Key Terms
German telegraph seeking help from Mexico in the fight against the US.
What is the Zimmerman note?
France, Britain, Russia and the US.
Who are the Allies?
Large scale movement of African Americans from the south to the north.
What is the Great Migration?
President Wilson's peech before Congress outlining plan for peace after WWI.
What is the 14 Points Speech?
Payment for war damages.
What are reparations?
The land between trenches in trench warfare, usually covered with barbed wire and bombs.
What is no man's land?
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire.
Who are the Central Powers?
In 1914 this company opened its doors to African American workers, increasing work opportunities in the north.
What is Ford?
In the 14 Points Speech, Wilson outlines the causes of war.
What are alliances, attack on the seas, tariffs, economic barriers, military build-up and Imperialism?
The amount of money Germany had to pay for war damages.
What is 33 billion dollars?
The passenger liner sunk by German U-boats.
What is the Lusitania?
Congress requires men age 18 and over to register with the government.
What is the Selective Services Act?
The law passed by Congress allowing women to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
The last 8 points of Wilson's speech call for this.
What are boundary changes?
Colonies taken from Germany as part of the Treaty of Versailles.
What are territories in Africa and the Pacific?
Laws that imposed penalties for disloyalty to the United States.
What is the Espionage and Sedition Acts?
Founder of the Boston Guardian, believed victims of a racist government should not support the war efforts of a racist government.
Who is William Monroe Trotter?
The move to the north by African Americans was an attempt to avoid this form of legal discrimination.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
The idea that national groups who claimed distinct ethnic identities were to decide for themselves what nations they would belong to.
What is self-determination?
Germany is prohibited from importing or manufacturing this after the Treaty.
What are weapons or war materials?
Use of destroyers to protect merchant ships from German U-boats.
What is the convoy system?
African American leader who encouraged blacks to support the war effort.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
An African American owned newspaper encouraging Southern Blacks to move north with articles contrasting life in the South to opportunities in the North.
What is the Chicago Defender?
Wilson called for an international organization to discuss and settle grievances without going to war.
What is the League of Nations?
A clause in the Treaty forcing Germany to acknowledge that it alone was responsible for WWI.
What is the War-Guilt clause?