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Chapter 21 World War I
Textbook/Class Notes
Instructions:
Use the Powerpoint presentation, American Nation textbook
pages 640-671, and your class notes to answer these questions.
1. What is nationalism? (Slide 2)
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2. What is Imperialism? (Slide 2)
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3. What was the Triple Alliance? (Slide 3)
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4. What caused the Austria-Hungry to declare war? (Slide 4)
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5. What was the name of the war that lasted from 1914-1918?
(Slide 5)
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6. Which countries made up the Ottoman or Turkish Empire?
(Slide 6)
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7. What was trench warfare? (Slide 8)
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8. What countries made up the Central Powers? (Map page 7)
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9. What was a weapon soldiers used in World War I? (Slide 9)
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10. What did position did President Woodrow Wilson urge the
United States to take? (Slide 10)
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11. Who was a war hero of World War I for the Germans?
(Slide 11)
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12. What is propaganda? (Slide 12)
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13. What is a U-boat? (Slide 12)
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14. In the cartoon, what does the woman in the cartoon in the
back represent? (Slide 13)
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15. What was the name of the American ship that was sunk by
the German submarine? (Slide 14)
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16. What did Henry Ford try to do? (Slide 15)
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17. What is a warmonger? (Slide 16)
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18. What is submarine warfare? (Slide 16)
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19. How did the Zimmerman Telegram cause the United States
to join World War I? (Slide 16)
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20. What was the Russian Revolution? (Slide 17)
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21. What was the Selective Services Act? (Slide 18)
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22. Who wrote the song, “Over There?” (Slide 18)
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23. What was the military draft? (Slide 18)
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24. What did W.E.B DuBois voice his opinion on? (Slide 20)
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25. What is a bureaucracy? (Slide 21)
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26. What was Herbert Hoover’s job? (Slide 21)
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27. What were Liberty Bonds? (Slide 12)
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28. How did women help the war effort? (Slide 23)
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29. Describe what is happening in the picture on slide 24.
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30. What is a pacifist? (Slide 25)
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31. What did the United States send to France? (Slide 26)
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32. Who led the Bolsheviks in Russia? (Slide 27)
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33. What did the Bolsheviks want to bring to Russia? (Slide 27)
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34. Who commanded the American Army? (Slide 28)
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35. What was the name of the first African fighting unit in
World War I? (Slide 28)
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36. What was the first battle the Americans fought in? (Slide 29)
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37. Define the term, abdicate. (Slide 29)
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38. What is an armistice? (Slide 29)
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39. What is a Republic?
(Open the link on slide 30 or use a textbook glossary)
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40. What disease spread in 1918 around the world? (Slide 31)
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41. What is an epidemic? (Slide 31)
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42. What was President Wilson’s Fourteen Points plan to do?
(Slide 32 See the glossary of the Textbook or open the link on the slide)
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43. What is self determination? (Slide 32)
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44. What was the job of the League of Nations? (Slide 33)
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45. What do you think Wilson meant when he said, “Peace
without victory?” (Slide 43, What are your own feelings?)
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46. What are reparations? (Slide 35)
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47. What is painted on slide 36?
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48. What two countries were created out of the Treaty of
Versailles? (Slide 37)
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49. What is an isolationist? (Slide 37)
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50. What happened to President Roosevelt in 1919? (Slide 38)
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