Causes and People
This means to take over other countries or lands to gain power.
What is imperialism?
These are the countries of the Allied Powers.
What is Great Britain, France, Russia, Serbia, Italy, the U.S.
These are ways that the U.S. government got the word out to Americans about ways to help in the war effort from home.
What are ... plays, films, speeches, posters, songs, parades, rallies, etc.
How did "Hoovervilles" get their name?
Named to shame President Hoover.
How did passing the Social Security Act help people?
taxes paid by workers and employers were used to help older Americans.
did a poor job regulating American monetary and financial systems
What is the Federal Reserve?
This man from Fentress County, TN killed or captured over 130 German soldiers. He won the Medal of Honor and became very famous.
Who is Alvin York?
These are the countries of the Central Powers.
What is Austria-Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire?
These are ways that the Food Administration encouraged Americans to help soldiers during the war.
What is ... planting vegetable gardens, "Meatless Mondays," and "Wheatless Wednesdays"
What happened to the U.S. Banking system after the stock market crash in 1929?
Banks failed when consumer could not repay their debts
build airports highways, public buildings, and public parks and fund the creation of artistic decorations of public buildings
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Government passed high American ____ that discouraged international trade.
What is tariffs?
This man was president of the U.S. who said he wanted to "make the world safe for democracy."
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
This British ship was sunk by a German U-boat and 128 Americans on board died, causing more Americans to be involved in the war.
What is the Lusitania?
This was a nickname for young American soldiers sent to fight in Europe during WWI.
Who were the "doughboys"?
President when the Great Depression began.
President Herbert Hoover
preserve natural resources through soil conservation, tree plaiting and flood control projects that expanded and developed the national parks
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
lack of regulation allowed many banks to fail when the stock market crashed
What is the Government?
These are agreements between countries to help and defend each other.
What are alliances?
This was a message sent from Germany to Mexico to try and involve them and the U.S. in the war, promising Mexico land in return.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
This man was head of the Food Administration during the war and made a plan to help with food shortages in Europe.
Who was Herbert Hoover?
Believed the government needed to do more to help the economy
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
to build dams to prevent flooding and provide electricity to a poverty-stricken region throughout seven states
What is Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?
occurred in part because government did not limit how much money people borrowed to buy stocks
What is the banking crisis?
This man was killed by a Serbian nationalist from Bosnia.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
The German use of this led to increased tensions between Germany and the U.S.
What is submarine warfare?
This man was leader of the American Expeditionary Forces, AKA the doughboys.
Who was General John J. Pershing?
Who started the soup kitchens?
Churches
to provide jobs and income for out-of-work Americans
What is New Deal Works Programs?
president that believed in "rugged individualism"
Who is President Herbert Hoover?