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- 3. A government agency created by President Woodrow Wilson in 1917, during World War I, to promote pro-war propaganda to the American public.
- 4. Beginning during World War I, the mass movement of millions of African Americans from the rural South to cities in the North and Midwest in order to take jobs in industry
- 6. An unarmed British ocean liner whose sinking by a German U-boat on May 7, 1915, influenced the U.S. decision to enter World War I.
- 14. In World War I, the first U.S. military force to be deployed to France.
- 15. The former colonies given over by the League of Nations to France and Britain to administer.
- 17. During World War I, a coded telegram that German foreign minister Arthur Zimmermann sent to the German minister in Mexico proposing that if the United States entered the war, Mexico and Germany should become allies; it helped influence the United States to declare war on Germany five weeks later.
- 21. A weapon that contains a poisonous substance.
- 24. Information or rumors spread by a group or government to promote its cause or ideas or to damage an opposing cause or idea.
- 26. A law passed by Congress in 1917 to make it illegal to spy, interfere with government foreign policy, or resist the military draft.
- 27. At the Paris peace conference, the nickname for the leaders of the four largest victorious nations of World War I, including U.S. president Woodrow Wilson, British prime minister David Lloyd George, French prime minister Georges Clemenceau, and Italian prime minister Vittorio Orlando.
- 28. A government-issued bond sold during World War I to raise money for the Allied war effort.
- 29. During World War I, a German promise in 1916 to begin giving advance warning of submarine attacks on ocean liners and to spare the lives of passengers and crew.
- 30. A law passed by Congress in 1918 to make it illegal to say anything disloyal, profane, or abusive about the government or the war effort.
- 31. A peace treaty signed by the Allied powers and Germany on June 28, 1919, at the Paris peace conference at the Palace of Versailles in France; it assigned Germany responsibility for the war, required Germany to pay reparations to the Allied countries, reduced Germany's territory, and included the covenant for the League of Nations
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- 1. A group of vessels or vehicles that travel together, often under the protection of an armed escort.
- 2. During World War I, a German military policy of staging submarine attacks on Allied and neutral nations' unarmed ocean liners without advance warning.
- 5. An international organization established by the Allied powers at the close of World War I to promote international peace and security
- 7. At the end of World War I, a 14-part plan for peace presented by President Woodrow Wilson to Congress on January 8, 1918
- 8. The World War I coalition, headed by Germany and Austria-Hungary and later including the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria, that opposed the Allied powers.
- 9. Rivalry between political parties based on strong disagreement about political principles.
- 10. Act A law passed by Congress in 1917 to create a national draft.
- 11. The glorification of military power and values.
- 12. A situation in a contest or conflict in which neither side can make a useful move.
- 13. A person who physically fights a war.
- 16. A form of warfare in which armies conduct attacks on each other from opposition positions in fortified trenches.
- 18. At the close of World War I, one of 16 Republican senators who opposed the Treaty of Versailles.
- 19. Created on July 28th, 1917 under an executive order issued by Woodrow Wilson, it is a government agency developed to assist in aiding the U.S. in the industrial production of materials for the American army.
- 20. A payment demanded of a nation defeated in war by a victorious nation
- 22. A type of cannon.
- 23. A weapon or piece of equipment used in war.
- 25. The World War I coalition, headed by France, Britain, and Russia and later including Portugal, Japan, and Italy, that opposed the Central powers.