entering the war
women stepped into do what?
assemble weapons, airplane parts, drive trains, trolleys, etc.
True or False : The U.S ended up not signing a peace treaty ending World War I ?
True
Nationalism created what?
deep mistrust
how many soldiers died in the war?
between 8 and 9 million
Alaska cost the U.S how much money?
$7.2 million (or 2 cents per acre)
congress pass a selective service act in 1917, requiring all men 21-30 to register for what?
the draft
True or False: the U.S Senate accepted the peace treaty ?
False, the U.S Senate rejected the peace treaty
the Archduke of Austria was killed by a Serbian terrorist in what year?
1914
who wiped out a nest of German machine gunners?
Corporal Alvin York (Tennessee)
what policy kept the U.S out of foreign affairs for over 100 years?
a policy of isolationism
A huge bureaucracy of government agencies was set up to do what?
manage the war effort
Why did allies place a huge burden of reparations on Germany?
to keep them from re-building
the war lasted from 1914-1918, featuring poison gas and what?
trench warfare
what year did the Bolsheviks seize power in Russia as part of a Communist revolution?
November, 1917
what is the policy of powerful countries seeking to control weaker countries?
Imperialism
congress voted for war in what year?
April 1917
what did the 14 points propose that included all nations of the world ?
League of Nations
Germany sinks a Brittish passenger ship in 1915 killing 128 Americans what was the ship called?
Lusitania
Vladimir Lenin followed the ideas of what german thinker?
Karl Marx
Secretary of state pressed the U.S to buy what?
Alaska
what act sharply raised taxes to fund the war?
the war revenue act
The U.S adopted an official position of neutrality, though both sides waged war of what?
Propaganda
president Wilson demanded that the German Kaiser abdicate the throne as what?
Prerequisite
the U.S pressured Japan to sign what?
the Treaty of Kanagawa