Chapter 11 Study Guide: Know the following terms and questions
Terms
- Armistice
- Fourteen Points
- League of Nations
- Militarism
- Propaganda
- Selective Service Act
- Treaty of Versailles
- Trench Warfare
- War Guilt Clause
- Zimmerman Note
- Sedition and Espionage Act
- Great Migration
- Allied Powers
- Central Powers
- Assassination of Ferdinand
- American Neutrality
- U-Boats
- Lusitania
- “Black Jack” – John J. Pershing
World War I Essential Questions:
- What were the overreaching causes of World War I?
- And how was the war fought before the US became involved?
2. Why did the US choose to remain neutral at first?
- What changed that caused US public opinion to favor the war?
3. As the US entered the war, what problems did we face militarily?
- What new weapons were used to fight the war?
- How did US involvement change the tide of the fighting?
4. How did the US government fight the war economically?
- How did it promote the war to gain support?
- And how did that propaganda have a negative effect on some people?
5. How did the war affect women and minorities?
6. What were Wilson’s main hopes with his fourteen points?
7. How did the views of the European countries and Wilson’s views about peace differ at the end of the war?
8. What were the long term consequences of the War?