Terms
A policy aggressive military build up.
Militarism
What event sparked the start of WWI?
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
Around 400,000 African Americans moving to the north to find jobs that were once filled by soldiers was known as what?
Great Migration
What are 2 examples of new technology being used in WWI
Tanks, Aircrafts, Trenches, Machine Guns, Poison Gas
What happened to the global economy after WWI?
Decreased
Strong loyalty and devotion to a nation.
Nationalism
What caused a regional conflict to become a world war?
Alliances
Which wartime agency controlled the production of goods, ordered construction of factories, and set prices?
War Industry Board (WIB)
How did ships travel at sea to protect themselves from German u-boats?
Convoy
“A period of general fear of communist scare, panic” this phrase describes what?
Red Scare
Gardens that were grown to reduce civilian food consumption.
Victory Gardens
Russia
France
Great Britain
Which act required men to register for a draft, allowing the US to build its military for the war?
Selective Service Act of 1917
What caused the Russians to withdraw from the war?
Bolshevik Revolution
Racial unrest after the war in the summer of 1919 was known as what?
Red Summer
What were American soldiers known as?
Doughboys
What were 3 countries in the triple alliance?
Italy
Austria-Hungary
Germany
This administration was responsible for limiting the shortening work weeks for factories not producing war materials and the creation of daylight savings time.
Fuel Administration
14 points
This strike included 75% of the workforce walking off of the job and eventually being fired.
Boston Police Strike
Government raised money through the sale of these.
Liberty Bonds or Victory Bonds
What were the 2 reasons that led the United States into WWI?
Zimmerman Telegram
Germany resuming its use a U-boat warfare
What act of congress made it illegal to speak negatively about the government and the US involvement in the war?
Sedition Act of 1918
What are two things the Treaty of Versailles forced the Germans to do?
Par War reparations - $33 billion
Disband its military
Admit blame for WWI
What caused the economy to crash after WWI?
Business raising prices on goods that were once price controlled