Causes and Entry
THESE are the four MAIN causes of World War 1.
What is Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism?
Americans supported the war effort by buying these government bonds to help fund the war.
What are Liberty Bonds?
This migration saw over a million African Americans move from the South to Northern cities for wartime factory jobs.
What is the Great Migration?
Soldiers fought from these long, fortified ditches that created deadly stalemates on the Western Front.
What are trenches?
Wilson's plan for postwar peace included these many points.
What are 14 (Fourteen) Points?
Americans planted these at home to grow their own food and help conserve resources for the war effort.
What are victory gardens?
The assassination of THIS Archduke in June 1914 sparked the chain reaction leading to WWI.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
This government agency created propaganda to build support for the war, using the slogan 'Make the world safe for democracy.'
What is the Committee on Public Information (CPI)?
These violent events erupted in Northern cities in 1919 as African Americans competed with whites for jobs and housing after the Great Migration.
What are race riots?
This new weapon could fire hundreds of rounds per minute and made charging across open ground nearly impossible.
What is the machine gun?
Wilson hoped this international organization would maintain world peace by having member nations protect each other from aggression.
What is the League of Nations?
These were the original Big 3 Central and Big 3 Allied powers in WW1.
Who are:
Central Powers - Germany, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Ottoman Empire
Allied Powers - Great Britain, France, Russia
This British passenger ship was sunk by a German U-boat in 1915, killing 128 Americans and enraging the public.
What is the Lusitania?
These two acts made it illegal to criticize the government, the war, or interfere with the draft.
What are the Espionage and Sedition Acts?
This famous all-Black regiment was called the 'Harlem Hellfighters' and spent more time on the front lines than any other American unit.
What is the 369th Infantry Regiment?
These five new technologies transformed warfare during WWI: machine guns, heavy artillery, tanks, airplanes, and THIS deadly chemical weapon.
What is poison gas?
This 1919 treaty officially ended WWI and imposed harsh terms on Germany, including war reparations and military reductions.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This movement pushed for America to build up its military and get ready to help the Allies before officially entering WWI.
What is the Preparedness Movement?
This secret German telegram proposed an alliance with Mexico against the United States, offering them lost American territory.
What is the Zimmerman Note?
This socialist leader was arrested and sentenced to 10 years in prison for speaking out against the war in Canton, Ohio.
Who is Eugene Debs?
This Black officer led the Harlem Hellfighters and helped bring jazz music to France.
Who is James Reese Europe?
This 1916 battle was one of the bloodiest in history, with over 1 million casualties and only 7 miles of ground gained.
What is the Battle of the Somme?
This Republican senator led the opposition to the League of Nations, fearing it would entangle America in foreign conflicts.
Who is Henry Cabot Lodge?
This promise made by Germany to stop attacking merchant ships was later broken, increasing tensions with America.
What is the Sussex Pledge?
Germany's resumption of this type of warfare, attacking ships without warning, was the most direct cause of America entering WWI.
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
In this 1919 Supreme Court case, the Court ruled that freedom of speech could be limited during wartime using the 'clear and present danger' doctrine.
What is Schenck v. United States (1919)?
In his 1919 essay, this civil rights leader wrote 'We return from fighting. We return fighting,' demanding equality for Black veterans.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
This American general led the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) in Europe during WWI.
Who is General John Pershing?
This article of the League's covenant required members to defend other nations under attack, which many senators feared would violate American sovereignty.
What is Article X (Article 10)?
This meeting in France brought together the 'Big Four' Allied Powers to write the peace treaty after WWI.
What is the Paris Peace Conference?