russia and established a Communist government?
Definition
The Bolshevicks
Term
What was the major problem in Germany's plan to invade France?
Definition
Germany had to march through Belgium which was believied to be neutral territory but it turned out that Belgium had decided to join with France.
Term
What was the task of the War Industries Board?
Definition
To look over the construction of supplies for the war effort
Term
What was the purpose of the Sussex Plege?
Definition
To make germany give warning before sinking ships
Term
What was the result of the Battle of the Argonne Forest?
Definition
We broke open a hole in the German lines and one, it was the most massive bloodiest battle in U.S. History
Term
What was the result of the Treaty or Brest-Litovsk?
Definition
Germany gets Poland, Ukraine, and Finland from Russia.
Term
Who was sent to capture Pancho Villa?
Definition
John J. Pershing
Term
What Serbian group was behind the assasination of Archduke Ferdinand?
Definition
The Black Hands
Term
Who was appointed to head the War Industries Board?
Definition
Bernard Bararch
Term
What was the only Allied Power not invited to the Paris Peace Conference?
Definition
Russia
Term
What treaty ended the war?
Definition
Treaty of Versallies
Term
What was the name of the Russian Communist Party and who was the leader?
Definition
Bolshevicks, Vladamir Lenin
Term
Define No Man's Land
Definition
The area between the trenches
Term
What were some new technologies used during WWI?
Definition
  • Machine guns
  •  Tanks 
  • Poison gas
  • Gas masks
  • Air planes
Term
Describe the events that pushed the U.S. toward entering WWI?
Definition
  • The sinking of the Lusitania
  • The breaking of the Sussex Pledge
  • The Zimmerman Telegram
Term
Describe Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points by summarizing the main purpose of the first five, then the next eight, and finally the fourteenth point?
Definition
  • Free Trade
  • Disarmament
  • Freedom of the Seas
  • Impartial Adjustment of Colonial Claims
  • Open Democracy
  • Central Powers have to evacuate the countries they invaded
  • The League of Nations
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What were the results of WWI?
Definition
  • The Treaty of Versallies
  • The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
  • Germany paying for War Damages
  • The Fourteen Points
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