WWI Causes
This belief pushed countries to build a stronger military and compete for power.
What is militarism?
This policy was the U.S. position at the start of the war.
What is neutrality?
This ended fighting in World War I on November 11, 1918.
What is the armistice?
This amendment banned the sale and production of alcohol.
This writer used jazz and blues rhythms in poems about Black life
Who is Langston Hughes?
This system of promises between nations helped turn one conflict into a larger war.
What are alliances?
The Germans attacked this passenger ship and killed 128 Americans which angered the U.S.
What is the Lusitania?
This 1919 meeting brought together leaders to decide the peace after WWI.
What is the Paris Peace Conference?
This law limited immigration in 1921 based on national quotas.
What is the Emergency Quota Act?
This Black painter became known for bold colors and folk-inspired scenes of everyday African American life.
Who was William H. Johnson?
Gavrilo Princip was Serbian and a citizen of what nation?
What is Austria-Hungary?
This law required many American men to serve in the military during WWI.
What is the Selective Service Act?
This treaty officially ended WWI and was signed in 1919.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This author and folklorist wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
This strong loyalty to one’s country helped make nations more willing to go to war.
What is nationalism?
This 1917 German message tried to convince Mexico to attack the United States.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
This idea was Wilson’s plan for international peace after the war.
What is the League of Nations?
This 1925 trial challenged whether evolution could be taught in schools.
What is the Scopes Monkey Trial?
The Harlem Renaissance was a direct result of this event.
What is the Great Migration?
This event in 1870–1871 united Germany and helped create future tensions with France
What is the Franco Prussian War?
This was the main reason why the U.S. entered WW1.
What Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare?
This country rejected the Treaty of Versailles and refused to join the League of Nations.
What is the United States?
This atmosphere of fear led to raids, arrests, and distrust of radicals and immigrants after WWI.
What is the Red Scare?
Name another city that flourished culturally and artistically during the Harlem Renaissance.
What are Chicago, Washington D.C., Detroit, Cleveland, L.A.?