WW1 vocabulary quiz

Definition

America's foreign policy at the start of WW1. The USA wanted to stay out

of the war. Did not openly support either alhiance and sold goads to both

sides

• Neutrality

• Zimmerman Note

• Allied powers

• Lusitania

Passenger ship sunk by the Germans as a result of unrestricted submarine

warfare. American gov't was using the ship to send ammo and supplies to

Britain. 128 American civilians were killed. A main cause for U.S. entrance

into the WW I.

• Propaganda

• Civil Liberties

• Espionage Act

• Lusitania

Promise made in 1916 by Germany to the USA to end unrestricted

submarine warfare. USA wanted freedom of the seas.

• Neutrality

• Sussex pledge

• Allied powers

• Central powers

Form of communication aimed towards influencing the attitude of the

Propaganda

community toward some cause or position by presenting only one side of an

argument. U.S. gov't used it to gain support and funding for WWI.

• Propaganda

• Allied powers

• Central powers

• 14 points

One of the leading causes of the U.S. entrance into WWI. Germans would

sink all ships entering the war zone without warning.

• Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

• 14 points

• Central powers

• Allied powers

Great Britain, France, Italy and Russia. U,S.A. joins when we enter the

war in 1917. Russia leaves alliance because of a communist revolution in

their country. GOOD GUYS

• Zimmerman Note

• Russian Revolution

• American Revolution

• Allied Powers

Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, & Ottoman Empire during WWI.

• Central Powers

• Allied powers

• Alliances

• First Red Scare

A 1917 proposition from Germany to Mexico that was intercepted by the

U.S.A. The Germans asked Mexico to join the Central Powers and attack

the U.S.A. In return for joining the war Mexico would receive Texas, New

Mexico and Arizona.

• Imperialism

• Militarism

• Zimmerman Note

• Neutrality

Bolshevik/Communist revolution in Russia against the autocratic Tsarist

Revolution

govt. Leads Russia to stop fighting in the WW I and becoming the Soviet

Union.

• 14 points

• Russian Revolution

• Palmer raids

• Neutrality

Rights or freedoms given to the people by the First Amendment to the

Constitution, by common law, or legislation, allowing the individual to be

Liberties

free to speak, think, assemble, organize, worship, or petition without

government (or even private) interference or restraints. During times of

national crisis people lose these rights.

• Civil rights

• Civil Liberties

• Treaty of Versailles

• Big four