STUDY GUIDE FOR WWI AND THE ROARING 20S

1. What are the 5 reasons that WWI was started?

2. What are the 3 main reasons that the United States joined the war in 1917?
3. What is propaganda? What was the purpose of it during the war?
4. Define the following words: nationalism, isolationism, militarism, alliance
5. Where did the fighting take place during WWI?
6. Who were the Central Powers?
7. Who were the Allied Powers?
8. Who was the President of the US during WWI?
9. Which side did the US fight on? (Allied or Central?)
10. Describe the new kinds of technology used in WWI.
11. What is no-mans land? Why was it dangerous?
12. Since men were away fighting in Europe, there were less people to produce food.
What was the effect of this?
13. Where did the women work during the war?
14. What day and year did the Central Powers surrender?
15. What is the Treaty of Versailles? Why was it important?
16. What was the goal of the newly created League of Nations?
17. What was the Lusitania?
18. What are rations?
19. What happened to the US economy during the 1920s?
20. What is a boom?
21. Who was the entrepreneur who made cars? In what way did mass production change
the economy?
22. What is a stock?
23. What views did Presidents Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover share?
24. What contributions to American life did the following people make?
Babe Ruth? Louis Armstrong? Langston Hughes? Henry Ford? Charles Lindbergh?
25. What is prohibition?