Propaganda
What changed the way people got information about global events?
propaganda
What percentage of women made up the workforce by 1917?
30%
Name one significant new or improved weapon
rapid-fire machine gun or long-range artillery gun
What is the Spanish Flu sometimes called?
"forgotten pandemic"
What is the Bolshevik Revolution sometimes referred to?
October Revolution
Why were posters made?
to make war sound glorious
Women's participation in the war effort led to what for them?
a wave of global suffrage
Who started using poisonous gas first?
Germany
The Spanish Flu might have originated where?
France
How many Russian Revolutions were there?
Two
True or False: Everything printed on propaganda were true. Why?
False. Most of the time they just wanted to convince people to help out.
What type of roles expanded?
volunteer
What advancement in technology led to opposing forces using tanks, airplanes, and submarines against each other.
gasoline-powered engine
More people died from the Spanish Flu than from what other event around that time?
World War I
What day did Tsar Nicholas II abdicate?
March 15th
True or False: Propaganda was legal in all countries.
False. In some countries it was illegal without the governments consent.
The main role of women in World War I was what?
employment in munitions factories, farming, and other roles to replace men drafted for the army
What are zeppelins?
large gas-filled balloons
List three parts of the world where the Spanish Flu might have originated.
Austria, China, East Asia
The Romanovs were assassinated in what year?
1918
What did US propaganda convince young kids to tell their parents? How?
They used brightly colored posters to convince them to tell their parents to do something.
What were the working conditions like?
unpleasant, dangerous, long hours, exhausting
What did the Allies organize to defend themselves against submarines? What are they?
Convoys. They are groups of merchant ships protected by warships.
Why did the Spanish Flu spread so rapidly across the world?
Infected soldiers lived close together and traveled frequently
George Orwell’s Animal Farm is a -blank- of the Russian Revolution
allegory