Reforms: Vocabulary
What is a reform?
A change to create a better lifestyle.
Where were most people working in?
Factories
The assassination of ___________ led to war between Serbia and Austria-Hungary.
Alliance
Agreement between two countries to defend/protect each other.
1914-1918
What is industrialization?
The creation of factories.
Name 3 effects of Urbanization.
Crowded housing, contaminated drinking water, and sewage in the streets.
Alliances made the war larger than it needed to be.
Which countries were on the Allied Powers side?
Serbia, Great Britain, Russia, France, and later on the US.
Zimmermann Telegram
Message from Germany to Mexico where they asked them to join the Central Powers side and in return they would help them regain land they lost to the US.
What does draft mean and why is this done?
Draft means to force citizens to fight in a war for their country. This is done because there aren't enough troops.
What is a manufactured good?
Something that is made in a factory.
What does NAACP and what do they do?
National
Association for the
Advancement of
Colored
People
and they help People of Color receive justice.
Alliances made the war larger than it needed to be.
Which countries were on the Central Powers side?
Austria-Hungary
Ottoman Empire
Germany
Imperialism
Trying to take control of land and people.
What kind of policy did Woodrow Wilson have at the beginning of WWI and what does it mean?
Isolationist Policy- Not getting involved
What is a labor union?
Group of workers that want to gain/keep their rights to create better working conditions.
Describe the conditions that people worked in. Why were they protesting?
People worked 10+ hours a day, 6 days a week.
Children were working in these conditions.
Dangerous to work in factories.
What are the M.A.I.N. causes of WWI?
Militarism
Alliances
Imperialism
Nationalism
Militarism
Country builds up troops and makes plans for war
Why was it called the Great War?
There was more advanced military equipment. (airplanes, submarines, poison gas, machine guns, etc.)
What is a consumer?
Someone who buys a product.
Why did the Great Migration happen?
Because former slaves were tired of living in poverty and to escape prejudice
When did the US join WWI and why?
1917
Germany sank British ship (Lusitania) with Americans onboard.
US discovered Zimmermann Telegram.
Nationalism
Belief that your country is better than any other.
What did the Treaty of Versailles state?
That Germany was at fault for the war and had to pay $33 billion to the Allied Powers.