World War I & Texas

The two sides in WWI were called

• Trench Warfare

• Allied Powers and Central Powers

• Great Britian and Russia

• Imperialism

The event that sparked the beginning of WWI was the assassination of ____________________, the heir to Austria-Hungary.

• Archduke Franz Ferdinand

• Abraham Lincoln

• Martin Luther King

• Andrew Jackson

The submarine was a new German weapon, they were called __________________.

• Submarines

• U Boats

• Ski Boats

• V Boats

In WWI the new strategy of ______________ was an effective way to defend a position by fighting from deep within ditches.

• Trench Warfare

• Imperialism

• Ditches Warfare

• Allied Powers

Click all of the following that led the US to declare war on Germany

• Assassination of Arch Duke

• Invasion of Belgium

• Zimmerman Telegram

• the return of German unrestricted submarine war

How did World War I change the lives of women in Texas?

• Many women entered the workforce.

• Women finally gained the right to vote.

• Women served as pilots and tank drivers

• Many women were allowed into state universities.

During World War I, the Germans asked Mexico to join them in fighting the United States. In return for Mexico's participation, the victorious Germans would have given Mexico

• unrestricted access to the Panama Canal

• favorable trading rights to central Europe

• the western Caribbean islands

• the southwestern United States

This political cartoon shows one reason that...

• the U.S. got into World War I and fought against Germany

• Texas and California were sold back to the country of Spain

• Mexico was angry at Canada [with the U.S. stuck in the middle]

• Germany was able to eventually win World War I [with the help of the U.S.]

Following the Spanish American War, the United States became an imperialist nation. However, by the early years of World War I, the position of the U.S. was--

• domestic

• isolationist

• militaristic

• internationalist

How did national and international events affect the production of goods and services in Texas during and after World War I?

• World War I forced the US to prohibit the sale of alcoholic beverages

• Farmers formed agrarian organizations to negotiate better prices for their crops

• Life in cities became more modern after World War II

• Texas became a major provider of food, oil, and manufacturing to the world