Long-term causes for US Entry
non-participation in a dispute or war.
What is neutrality?
A system to conscript (draft) men into the military. All men between 21 and 30 registered for possible induction into the military.
What is the Selective Service Act?
Germany was disarmed and stripped of its colonies in Asia and Africa, forced to admit guilt, and pay huge reparations to Great Britain and France.
Signers joined an international peacekeeping organization that called on each member nation to stand read to protect the independence and territorial integrity of other nations.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
The German foreign minister during WWI.
Who is Arthur Zimmermann?
Militarism, nationalism, imperialism, and a combination of public and secret alliances.
What were the underlying causes of WWI?
Replaced men in industrial jobs during the war.
What is the role of women in the war?
Recognition of freedom of the seas
An end to the practice of making secret treaties
reduction of national armaments
adjust colonial claims to land, giving more weight to colonized peoples
self-determination for various nationalities
establish an association of nations to provide collective security and to ensure peace
What is Wilson's Fourteen Points?
A secret offer made by Germany to Mexico that was made public after British intelligence intercepted it?
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
Mining the North Sean and seizing ships-- including U.S. ships
What is the British naval blockade?
Films, posters, pamphlets, created to urge Americans to watch out for German spies and to "do your bit" for the war.
What is WWI propaganda?
The Senate leader who raised objections to the League of Nations and collective security.
Who is Henry Cabot Lodge?
Russian revolutionaries overthrew the czar's government and proclaimed it a republic.
What is the Russian Revolution?
A new naval weapon that Germany used to counteract the British blockade to create a blockade of its own.
What is the U-boat or submarine?
movement of over 300,000 African American from the rural south into Northern cities between 1914 and 1920
What is the Great Migration?
The trial of Italian anarchists Sacco & Vanzetti and anti-communist hysteria after WWI.
What is the first red scare?
In March of 1917, Germany sank a few unarmed U.S. ships.
What is German renewal of unrestricted submarine warfare?
Between 1914 and 1917, U.S. trade with the Allies quadrupled while its trade with Germany dwindled.
What is economic and financial interests the U.S had in supporting the allies?
The argument Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes gave concluding that the right to free speech could be limited in the Schenck v. United States Supreme Court case.
What is "clear and present danger?"
Racial riots in Northern cities as a result of the Great Migration where African Americans defended themselves against white violence.
What is the Red Summer?
"The world must be made safe for democracy."
What is Wilson's reasons for going to War?