Life on the Homefront
The legacy of World War One
WWI
War Breaks Out
America joins the Front
100
President Wilson created a government agency to produce movies, posters,and other materials as _______ to shape public opinion in support of the war.
What is Propaganda
100
This international organization was formed afte the war to settle future disputes peacefully.
What is the League of Nations?
100
The competition among Germany, Britain, and France for these led to tensions that eventually led to WWI.
What is Colonies?
100
In the decades before WWI, European leaders built up their nation's armies because of their belief in _________ convinced them that a nation needed a large military.
What is militarism
100
This was a system to use warships to escort groups of merchant ships across the Atlantic.
What is the Convoy System?
200
To help pay for the war, the American people made loans to the government by purchasing these.
What were War Bonds?
200
Thes were President Wilson's goals for the peace treaty to end WWI.
What is the Fourteen Points?
200
This sinking of this ship by the Germans angered Americans.
What is the Lusitania?
200
The nations of central Europe-Germany and Austria-Hungary-joined with Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire in an alliance known as the ____________.
What is the Central Powers?
200
He was the commander of American troops in Europe in WWI.
Who is John J. Pershing?
300
Hoping to silence protesters, Congress passed the Espionage Act and the ___________ Act, which made it a crime to criticize the war.
What is Sedition
300
As a result of this treaty, Germany was stripped of its colonies, and ordered to pay reparations.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
300
This battle was the turning point of the war.
What is the Second Battle of Marne?
300
Opposing Germany and its allies were a group of nations led by Britain, Russia and France, who were known as the__________.
What is the Allied Powers?
300
This was the name given to the American army in Europe during WWI.
What is the AEF-American Expeditionary Force
400
This Supreme Court justice wrote what became a famous legal opinion that limited free speech.
Who was Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
400
This was the fear of a communist takeover of the US.
What is the Red Scare?
400
The withdrawal of this country meant that germany no longer had to fight the Allies on two fronts.
What is Russia?
400
Germany used a type of submarine, which they called a __________, to sink ships bound for Britain and France with supplies.
What is a U-boat?
400
This is an agreement to end all fighting in a war.
What is an armistice?
500
As factory workers went off to war, African Americans were drawn to Northern cities by job opportunities in a movement known as the ______________.
What is the Great Migration?
500
These were the roundup and arrest of suspected communists in the US.
What is the Palmer Raids?
500
WWI provided jobs for people fleeing a revolution in this country.
What is Mexico?
500
In this, Germany promised to return Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona to Mexico if Mexico joined Germany in a war against the US.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
500
This is the battle that American troops helped the Allies win, and which became the turning point in the war.
What is the Second battle of the Marne?
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