People and Places
Big Deals
Artists
Wartime
Government
100

Gavrilo Princip committed murder here.

Sarajevo

100

War can't be used as an instrument of foreign policy.

Kellogg-Briand Pact

100

The Ambassador of Jazz

Louis Armstrong

100

This established the western front.

Battle of the Marne

100

Building the army through conscription.

Selective Service Act

200

Defensive war meant that soldiers spent a lot of time here.

Trenches

200

Russia exits WW1.

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

200

The great Black American poet of the 1920s

Langston Hughes

200

When the Germans resumed this, the U.S. entered the war.

Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

200

Managed U.S. Propaganda

CPI

300

123 Americans died here on 7 May 1915.

Lusitania

300

Women can vote.

19th Amendment

300

Disillusioned novelists, like F. Scott Fitzgerald, were known as this.

The Lost Generation

300

Congressional representative that voted against U.S. entry into WW1.

Jeannette Rankin

300

Heinrich Von Eckhardt presented this to Venustian Carranza in 1917

Zimmerman Telegram

400

These people headed for northern cities in the Great Migration.

Black Americans

400

U.S. lends money to Germany, which Germany pays to France in reparations, which France pays to U.S. in war debt.

Dawes Plan

400

Zora Neale Hurston and Duke Ellington were part of this cultral movement

Harlem Renaissance

400

Strategy to protect ships from submarines

Convoy System

400

This told businesses what to make, how much, and how much to charge

War Industries Board

500

Auto workers got more pay and weekends off from work from him.

Henry Ford

500

Wilsons ideas for the post-war world. They all failed.

14 Points

500

She wanted to make the U.S. a nation of "thoroughbreds," and not "human weeds."

Margaret Sanger

500

Herbert Hoover expertly headed this during and after WW1.

Food Administration

500

This was argued in Dayton, TN in 1925 by Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan. 

Scopes Trial