Selling the war
This U.S. president helped persuade Americans to support World War I.
Who is Woodrow Wilson ?
Many immigrants tried to prove loyalty to America by doing this during the war.
What is serving in the military?
Before WWI, African Americans lived under this system separating them from white Americans.
What is segregation?
Many women helped the war effort by working in this medical profession.
What are nurses?
This ceasefire ended the fighting of World War I on November 11, 1918.
What is the Armistice?
This government agency spread propaganda and information to get Americans to support the war.
What is the Committee on Public Information ?
This idea pushed immigrants to abandon their old culture and become fully American.
What is 100% Americanism?
This movement involved African Americans moving from the South to northern cities for jobs.
What is the Great Migration?
Some women worked as these operators and had to speak French fluently.
What are telephone operators?
Many returning soldiers suffered from this condition, then called “shell shock.”
What is PTSD?
These volunteers traveled around the country giving short speeches to rally support for the war.
Who were the Four Minute Men ?
This group of immigrants faced heavy discrimination because the U.S. was fighting their homeland.
Who were German immigrants?
This famous African American military unit was also known as the Harlem Hellfighters.
What is the 369th Regiment?
Thousands of women helped overseas by doing this job with vehicles near the front.
What is driving ambulances?
This deadly global disease spread quickly because soldiers traveled around the world.
What is the Spanish flu?
These patriotic investments encouraged Americans to help fund the war effort.
What are Liberty Bonds?
Groups such as these two European immigrant communities used the war to prove their loyalty to America.
Who are Irish and Italian immigrants?
Many Black soldiers were forced to work doing this instead of fighting.
What is building camps or doing labor?
Black women were often denied these two opportunities in the war effort.
What are nursing and telephone operator jobs?
The influenza pandemic happened in this year during the end of World War I.
What is 1918?
Propaganda often portrayed this group as monsters or “Huns” to influence public opinion.
Who were the Germans?
Some people who refused to support the war faced this punishment during WWI.
What is imprisonment?
After returning home from the war, many African American soldiers experienced this increase in prejudice
What is racism and discrimination?
This amendment gave women the right to vote shortly after World War I.
What is the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution?
This term describes writers and artists who felt disillusioned after the war.
What is the Lost Generation?