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The M.A.I.N. cause that is the Glorification of the military, which grew into competition between industrialized countries and fueled an arms race.
What is militarism?
Authorized a draft of young men for military service in Europe, ultimately bringing nearly 4.8 million into the armed forces during WW1.
What is the Selective Service Act?
This event in Russia in the fall of 1917 led to the Red Scare in the United States.
What is the Russian Revolution?
Wilson's goals for WW1, including the idea of "peace without victory"
How many landlocked countries are there in South America?
Two - Bolivia and Paraguay
Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy composed of this alliance.
What is the Triple Alliance?
Laws severely limiting civil liberties, including freedom of speech.
What are the Espionage and Sedition Acts?
Identify two of the many specific factors that led to the United States' direct involvement in WW1.
- Sinking of the Lusitania / Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
- Zimmerman Telegram
- Economic Ties with France and Britain
- Wishes to be a stakeholder during peace talks
US President after Woodrow Wilson who promised a "return to normalcy" after WW1.
Who is Warren G. Harding?
Which Mexican painter was most known for her self-portraits?
Frida Kahlo
Britain, France, and Russia composed of this alliance.
What is the Triple Entente?
Wave of widespread paranoia about suspected communists and radicals thought to be plotting revolution inside the United States.
What is the Red Scare?
When WW1 began, President Wilson cited this as one of the primary reasons for why he wanted to remain neutral.
Proposed world organization where countries could gather and peacefully resolve their quarrels.
What is the League of Nations?
In which year was the first successful human heart transplant performed - 1967, 1970, or 1977?
1967
What is the Assassination of Franz Ferdinand?
Unusually deadly epidemic, killing between 50-100 million people worldwide in about a year.
What is the 1918 Influenza Pandemic?
This was one of the leading factors for the German Surrender in 1918.
Many German soldiers were no longer willing to fight.
Women's efforts and sacrafices during WW1 led to the U.S. government support this reform.
What is universal suffrage?
Tempeh is made from which fermented bean?
Soybean
This contributing factor for the war involved the French occupation of the Italian colony of Algeria, German dissatisfaction with overseas territories, etc.
What is colonialism?
Headed by Bernard Baruch, this agency regulated all businesses engaged in the war effort.
What is the War Industries Board?
Identify two of the three empires that collapsed as a result of WW1.
Ottoman Empire
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Russian Empire
What is the United States?
Who sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Obama's second inauguration ceremony, in 2013
Beyonce.