Road to War
The European conflict that the United States eventually joined.
What is WWI?
Government-issued loans citizens bought to help fund the war.
What are War Bonds?
The type of jobs many women took while men were overseas.
What are Factory/Industrial Jobs?
This President during WWI proposed a plan to prevent future conflicts and achieve world peace.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
The peace agreement that officially ended the war.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Germany’s naval strategy that threatened American trade and travel.
What is Unrestricted Submarine Warfare?
The policy that made military service not optional in WWI.
What is the Selective Service Act/The Draft?
The political right that women gained soon after the war.
What is the Right to Vote?
The President's plan for peace following WWI contained this main points.
What is 14?
This country was forced to take full responsibility for the war.
What is Germany?
The sinking of this passenger ship increased American anger toward Germany.
What is the Lusitania?
Being one of these war criticizers could have landed you in prison.
What is a Conscientious Objector?
This group of people moved in large numbers to the North in order to fill jobs during the war and escape the South.
Who are African Americans?
The international organization Wilson wanted the US to join.
What is the League of Nations?
One way the treaty weakened Germany.
What is Limited Military and Loss of Territory?
This secret German proposal pushed the U.S. closer to war.
What is The Zimmermann Telegram?
Laws that limited criticism of the government during wartime.
What are the Espionage and Sedition Acts?
These organizations of workers demanded higher wages and engaged in numerous strikes during the industrial push of WWI.
What are Unions?
The main reason the US refused to ratify the Treaty of Versailles.
What is a desire to stay out of the League of Nations? (Did not want to be drawn into another war)
The amount Germany was required to pay in reparations to the Allies.
What is $33 Billion?
The main reason the U.S. government said it was entering the war.
What is to Protect Americans and American Interests?
The federal group that used posters, speeches, and films to influence public opinion.
What is the Committee on Public Information?
The Government took control of this in order to prepare the US for War.
What is the Economy/Factories?
The idea that the U.S. should focus on its own interests rather than international enforcement of peace.
What is Nationalism or Isolationism?
The major criticism historians have about the treaty - the thing that made it ineffective at creating peace.
What is creating resentment and instability in Germany?