Causes of WWI and WWII
Important Documents
Minorities
Miscellaneous Facts
Important Figures
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April 2nd, 1917
What is the date Woodrow Wilson declared war on Germany?
100
Germany sent a telegraph attempting to convince Mexico to have their troops mass U.S. borders, in return Mexico would receive the U.S. Mexican cession back(AZ, NV, NM, CA).
What is Zimmermann Note?
100
First woman in United States Congress.
What is Jeannette Rankin?
100
Roosevelt selected him as his successor as president but was later not impressed.
What is Taft?
100
Kept the U.S. from entering war.
What is Woodrow Wilson?
200
The U.S. declared themselves this during the beginning of WWI, practicing isolationism.
What is neutrality?
200
Woodrow Wilson's part of the Treaty of Versailles that promoted world peace after WWI. He went on a tour throughout the U.S. and went to Paris to promote it.
What is 14 Points?
200
Gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
200
One of the richest men in the United States in the Reconstruction Era. He helped the U.S. pay for things they could not afford.
What is J.P. Morgan?
200
Created the Atlanta Compromise and wanted blacks to prosper with some help.
What is Booker T. Washington?
300
The date bringing the U.S. into WWII, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
What is December 7th, 1941.
300
Newspapers exaggerating stories to make things seem different than they really are. This can be dangerous and cause warfare.
What is yellow journalism?
300
U.S. could suspend Chinese immigration to America.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
300
Roosevelt's line of ships that toured the world for other countries to see.
What is Great White Fleet?
300
Conservationist who greatly increased the area of protected wild land in the U.S.
What is Theodore Roosevelt?
400
German U-boats sinking British and American ships after already saying they would no longer do this without authorization.
What is the reason Woodrow Wilson declared war on Germany?
400
Stated that Germany must pay reparations and agree to the fact that WWI was their fault. It was a peace treaty and officially ended WWI.
What is Treaty of Versailles?
400
Term used to describe racial intolerance and the practice of segregation.
What is Jim Crow?
400
Era after the Civil War where big business dominated the country. Factories where everywhere and everything was becoming industrialized.
What is the Reconstruction Era?
400
Doubled the size of our Army during his presidency.
What is President Taft?
500
The U.S. stepped into WWI after Germany attempted to get Mexican troops to mass the U.S. border with this telegraph.
What is Zimmermann Note?
500
The document where there was a possibility of U.S. troops being under foreign control, which the U.S. did not stand for.
What is Article X?
500
During WWI, women stepped up and worked the men's jobs here, later earning them the 19th Amendment.
What is a factory?
500
A reform movement in favor of the middle class during a time of big business and industrialization.
What is progressivism?
500
Wrote a book saying the Navy is important and needs to be strong. It is the key to success in a country.
What is Alfred Mahan?
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