Question

CHAPTER NINE: WORLD WAR I

1) What factors helped lead up to “The Great War”?
2) What caused World War I?
3) What two sides fought in World War I?
4) What new weapons and tactics characterized World War I?
5) How did Americans feel and respond to “The Great War” between 1914 and 1917?
6) What was the Lusitania?
7) What was the Russian Revolution (1917)?
8) Why did the U.S. enter the war in 1917?
9) What domestic policies did the U.S. implement during the war?
10) How were civil rights limited in the U.S. during World War I?
11) How did the war affect minorities in the U.S.?
12) What was the Great Migration?
13) What was the Bolshevik Revolution?
14) What was the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
15) What was the Soviet Union?
16) How did World War I come to an end?
17) What were Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points?
18) What was the Treaty of Versailles?
19) What was the League of Nations?
20) Why did the U.S. never sign the Treaty of Versailles?

Answer 1

1. There was great nationalism and there was a lot of alliances
2. The assasination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand
3. The central powers and the Allied powers
4. There was the tank, and trench warfare
5. They wanted to stay out of it
6. Was a British ship that was sank which lead to US joining the war
7. A revolution to turn the country into communism
8. Because many innocent lives were lost on the Lusitania
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14. Not sure
15. It was the communist Russia
16. The signing of the treaty of Versailles
17. I’m not sure
18. The treaty to end ww1
19. A group that wasn’t successful they tried to be the UN
20. Because they didn’t agree with blaming only Germany