Eugene Debs Speech
This was the central right Debs argued was under attack by the Espionage Act.
What is freedom of speech?
In what year was the Treaty of Versailles signed?
What is 1919?
This was the U.S. constitutional amendment that granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
: This war began in Europe in 1914 after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
What is World War I?
Soldiers on the Western Front often fought from these deep defensive ditches.
What are trenches?
Debs claimed wars were fought in the interest of this group, not the working class.
Debs claimed wars were fought in the interest of this group, not the working class.
According to Mao, which country betrayed China by secretly giving Shandong to Japan (with support from Britain & France)?
What is Japan?
Many women supported the U.S. war effort in World War I by working in these places once men left for battle.
What are factories?
The U.S. president during World War I.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This new weapon caused deadly poison attacks and soldiers wore gas masks to protect themselves.
What is poison gas?
Debs compared himself to reformers like William Lloyd Garrison and Susan B. Anthony, who were once persecuted but later became this.
What is revered/honored?
Which of Wilson’s Fourteen Points did Mao argue was ignored in the Treaty?
What is self-determination?
This leader of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) argued that women deserved the vote as a “war measure.”
Who is Carrie Chapman Catt?
The year the United States entered World War I.
What is 1917?
This British passenger ship was sunk by a German U-boat in 1915, angering Americans.
What is the Lusitania?
In his speech, Debs declared that if this law was valid, then “there is no Constitution.”
What is the Espionage Act?
: Mao compared the Versailles Treaty to which earlier humiliations forced on China in the 19th century?
What are the “Unequal Treaties”?
Carrie Chapman Catt’s “Winning Plan” pushed for suffrage at both the state level and the __________ level.
What is the federal level?
The two main sides were the Allies and these nations, including Germany and Austria-Hungary.
What are the Central Powers?
This was a message sent to Mexico by Germany and intercepted by the United States.
What was the Zimmerman Telegraph?
Debs told the jury that it wasn’t really him on trial, but these institutions instead.
What are American institutions (or American democracy/Constitution)?
How did Mao describe the Treaty of Versailles in his writings?
What is “a fraud against the weak” and a betrayal of justice”?
: President Woodrow Wilson eventually supported women’s suffrage in part because of this war.
What is World War I?
The last campaign of World War 1 that 47 days.
The Meuse-Argonne Campaign
Wilson’s plan for peace after the war was called this.
What are the Fourteen Points?