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US involvement WWI
Week 15 Social Study Guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| • The US entered the war in | 1917 |
| • A nickname for American troops | Doughboy |
| The president of the United States during WWI | • Woodrow Wilson |
| • Woodrow Wilson’s “Fourteen Points” | a plan for a lasting peace |
| • The United States brought the extra strength the Allied Powers needed to | defeat the Central Powers |
| • Nationalism is when | the citizens of a country have a strong love or pride for their homeland. |
| • The Lusitania was | a British ocean liner Germany sunk killing 128 Americans. |
| • When WWI began the United States | chose to remain neutral. |
| • In the Zimmerman telegram | Germany promised to Mexico as part of their alliance territory in the Southwestern United States. |
| • Reparations | are the payments by the loosing side to the victors for losses suffered during a war. |
| • The Treaty of Versailles | required Germany to pay reparations, limit its military in size, weapons, and location. |
| • The United States fought in the war but did not | sign the Treaty of Versailles. |
| • The League of Nations was the international organization created | at the end of WWI to prevent future wars. |