American Isolationism
The 1915 German submarine attack that killed 128 Americans and outraged the U.S. public.
What was the sinking of the Lusitania?
The 1917 law that required men 21–30 (later 18–45) to register for military service.
What was the Selective Service Act?
The amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote in 1920.
What was the Nineteenth Amendment?
The treaty ending WWI that imposed reparations and war guilt on Germany.
What was the Treaty of Versailles?
The 1918–1919 pandemic that killed 675,000 Americans.
What was the Influenza (Spanish Flu) Pandemic?
The 1917 telegram urging Mexico to attack the U.S. in exchange for lost lands.
What was the Zimmermann Telegram?
he 1917 law letting the government sell “Liberty Bonds.”
What was the Liberty Loan Act?
The African American migration to Northern cities for industrial jobs during WWI.
What was the Great Migration?
Wilson’s list of goals for a peaceful world order announced in 1918.
What were the Fourteen Points?
The 1919 fear of communist uprisings and radicals in America.
What was the Red Scare?
Wilson’s foreign policy goal that U.S. intervention should occur only when morally necessary.
What was Moral Diplomacy?
The 1918 law used to silence critics of the war and restrict free speech.
What was the Sedition Act of 1918?
The group of women who served as bilingual military telephone operators in France.
Who were the Hello Girls?
The international organization created to preserve peace after WWI.
What was the League of Nations?
The violent summer of 1919 that saw major racial unrest in American cities.
What was the Red Summer?
The 1916 campaign slogan that helped Wilson win reelection.
What was “He kept us out of war”?
The government propaganda agency led by George Creel.
What was the Committee on Public Information?
The wartime amendment prohibiting alcohol manufacture and sale
What was the Eighteenth Amendment?
The U.S. commander of the American Expeditionary Force.
Who was General John “Blackjack” Pershing?
Wilson’s Republican successor who won the 1920 election on a “return to normalcy.”
Who was Warren G. Harding?
Germany’s 1916 promise to stop sinking passenger ships without warning?
What was the Sussex Pledge
The 1917 law allowing the government to control production and prices of food and fuel.
What was the Lever Food and Fuel Control Act?
The federal agency that promised to protect workers’ rights in exchange for a “no-strike” pledge.
What was the National Labor War Board?
The U.S. senator who led opposition to the treaty with his “14 reservations.”
Who was Henry Cabot Lodge?
The series of 1919 bombings and raids against suspected radicals.
What were the Palmer Raids?