Sides and leaders
The heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary.
Who was Francis Ferdinand?
Germans used these to sink other ships.
What is a U-boat (Submarine)?
This movement to the "Land of Hope," as many African Americans referred to the North at that time.
What is The Great Migration?
President during the war who led the “make the world safe for democracy.”
Who is President Woodrow Wilson?
A larger group of senators, led by Henry Cabot Lodge was known for opposing the treaty as it is written.
What are reservationists?
This person did not want to see the war set Americans against one another.
Who is President Woodrow Wilson?
Gases such as chlorine, phosgene, and mustard gas could kill, blind, or burn their victims.
What is poison gas?
Jim Crow segregation laws, lynchings, racial violence, low-paying jobs as sharecroppers/servants, and ruined cotton crops due to boll weevil infestation were push factors for this group of people.
Why did the African Americans move North?
These were another name for American troops.
What are doughboys?
The clause suggested that Germany had caused the war.
What is the war guilt clause?
Remained neutral at first, but ended up abandoning its long tradition of staying out of European conflicts.
What is The United States of America?
An improved weapon that could fire 600 bullets per minute.
What is a machine gun?
These Americans were brutally beaten, harassed, and in some cases unalived based on their identity.
What happened to German Americans?
Groups of merchant ships sailed together, protected by warships.
What is a convoy?
Called for mutual defense by the signers of the treaty, a pledge that each nation would ¨respect and preserve...the territorial integrity and existing political independence of all the Members of the League.¨
What is Article 10?
The triple alliance.
What was Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy?
These long-range cannons caused more casualties than any other type of weapon.
Most immigrated to the American West, where they sought work on large ranches and farms in Texas and along the Pacific Coast.
Who are Mexican Americans?
The commander of American forces in Europe; an experienced soldier and leader who had fought in several wars before the beginning of American involvement in World War I.
Who is John J. Pershing?
Stated, ¨A general association of nations must be formed...for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike... .It is the principle of justice to all peoples...and their right to live on equal terms...with one another, whether they be strong or weak.¨
What was President Wilson´s favoring joining speech?
German emperor who assured Austria-Hungary that Germany would stand by its ally if war came.
Who was Kaiser William II?
Both sides tried to develop vehicles that could go over the rough ground and barbed-wire barricades of no man's land, with limited success.
What are tanks and armored cars?
Dropped its initial peace initiatives and supported America's war objectives.
What is the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)?
Wilson answered Lenin's charges about the nature of the conflict by outlining America's war aims in what became known as this.
What are Fourteen Points?
Stated, ¨Mr. President, there is another reason...why I shall record my vote against this treaty. It imperils what I conceive to be underlying, the very first principles of this Republic. It is in conflict with the right of our people to govern themselves free from all restraint, legal or moral, of foreign powers. It challenges every tenet of my political faith.
What was Senator William Borah's opposing speech?