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WWI
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What countries were a part of the Triple Alliance. | Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Italy |
| What countries were part of the Triple Entente? | Great Britain, France, and Russia |
| What event started WW1? | Archduke Ferdinad was assassinated |
| What two people were killed during the Assassination of Ferdinad and what country were they from? | Ferinad and his wife, Sophie. Austria and Hungary. |
| What countries were the central powers? | Germany, Austria-Hungary Bulgaria, and the Ottoman empire. |
| What contries were the Allied Powers? | France, Britain, and Russia |
| What is Stalemate? | A deadlock in which neither side is strong enough to defeat the other. |
| The trenches were..... | 6-8 feet deep, 5 feet wide, covered with barbed wire, filled with mud, rats, and lice. |
| What was battle like in the trenches? | long and deadly with back and forth fighting, lots of artillery, machine gun fire, and chemical gas. |
| Who was the U.S. president during the WW1 era. | Woodrow Wilson |
| Why did the U.S. declare war on Germany? | Unrestricted submarine warfare. Sinking of the Lusitania. |
| What was the Zimmerman plot? | Germany urged Mexico to invade the U.S., in return Mexico would get the Southwest U.S. back. |
| What date did the Untied States declare war on Germany? | April 6, 1917 |
| What was the Selective Service act? | All men ages 21 to 30 had to register for the draft. |
| How many Americans were drafted in the first 18 months? | 4 million |
| How did the food administration help feed the troops? | Wheatless Monday, Meatless Tuesdays, Victory Gardens, Food prices raised and farmers grew more food. |
| What were 4 jobs that women held during the war? | Factory Jobs, delivered mail, drove trolley cars, delivered mail, police officers, RR engineers, eletric-lift truck drivers. |
| What were the requirements of the treaty of BrestLitovsk? | Russia had to give large amounts of land to Germany. |
| What did the German's hope to accomplish by the "peace offensive"? | Final push to end the war. |
| Who were the Harlem Hellfighters? | An all African American unit that spent the most time under fire and won the Croix de Guerre for their bravery from the French. |
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