War at home
This included changing the names of towns, removing books from libraries, and changing the names of a sandwich.
What was ANTI-IMMIGRANT HYSTERIA?
The 19th Amendment.
What is the Amendment granting US Women the right to vote or the right to US "Women's Suffrage"?
These are the nations that were called the "Allied Powers" in 1914.
What were Great Britain, France and Russia?
This is a heavier-than-air weapon used in trench warfare.
What is poison gas?
This group believed that war was evil and that the United States should set an example of peace to the world.
What are pacifists?
This government agency called on people to follow the “gospel of the clean plate" and for homeowners to plant “victory gardens”.
What was the Food Administration?
The large-scale movement of hundreds of thousands of Southern blacks to cities in the North to find work in factories during the war.
What was the Great Migration?
Daily Double
(You can wager whatever you have earned to possibly double your score, but you risk losing whatever you wager.)
This plan included ending future alliances to prevent another world war.
This weapon was created in response to the devastation of machine guns and barbed wire.
What were tanks?
They followed the war closely because they still had ties to the nations from which they had emigrated.
What were Naturalized citizens (Recent Immigrants)?
The nation’s first propaganda agency.
What was the COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC INFORMATION or CPI?
Through this profession, women served overseas in the military in WWI.
What is Nursing or the medical profession?
The attempt by Germany to create an alliance with Mexico.
What is the Zimmermann note?
This was a barren expanse of mud pockmarked with shell craters and filled with barbed wire. Periodically, the soldiers charged enemy lines, only to be mowed down by machine gun fire.
What was "no-man's land"?
A heavy guard of destroyers that would escort merchant ships back and forth across the Atlantic in groups.
What is the convoy system?
It was established in 1917 and reorganized in 1918. The board encouraged companies to use mass-production techniques to increase efficiency.
What is the War Industries Board or WIB?
This African-American leader believed that blacks should support the war effort in order to strengthen calls for racial justice.
Who was W.E.B. Dubois?
Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire.
What are the Central Powers?
This said that person could be fined and spend jail time for interfering with the war effort or for saying anything disloyal, profane, or abusive about the government or the war effort.
What are the Espionage and Sedition Acts?
This group in America criticized the war as a capitalist and imperialist struggle between Germany and England to control markets and colonies in China, Africa, and the Middle East.
What are Socialists?
This government agency said Americans should "work or fight." It also improved working conditions in factories.
What was the National War Labor Board?
The founder of the Boston Guardian believed that victims of racism should not support a racist government in WWI.
Who is William Monroe Trotter?
Wilson's "Moral Diplomacy" prevented the US from joining the allies in WWI until 1917 when this event happened.
What is the Russian revolution which caused Russia to pull out of WWI.
Beginning in May 1917. This act requires men to register with the government in order to be randomly selected for military service.
What is the Selective Service Act?
This was a direct response to Great Britain's Blockade of Germany.
What was Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare?