War Begins in Europe
An assassin killed a member of Austria's royal family.
What is the reason Austria-Hungary declared was on Serbia and started World War I?
Created to oversee the state's war effort.
What is the Commission of Public Safety?
Hundreds of young men from towns such as Ada, Halstad, Twin Valley and Borup volunteered to join the fight.
What is Norman County soldiers?
The state's biggest celebration took place in downtown Minneapolis.
What is the celebrating the end of World War I?
Most Americans and most Minnesotans wanted the United States to stay out of the issues in Europe.
What is the reason the United States did not join the war?
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria
What is the Central Powers?
The U.S. government launched a communication program to persuade Americans to support the war effort.
What is propaganda - posters, parades, songs and other methods?
Other ways that people at home in Norman County contributed to the war effort.
What is raised money for the Red Cross, purchased war bonds, knit socks and sweaters for the troops, and help harvested crops?
This was the winning side of the war.
What is the Allies?
Trenches, mustard gas, submarines, machine guns and airplanes.
What are the new weapons used in World War I?
Great Britain, France, Russia and Italy....eventually the United States
What is the Allies?
The government encouraged people to show their patriotism by doing this.
What is buying war bonds?
One of the first Norman County men to volunteer who boarded a ship to Europe in the fall of 1918 as a private in the US Marines.
Who is William Tompkins?
On the eleventh hour, on the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918.
What is the war ended or Armistice Day?
One of Minnesota's most distinguished surgeons was fired because of a letter written at a public meeting in 1917.
Who is Louis A. Fritsche,the mayor of New Ulm?
German submarines started attacking American ships.
German Americans became target of Commission of Public Safety pressuring.
What is German schools were forced to stop teaching German, censored or limited the German newspapers and discouraged German music?
Men and women from Norman County served as soldiers, marines, aviators, sailors and military nurses during the war, sixty-three of them died in combat or from illness.
What is the more than 800 from Norman County?
Belief held by many people during and after the war in regards to the Central Powers being defeated.
What is future wars could be avoided?
A labor union whose members included iron miners and lumberjacks that was questioned about their patriotism.
What is the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)?
From St. Cloud, he was one of four Minnesota congressmen who voted against the United States entering the war.
Who is Harold Knutson?
Immigrants from many different countries discovered their loyalty was being questioned.
What is all Minnesotans who were not American citizens needed to register with the state and explain why they had not become citizens?
The name that President Wilson called World War I.
What is the war to end all wars?
Describe the area between the trenches in the war, and what is it called.
What is No Man's Land, and an area between the the trenches that is surrounded by barbed wire, area where many bombs were dropped?
A federal law created after September 11, 2001, that gave the government more power to do things it believed might prevent future attacks and protect national security.
What is the Patriot Act?