Unit 2 (Video Guide) WWI

The labor shortage led Northern employers to look to the ____________ labor pool in the South.

African Americans

World War I started in June 1941 with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand of _________ __________.

Austria-Hungary

Everyone thought the war would be over by __________________.

Christmas

Germany and Austria-Hungary fought against Russia, France, and __________________.

England

Americans were exposed to the war in the _______________ ________________.

Movie House

At the beginning of the war, the U.S. was officially _________________.

Neutral

The war broke some men. The condition was called ___________ _____________.

Shell Shock

Former President ___________ ____________ supported American volunteers who trained for WWI.

Teddy Roosevelt

True or False: By early 1915, the war was good for America economically.

True

Woodrow Wilson hoped World War I was the "the war to end ______ _______"

all wars

The British and French governments were interested in _________________.

revenge

The _____________ ________________ was excluded from the talks.

soviet union

The Battle of the Somme lasted 6 months at a cost of _____ million men and the Allies had moved a grand total of _______ miles.

1, 5

In a last desperate offensive, the Germans got to within ______ miles of Paris

30

The trench system on the Western Front would stretch for some _______ miles.

300

__________ countries were eventually represented in World War I.

60

In all, ________ million men had died.

9

True or False: The American soldiers were well prepared for war

False

True or False: The Treaty of Versailles punished Germany.

False

True or False: The weapons of World War I were no more ferocious than weapons in earlier wars.

False

True or False: The young men called to fight in 1914 were enthusiastic.

True

With Lenin's Communist victory in 1917, Russia ________________ from the war

Withdrew

President Wilson went to the Paris Peace Conference with his ____________ Points program.

fourteen

What were 3 new weapons that contributed to the stalemate?

machine guns, poison gas, tanks

Life in the trenches was: pleasant or miserable.

miserable

Movies were the proving ground for the new art form called _________________.

propaganda