2.2 WWI

A major purpose of President Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points (1918) was to

• ask Congress to enter World War I

• set goals for achieving peace after World War I

• provide an aid program for rebuilding war-torn nations

• retaliate for the sinking of the Lusitania

We intend to begin on the first of February unrestricted submarine warfare. We shall endeavor in spite of this to keep the United States of America neutral. In the event of this not succeeding, we make Mexico a proposal of alliance on the following basis: make war together, make peace together, generous financial support and an understanding on our part that Mexico is to reconquer the lost territory in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. The settlement in detail is left to you.…

— Telegram of January 19, 1917

This telegram was part of an effort to...

• form an alliance between Germany and the United States

• convince several western states to secede from the United States

• bring Mexico into World War I on the side of Great Britain and France

• enlist Mexican support for Germany if the United States declared war

The United States tried to avoid involvement in World War I by following a policy of

• neutrality/isolationism

• collective security

• economic boycotts

• military preparedness

The main reason for the increased migration of African Americans out of the rural South during and following World War I was the

• availability of cheap farmland in the West

• opportunity for factory jobs in the North

• chance to escape racial segregation by joining the military

• elimination of the Ku Klux Klan in the northern states

Use the pie chart below and your knowledge of U.S. history to answer the following question.

Which of the following reasons best accounts for the percentage of U.S. deaths in relation to other countries’ percentage.

• The U.S. entered the war early and therefore experienced a great number of deaths on the battlefield.

• The U.S. experienced a large number of accidental deaths which contributed to a high percentage of deaths.

• The U.S. entered the war late and therefore experienced a low number of deaths on the battlefield.

• The U.S. had a large number of men volunteer to fight alongside Russia, which meant that they were counted as part of Russia’s percentage of deaths.

Which of the following was NOT a cause of World War I?

• nationalism

• imperialism

• militarism

• socialism

What was the agreement between Germany and the United States in which Germany vows to stop using unrestricted submarine warfare?

• Zimmerman Note

• Sussex Pledge

• Treaty of Versailles

• Great Migration

The political cartoon illustrates which threat to U.S. neutrality in 1917?

• the limited navy that the U.S possessed in 1917

• an inability on the part of the U.S. to trade with Europe

• unrestricted submarine warfare on the part of the Germans

• the threat of attack by Germans on the east coast of the U.S

Area between two trenches that was difficult to travel across

• No Man's Land

• Mason-Dixon Line

• Danger Zone

• The Great Plains

New technology created to overcome the difficulties caused by trench warfare

• Tanks

• Air Planes

• Zeppelin

• Machine Guns