World War I Vocabulary

The Great Migration was the mass movement of African Americans from where to where during WWI?

• Rural areas to urban areas.
• West Coast to the East Coast
• The South to the North
• The North to the South

What are the name of the acts that made it illegal to criticize the U.S. involvement in the war or encourage draft resisters

• Espionage and Sedition Acts
• Treaty of Versailles and the Fourteen Points
• the Yalta Agreement and the Treaty of Versailles
• The Espionage Act and the Fourteen Points

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

Germany's willingness to attack any ship it deems a possible threat

• Lusitania
• sunken ship
• unrestricted submarine warfare
• u-boat

Who was the President during World War 1?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Woodrow Wilson

• Teddy Roosevelt

• Franklin Roosevelt

According to Woodrow Wilson, the purpose of the League of Nations was

• to remove threat of future wars.
• to prevent nuclear proliferation.
• to help the US gain more territories.
• to help promote prohibition in other countries.

What did the policy of unrestricted submarine warfare refer to?

• Britain’s policy to sink ships in German water, no warning!
• German policy to sink ships in British water without warning
• The U.S. warning of warfare the central powers could expect.
• German decision to focus resources on water around Europe.

This was a war fought between 1914-1918 between the Allied and Central powers that was caused by militarism, an entangled alliance system, imperialism, and nationalism.

• Spanish-American War

• Mexican-American War

• World War I

• World War II

What is the definition of socialism?

• The idea that the means of production, distribution and exchange should be owned and regulated by the community as a whole.

• The idea that all free men over the age of 21 of good standing should have the right to vote.

• The idea that women should have equal political, social and economic rights as men.

• The idea that a country’s trade and industry should be controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

Ran the American Railway Union & later for president as a socialist

• Eugene V. Debs

• Andrew Carnegie

• John D. Rockefeller

• George Pullman