Social Studies Quiz

Warmonger

Person who tries to stir up war.

Zimmermann telegram

Instructed the minister to urge Mexico to attack the United States if the United States declared war on Germany.

Czars

Russian Emperors.

Selective Service Act

Required all men from ages 21 to 30 to register for the military draft.

Draft

A law requiring people of a certain age to serve in the military.

Illiterate

Unable to read or write.

Bureaucracy

A system of managing government through departments run by appointed officials.

Liberty Bonds

Bonds sold by the United States government to raise money for World War I.

Pacifists

People who refuse to fight in any war because they believe that war is evil.

Socialist

Believes that the people as a whole rather than private individuals should own all property and share the profits from all businesses.

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Ended Russia's participation in the war.

American Expeditionary Force(AEF)

American troops reaching France in record numbers. More than one million American troops arrived.

John J. Pershing

Commanded the AEF and led American troops into Mexico to hunt for Mexican rebel leader "Pancho" Villa.

Harlem Hellfighters

The first American unit attached to the French Army was the 369th United States Infantry.

Battle of Belleau Wood

American troops plunged into their first major battle in Belleau Wood outside Paris.

Battle of the Argonne Forest.

The final allied offensive where the Americans broke through the German defense and won the battle.

Armistic

An agreement to stop fighting.

Abdicate

Give up power.

Influenza

Epidemics spread around the globe.

Epidemic

The rapid spread of a contagious disease among large numbers of people.