The Big Snowball Fight: World War I
The event that sparked World War I was the assassination of this man along with his wife.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
Woodrow Wilson became president in this year, one year before the start of World War I.
1913
The Sedition Act made this illegal.
Speaking against the War or the U.S. government.
Government.
Howard Zinn's article about the U.S.'s entry into World War I is an example of this type of source.
Secondary.
This country was the last to enter the war.
The United States.
Woodrow Wilson won his second term as President using this slogan.
"He Kept Us Out of War."
Many critics of the Sedition Act, such as Eugene V. Debs and Charles Schenck, claimed it violated this.
The 1st Amendment Right to Free Speech.
This word describes the belief that workers should control the government and economy.
Socialism.
One of the reasons Woodrow Wilson won the presidency was that he passed a law making this unfortunate result of the growth of industry illegal.
Child Labor.
These countries made up what became known as the Central Powers.
Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire.
Woodrow Wilson claimed that this was the reason the United States was entering the war.
German submarines attacking and sinking U.S. trade ships.
Charles Schenck was sentenced to 10 years in prison under the Sedition Act for passing out pamphlets protesting this.
The draft.
The Espionage Act targeted individuals who spoke against the U.S. because they might be these.
Spies.
Eugene V. Debs and Charles Schenck agreeing that the Sedition Act was unfair is an example of this.
Weak Corroboration.
Britain entered the war because of Germany entering this country.
Belgium.
Historian Howard Zinn claims that Woodrow Wilson and the British Government both lied about this event, which helped lead to the U.S. joining World War I.
The sinking of the Lusitania.
At the same time the Sedition Act was passed, the Espionage Act was also passed to specifically target this group.
Immigrants.
Eugene V. Debs and Charles Schenck were both connected to this group.
Socialists.
The Espionage Act and the Chinese Exclusion Act had this in common.
Both negatively affected immigrants.
These SIX countries made up what became known as the Allies.
Serbia, Russia, France, Belgium, Britain, and the United States.
Woodrow Wilson was furious when he found out about this German document, which helped bring the U.S. into World War I.
The Zimmerman Telegram.
Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., during the trial of Charles Schenck, compared seditious language during World War I to this.
Shouting 'Fire!' in a crowded theater.
Historian Howard Zinn claimed that people who believed in this (and their foreign investments) were really to blame for the U.S. entering World War I.
Capitalism.
If Wong Ar Chong had made the comments in his 1903 letter about the unfairness of the U.S. government's treatment of Chinese Immigrants in 1918 instead, he could have been found guilty under this act.
The Espionage Act.