WWI
People
Vocabulary
the home front
Roaring 20s
100

the cause of Germany and France to go to war, beginning World War I

Germany invaded Belgium

100

president during WWI that promised we wouldn't be involved in the war

Woodrow Wilson

100

November 11

Armistice Day

100

Who took jobs in the factories to take the place of men sent for war?

women

100

cause of calling them the "Roaring 20s"

challenge to traditional and conservative values

200

the side of Great Britain, France, Russia, and the US.

Who were the Allies?

200

inventor and entrepreneur that created the assembly line to create the first cars

Henry Ford

200
women of the 20s that often drank, danced, and socialized at bars and speakeasies

flappers

200

established the draft

Selective Service Act

200

the amendment that banned the sale and manufacture of alcohol

18th amendment

300

America's Ace of Aces

Eddie Rickenbacker

300

mobster known for bootlegging in Chicago and would be put in jail for not paying taxes 

Al Capone

300

a common name for a soldier of WWI

doughboy

300

director of Food Administration during the war

Herbert Hoover

300

the secretive bars that sold alcohol during prohibition

speakeasy

400

Germany's promise to not break international law again

Sussex Pledge

400

war hero receiving Medal of Honor for WWI

Alvin C York

400

money paid for damage done during a war

reparations

400

Wilson's order to allow raids to find any anarchist, Communists, or Socialists

Palmer Raids

400

Mr. Scopes went on trial for teaching this in Tennessee

evolution

500

the area between the trenches on WWI battlefields

No Man's Land

500

Socialist that would speak out against WWI and the draft and be put in jail due to the Sedition Act

Eugene Debs

500

time period of black cultural progress and awakening

Harlem Renaissance

500

the growing of crops to supplement food supplies for World War I cause

Victory Gardens

500

event in 1918 that killed over 600,000 Americans

Flu Pandemic

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