World War 1 vocab quiz

Germans would not sink merchant & passenger (non-military) vessels. Wilson - "any little . . . [U-boat] commander can put is into war at any time by some calculated outrage". Violated later with the later resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare

• Selective Service Act
• Espionage Act
• Sussex Pledge

This 1917 law provided for the registration of all American men between the ages of 21 and 30 for a military draft. By the end of WWI, 24.2 had registered; 2.8 had been inducted into the army. Age limit was later changed to 18 to 45.

• Espionage Act
• Selective Service Act
• Sherman Act

US forces sent to Europe to fight the Germans; assisted French and British

• American Expeditionary Force
• Tuskegee Airmen
• Uncle Sams Boys

this American general led a punitive force into Mexico in pursuit of Pancho Villa after Villa's attack on Columbus, NM in 1916. During WWI, he also led the American Expeditionary Forces.

• Douglas MacArthur
• Alvin York
• John J. Pershing

German submarines

• U-boats
• USS Maine
• Artillery

28th president of the United States, known for World War I leadership, created Federal Reserve, Federal Trade Commission, Clayton Antitrust Act, progressive income tax, lower tariffs, women's suffrage (reluctantly), Treaty of Versailles, sought 14 points post-war plan, League of Nations (but failed to win U.S. ratification), won Nobel Peace Prize

• Theodore Roosevelt
• Woodrow Wilson
• Franklin D. Roosevelt

The war aims outlined by President Wilson in 1918, which he believed would promote lasting peace; called for self-determination, freedom of the seas, free trade, end to secret agreements, reduction of arms and a league of nations.

• Fourteen Points
• German Armistice
• Wilson Doctrine

The compromise after WW1, settled land and freedom disputes. Germany had to take full blame for the war in order for the treaty to pass, among other things. The US Senate rejected it.

• Treaty of Versailles
• Treaty of Paris
• Treaty of Panama

What did the allied countries create in order to maintain peace and stability in the world?

• League of Nations
• Warsaw Pact

a Republican who disagreed with the Versailles Treaty, and who was the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He mostly disagreed with the section that called for the League to protect a member who was being threatened.

• Henry Cabot Lodge
• Jose Altuve
• Alfred Thayer Mahan