WWI At Home

During World War I, the Central Powers were

• Germany, Italy, and Japan
• Britain, France, and Russia
• Germany, Britain, and France
• Germany, Austria - Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire

The Zimmerman Telegram can best be described by which of the following?

• Great Britain promised the U.S. that they would help them gain territories in Europe
• Mexico vowed to help the U.S.  and the Allies in World War I
• Germany asked Mexico to declare war on the U.S. to regain lost territories
• Russia withdrew from the war due to the revolution that was occurring in the country

Why did the U.S. sell "liberty bonds" during the war?

• To control wages and prices
• To raise money for the war
• To rally support for the war
• To conserve scarce resources

The U.S. entered World War I in

• 1918
• 1914
• 1917
• 1920

What large scale movement moved hundreds of thousands of African Americans out of the South and into the Midwest and Northeast

• Large Migration
• Great Migration
• Lusitania
• Armistice

What government agency regulated and maintained war production?

• War Industry Board (WIB)
• Committee on Public Information (CPI)
• American Federation of Labor
• War Inspection Committee

An agreement between two or more countries to help each other  during times of conflict is called

• a treaty
• an alliance
• a partnership
• a friendship

President of the US during World War I. When the war started, he wanted the US to remain neutral.

• John F. Kennedy

• Woodrow Wilson

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

Not choosing a side in a conflict; this was the US approach to the beginning of WWI.

• Engagement

• Neutrality

• Isolationism

British ship sunk by German submarines; there were 127 Americans killed.

• Titanic

• Mayflower

• Lusitania