People
Alfred Thayer Mahan
General Weyler
Sanford Dole
William McKinley
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Jeanette Rankin
Gavrilo Princip
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Kaiser Franz Joseph
Kaiser Wilhelm II
King George V
Tsar Nicholas II
Vladimir Lenin
‘Black Jack’ John Pershing
Alvin York
David Lloyd-George
Georges Clemenceau
Vittorio Orlando

Events
The Spanish-American War
San Juan Hill
Presidential elections
The battles of the Somme,
Verdun, Tannenberg, Château-Thierry, Belleau Wood, Meuse-Argonne
The Communist Revolution
The Influenza Epidemic
The murder of the Armenians

Things and Concepts
Imperialism
Banana republics
USS Maine
Rough Riders
Hawaii
The Panama Canal
The Bull Moose Party
Federal Reserve Banks
Nationalism
Militarism
The balance of power
Alliances
The Allies
The Central Powers
How the War began
The Schlieffen Plan
Technology in the Great War
Trench warfare
Stalemate
No-man’s land
The Lusitania
The Zimmerman Telegram
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The American Expeditionary
Force
The ‘Lost Battalion’
Fourteen Points
The Treaty of Versailles
The League of Nations

Possible Essay Topics
Reasons for war with Spain
The Panama Canal
The role of assassination in
politics
Technology in the Great War
Reasons for war
Who declared war on whom and
why
Major treaties

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