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?

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2) An Austro-Hungarian was murdered by a Serbian. The Austro-Hungarians gave the Serbians an ultimatum. Serbia refused and Austro-Hungaria, and their ally Germany declared war on Serbia. Serbia teamed up with Russia, the UK, and France.

3) Axis Powers Vs. The Allies. Germany, Austro-Hungaria, The Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria were the Axis. France, the UK, the US, Russia, and Serbia were part of the Allies.

4) Planes were used for warfare. They used chemical warfare. Tanks were created. Guns got better and turned into things like the Machine Gun.

5) Americans wanted to go to war. Increasingly after Germany attacked the US. The US declared war against Germany went it sent the Zimmerman Telegraph to Mexico.

6) It was a passenger ship carrying supplies for the allies.

7) Russia pulled out of World War | and the people overthrew the Tsar.

8) Because Germany sent a message to Mexico, asking them to attack the US.

9) The US remained a stance of Neutrality.

10) During the war, more than 2,000 men and women were arrested for "disloyal" speech, and over 1200 went to jail. In addition to these attacks on free speech, the government violated basic legal protections in other ways. Some conscientious objectors were court-martialed and mistreated in military prisons.

11) The war created opportunities for African Americans to demand their civil rights, in and outside of the Army. Moreover, the war transformed the racial and political consciousness of a generation of black people, especially those who served in the military.

12) The Great Migration was one of the largest movements of people in United States history. Approximately six million Black people moved from the American South to Northern, Midwestern, and Western states roughly from the 1910s until the 1970s.

13) Russian Revolution of 1917, Revolution that overthrew the imperial government and placed the Bolsheviks in power. Increasing governmental corruption, the reactionary policies of Tsar Nicholas II, and catastrophic Russian losses in World War I contributed to widespread dissatisfaction and economic hardship.

14) Negotiations began at Brest-Litovsk on December 22. ... By the terms of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Russia recognized the independence of Ukraine, Georgia and Finland; gave up Poland and the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia to Germany and Austria-Hungary; and ceded Kars, Ardahan and Batum to Turkey.

15) Soviet Union. noun. a former federal republic in E Europe and central and N Asia: the revolution of 1917 achieved the overthrow of the Russian monarchy and the Soviet Union (the USSR) was established in 1922 as a Communist state. It was the largest country in the world, occupying a seventh of the total land surface.

16) In 1918, the infusion of American troops and resources into the western front finally tipped the scale in the Allies' favor. Germany signed an armistice agreement with the Allies on November 11, 1918. World War I was known as the “war to end all wars” because of the great slaughter and destruction it caused.

17) The Fourteen Points was a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I. The principles were outlined in a January 8, 1918 speech on war aims and peace terms to the United States Congress by President Woodrow Wilson.

18) The Treaty of Versailles is one of the most controversial armistice treaties in history. The treaty's so-called “war guilt” clause forced Germany and other Central Powers to take all the blame for World War I. This meant a loss of territories, reduction in military forces, and reparation payments to Allied powers.

19) The League of Nations, was the first worldwide intergovernmental organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace