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| When did World War One occur? | 1914 to 1918 |
| What were four MAINcauses of WWI? | Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism |
| What event triggered the outbreak of war? | The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28,1914 in Sarajevo |
| Who was the commander of the American Expeditionary force (AEF)? | John Pershing |
| Who was the head of the German Empire in WWI? | Kaiser Wilhelm II |
| Who told Americans to plant victory gardens during the war? He headed up the American economy effort. | Herbert Hoover |
| Who was the American President during WWI? | Woodrow Wilson |
| What was Wilson's campaign slogan in the 1916 race for reelection? | "He kept us out of war" |
| What is a U-boat? | German submarine |
| What term means a buildup of weaons, armies and navies? | Militarism |
| What was the largest luxury liner afloat until it was torpedoed by Germans? | Lusitania |
| Who or what was "Big Bertha"? | Germany's monster field cannon with a range of over 60 miles. |
| What did Amendment XVIII prohibit? | The manufacture, sale and transportation of intoxicating liquor |
| What was the name given to the burned, blasted and bard-wire area between two opposing trench lines? | No Man's Land |
| What was the official U.S. foreign policy before WWI? | Neutrality |
| Why did it take so long for the U.S. to enter WWI? | Because there were so many immigrants who supported the Central powers |
| Which countries were the Central Powers? | Germany, Ottoman Turk Empire, Austria-Hungary. |
| What was the greatest killer in WWI? | The 1918 Flu Epidemic |
| What was the primary type of fighting in WWI? | Trench warfare |
| What was the American rallying cry in WWI? | "LaFayette, we are here" |
| Which countries were the principal Allied Powers before the U.S. entered the war? | England, France, Russia |
| What were doughboys? | American soldiers |
| How did US businesses profit from WWI? | They sold products and granted loans to the Allied powers. |
| What revelation resulted in Wilson asking Congress for a declaration of war against Germany? | The Zimmerman telegram and Germany's resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare |
| What major social change involved US blacks in WWI? | Major population shift of negroes out of the rural south into industrialized northern cities. |
| What is an enabling act? | A law that allows a constitutional amendment to be enforced. |
| What enabling act was passed to enforce prohibition? | The Volstead Act. |
| By what year were American soldiers fighting in WWI? | 1918 |
| What word best describes trench warfare? | stalemate |
| What were Liberty Loans? | Selling government bonds to support the war |
| What word means a combination of letters or numbers that recresent other letters or numbers? | A cipher |
| What Milwaukee Socialist was tried for a federal crime to silence his opposition to the war? | Victor Berger |
| What Wisconsin Senator was called a traitor because he opposed the war as contrary to America's national interests? | Robert LaFollette, Sr. |
| What was the bloodiest battle of the war? | Battle of the Somme (July 1916) |
| What were four results of the war? | Map of Eurpe changed, 10 million battlefield dead, Russian (communist) Revolution, Europe in debt |
| What was the conclusion that ended the fighting? | Surrender and armistice (truce) on Nov. 11, 1918 |
| What was the turning point of the war? | Meuse-Argonne Offensive |
| Who were the 4 minute men? | 75,000 speakers who promoted pattiotism while movie reels were changed |
| How did Hollywood support the war? | Patriotic silent movies and Hollystars making speeches for libery bonds, enlistment and volunteerism. |
| What were new technologies of the war/ | poison gas, submarines, airplanes, tanks, flamethrowers |
| What was the Creel Commission? | Madison Avenue advertisers hired by the government to "sell" the war to Americans |
