U.S. in the War
What year did the United States enter World War 1?
1917
What year did WW1 start?
1914
Why was it called the roaring 20s?
Because it was a time of wealth and growth for the United States
What did the women do during WW1?
Worked jobs because the men were off at war.
How much was Germany supposed to pay for the war?
33 billion dollars
What was a challenge the U.S. faced when entering the war?
New weapons (gives examples)
What where the names of the two sides that were at war?
(5 bonus points for each country named on the correct side)
The allied powers and the central powers
Central: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire
Allied: Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Japan and the United States
Name 3 new technologies that were popular in the 1920s.
Radios, washing machines, refrigerator, cars, telephone
What year did women get the right to vote?
1919
What is the name of the document that ended WW1?
The Treaty of Versailles
What did the United States do before it entered the war?
They sent supplies to the countries at war.
What new weapons were introduced during WW1? (name 2)
Machine guns, airplanes, poisonous gas, tanks
What music was popular during this time?
Jazz
What was one thing women were fighting to have? In terms of equality?
Equal pay, the right to vote.
Why was the Harlem Renaissance called that?
It is named after a part of New York city called Harlem where many African Americans lived in segregation.
How was the economy of the U.S. affected during the war?
It increased because they were selling supplies to other countries.
What was the new type of warfare used to fight? (not chemical warfare)
Trench warfare
Why did Jazz become so popular?
Radios allowed for music to come into the homes of families.
Working in factories, nurse in the army, phone operators.
Name the poet, writer, and leader in the Harlem Renaissance some scholars in this room read about.
Langston Hughes
What were 2 reasons the U.S. entered the war?
The sinking of the Lusitania, the Zimmerman telegraph, unrestricted submarine warfare.
Why did WW1 start? (needs all answers to be correct)
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism.
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
What is the fancy term for the women's rights movement?
Name one or two women who helped with the women's rights movement.
Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul, Ida B. Wells
Name 3 countries that were created by the Treaty of Versailles.
Austria, Yugoslavia, Lithuania, Latvia, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Poland, Hungary, and Finland