America in WWI

Assassinated by a Serb national in Sarajevo.

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Alvin York

• Kaiser Wilhelm II

• Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Allowed national government to draft men to serve in war.

• Treaty of Versailles

• Selective Service

• Draft Law of 1916

• Fourteen Points

Policy of not taking sides in the conflict in Europe.

• Neutrality

• Alliance

• American Expeditionary Force

• Armistice

German submarines

• U-boat

• Underschimvin Boot

• Cruiser

• Battleship

New and strange method of fighting.

• guerrilla tactics

• trench warfare

• nuclear arms

• column marches

Germany promised not to sink any more ocean liners without prior warning or providing help to passengers.

• Superior Pledge

• Reparations

• Sussex Pledge

• Lusitania Pledge

American fighting force in WWI led by John J. Pershing.

• American Expeditionary Force

• Rough Riders

• 21st Cavalry

• 101st Airborne

Secret message from German foreign Minister to Mexico, promising to return lost territories to Mexico in exchange for alliance.

• DeLome Letter

• Zimmerman Telegram

• Wilhelm Message

• Franz Communication

Made it a crime to spy on American involvement in European conflict.

• Espionage Act of 1917

• Schenck v. US

• Sussex Pledge

• Anti-spying Law of 1910

Attempted to remain neutral, but eventually he was forced to ask Congress for a declaration of war on Europe.

• Theodore Roosevelt

• William Howard Taft

• Woodrow Wilson

• Warren G. Harding