9 US History Student Name:_____________ Unit 9: World War One Period: ___________________ Time Period: 1914-1920 Unit Questions (Prepare to answer these questions for unit exam) 1. What were the causes of World War One? 2. Why did the USA get involved in the war? 3. How did American assistance help tip the balance in the war? 4. How did the war effect life at home in the USA? 5. How did World War One end? 6. What were the effects of the war? Thought Jots _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________
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9 US History Student Name:_____________
Unit 9: World War One Period: ___________________
Time Period: 1914-1920
Unit Questions
(Prepare to answer these questions for unit exam)
1. What were the causes of World War One?
2. Why did the USA get involved in the war?
3. How did American assistance help tip the balance in the war?
4. How did the war effect life at home in the USA?
Name _______________________________ World War I Begins Chapter 19 Section 1 pages 578-586 1. What are the four long-term causes of World War I? Explain each
B. The First Battle of Somme lasted from July to __________________ of 1916.
Total casualties?_________________ But only _________________ of ground changed sides.
8. Where ( the country/ies) was no man’s land? ___________________________________
9. What is a front? (not the weather one!)__________________________________________ Where were the other fronts?
A. _______________________ B. _____________________C. ___________________
9. Why did Americans want to stay neutral? ____________________________________ 10. Why did Americans have more sympathy for the Allies than the Germans?
1. Which three nations became known as the Triple Entente?
2. Which three nations became known as the Triple Alliance?
3. What did the Triple Entente become known as after the war started? List all nations on the map that joined as the war progressed.
4. What did the Triple Alliance become known as after the war started? List all nations on the map that joined as the war progressed.
5. What nation switched sides after the war started?
6. Which nations remained neutral?
7. What are the four main reasons or ideals that caused war to break out? (note these are not events such as submarine warfare, etc.)
Name _______________________________ American Power Tips the Balance Chapter 19 Section 2 pages 587-593 1. The U.S. needed to raise an army. Why were many members of Congress opposed to a draft? ______________________________________________________________________________
How was the WWI draft different from the Civil War draft? _____________________________
What were the average soldier’s characteristics? ______________________________________
11. The war ends at a very memorable time. It was at:
the_______________, on the __________________, in the _________________ of ________
The Facts:
12. Nickname of the American soldiers ____________________________________
13. U.S. commander of the American forces _________________________________
14. The number of men registered for the draft ________________________________
15. The number of men actually drafted__________________________________
16. The number of women who served ______________________________
17. Uniqueness of the 369th Infantry Regiment ________________________ and
__________________________________________(not the medal thing)
18. What is the message of this poster?
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Name _______________________________ The War at Home Chapter 19 Section 3 pages 594-601 1. Why was it necessary to mobilize the entire economy? _________________________________________________________
What was the week like that Hoover declared? ________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ Identify these changes to American life:
gospel of the clean plate__________________________________________________________
meatless days __________________________________________________________________
sweetless days _________________________________________________________________
wheatless days _________________________________________________________________
7. What were the two parts of the selling the war to the public? A. _______________________
and B._______________________________________
8. What was the cost of World War I to the United States? ______________________________
How did the U.S. finance the war? _________________________________________________
9. Committee on Public Information: What was its goal? _____________________________
14. What crisis hit the home front in 1918? __________________________________________
How many Americans died? ______________________________________________________ Compare that to the number of Americans killed in World War I: 116,516, which includes 53,402 battle deaths and 63,114 non-combat deaths.
World wide, how many people died for the influenza? _________________________________ Compare that to the number killed in World War I: 9.7 million military personnel and about 6.8 million civilians.
The heaviest loss of life for a single day occurred on July 1, 1916, during the Battle of the Somme, when the British Army suffered 57,470 casualties. 15. What is are liberty measles? __________________________________________
11. Wilson proposed that we enter the war to “make the world safe for democracy.” Did the Americans succeed? Explain your answer. ___________________________________________________________________________