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?

1.)The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary was the immediate cause of World War I that made the above things come into action (alliances, hegemony, militarism, nationalism). A Serb-nationalist militant organization named the Black Hand dispatched groups to kill the Archduke in June 1914.

2.)The immediate precipitating event was the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany on September 1, 1939, and the subsequent declarations of war on Germany made by Britain and France, but many other prior events have been suggested as ultimate causes.

3.)Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire (Central Powers) battled Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Japan and the United States during the conflict (the Allied Powers).

4.)Combat technologies of the time, along with basically modern weapons such as warships, mustard gas, warplanes and tanks, included significant developments in machine guns, bombs, and artillery.

5.)President Woodrow Wilson announced that the United States would remain neutral after World War I broke out in Europe in 1914, and many Americans supported this non-intervention stance.

6.)On 7 May 1915, Lusitania was a British ocean liner that was sunk 11 miles (18 km) off the south coast of Ireland by a German submarine, killing 1,198 passengers and crew.

7.)The Russian Revolution, starting with the overthrow of the monarchy in 1917 and ending in 1923 with the Bolshevik creation of the Soviet Union at the end of the Civil War, was a time of political and social revolution throughout the territories of the Russian Empire.

8.)Americans entered the war in 1917 by declaring war on Germany.

10.)During World War I, civil rights were limited by the Spy Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918, which were used to prohibit and prosecute government and war criticism. In addition, since they were believed to help the Germans, some immigrants were imprisoned, refused a trial, and deported.

11.)The second is that World War II provided an economic and social lift to many minority Americans—and women of all races. The demands of the defense industry and the willingness of President Franklin D. Roosevelt to fight Axis misinformation opened high-paying, eligible opportunities to individuals who had never had a shot at them before.

12.)Generally, the Great Migration refers to the large outward migration of Blacks to urban centres and other areas of the world from the South.

13.)The Bolsheviks, led by the leftist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, took power during the Russian Revolution and destroyed the legacy of Czarist rule. The Bolsheviks would later become the Soviet Union's Communist Party.

14.)The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed on March 3, 1918, at Brest-Litovsk (now Brest, Belarus) between the Russian SFSR and the Central Powers, signaling Russia's departure from World War I.

15.)The Soviet Union was a Federal Socialist State in Northern Eurasia, formally the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).

16.)Kaiser Wilhelm abdicated on 9 November and Germany signed an armistice on 11 November 1918, ending the war, with its allies lost, revolution at home, with the military no longer able to fight.

17.)The Fourteen Points are a declaration of peace ideals to be used in peace talks to conclude the First World War.

18.)The Treaty Of versailles was the most relevant of the peace negotiations that brought an end to World War I. The Treaty ended Germany's state of war with the Allied Powers.

19.)The body for foreign relations was the League of Nations.

20.)The U.S. never signed the Treaty of Versailles since President Woodrow Wilson has refused to take into account the objections of senators to the deal.