Neutrality
Leader of the communist revolution in Russia?
Vladimir Lenin
The assassination of this person led to the start of WWI.
Francis Ferdinand
The sinking of this ship draws America closer to joining WWI?
Lusitania
The US Supreme Court Case that set the precedent of "Clear and Present Danger".
Schenck v. the United States
What are two major reasons America remained neutral at the start of WWI?
Answers vary
In this note, the Germans tried to get Mexico to attack the U.S.
The Zimmerman Telegraph
What are two major effects that WWI had on the Women's Rights Movement?
Increased Opportunities and Women's Sufferage
What is the official date that WWI ended?
November 11, 1918
What are the MAIN causes of WW1?
Militarism, Alliance, Imperialism, Nationalism
How many Americans died on the Lusitania?
128
What was the council of National Defense?
An organization formed to oversee war effort and government agencies
What caused Wilson to miss most of the Paris Peace Conference meeting?
1918 Flu Pandemic
What was the event called were more than 500,000 African Americans moved from the south to northern cities?
Great Migration
What was President Wilson's campaign slogan when he ran for re-election in 1916?
"He Kept us out of War"
What reason does Wilson give congress for America to join the war effort?
it was the duty of the United States to “make the world safe for democracy.”
To popularize the war the US established this government agency
Committee on Public Information (CPI)
What are the three factions in the US Senate called that formed over the Treaty of Versailles?
Irreconcilables, Reservationists, Wilson Democrats
What were the Espionage Act and Sedition Act?
crime to interfere with the draft and allowed postmaster general to bar ‘treasonous’ materials from the mail
crime to speak or publish anything ‘disloyal, profane . . . Or abusive’ about the government