Mt. Carmel High School

Answer the following questions using complete sentences.

1. What are the four main causes of World War I? Explain each cause.
2. What event triggered the start of World War I?
3. How did the United States overcome the threat of German U-Boats?
4. What is the relationship between conscription and the Selective Service Act of 1917?
5. Describe the four main reasons the United States entered World War I.
6. Who was Alvin York and why did he become famous?
7. Why did some Americans approve of U.S. involvement in the League of Nations?
8. Why did some Americans oppose U.S. involvement in the League of Nations?
9. What were the two main reasons that Germany surrendered to end World War I?
10. Which Allied nation suffered the greatest number of casualties? Which Allied nation suffered the least number of casualties?
11. Which Central Powers nation suffered the greatest number of casualties? Which Central Powers nation suffered the least number of casualties?
12. What countries and leaders made up the Big Four?
13. What are the six new weapons used in World War I? How was each weapon used?
14. What was the Schlieffen Plan? How successful was it?
15. How did women contribute to the United States’ victory in World War I?

If the statement is True, write “true” on the line. If it is false, change the underlined word or words to make it true.

16. Under the National War Labor Board the nation’s main wartime regulatory body, industrial      production in the United States increased by about 20 percent.

17. Alvin York, the head of the War Industries Board, was given the nickname “ Dr. Facts” because he was able to quickly assemble, coordinate, and distribute information about was materials, production techniques, and the like.

18. George Creel was a muckraking journalist who led the Committee on Public Information, the nation’s first propaganda agency.

19. Under the immigration quota system, a person could be fined and/or imprisoned for interfering with the draft, interfering with the sale of government bonds, or saying anything critical about the government or the war effort.

20. The Great Migration was a large-scale movement of hundreds of thousands of Southern African Americans to Western Farms.