8 Ch8: World War I

Eddie Rickenbacker was a famous race car driver who became a submarine captain.

• t

• f

Soldiers from Britain, France, and Germany fought at the Battle of the Marne

• t

• f

When World War I began, President Wilson and most Americans supported U.S. neutrality.

• t

• f

American soldiers were called “doughboys” because they were better paid than the soldiers of the Central Powers.

• t

• f

A shortage of Allied soldiers forced the drafting of women toward the end of World War I.

• t

• f

encouraged by the Food Administration

• victory garden

• war bonds

• submarines

• Treaty of Versailles

raised money to help pay off the cost of World War I

• war bonds

• victory garden

• Treaty of Versailles

• U-boats

German U-boats

• submarines

• battle ships

• airplanes

• blimps

1916 Republican presidential candidate

• Charles Evans Hughes

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Eleanor Roosevelt

• John F. Kennedy

dealt harshly with Germany

• Treaty of Versailles

• Treaty of Paris

• Treaty of Germany

• Treaty of Allies