11/20 U.S history exam part 3

Question 1

Treaty of Versailles - Provisions

Answer 1

• Created 9 new nations
• Created 5 mandates out of the Ottoman Empire
• Limit the size of German military
• Return Lorraine de France
• Financial reparations

Question 2

Treaty of Versailles - Weakness & Strength

Answer 2

• Germany was humiliated by the wae guilt clause

- Unreasonable reparations (Russia wasn’t included in the treaty, they lost land more than Germany)

Question 3

U.S contribution to WWI

Answer 3

Fresh troops and enthusiasm

Question 4

Espionage & Sedition Acts

Answer 4

punish people for spying, spoke out, disloyal the government or the draft
-violation of 1st Amendment

Question 5

Great immigration

Answer 5

the large scale movement of hundreds of thousands of Southern blacks to cities to the North (escape discrimination and find works)

Question 6

Selective Service Act

Answer 6

The act required men to register with the government in order to be randomly selected for military service (the draft)

Question 7

Zimmerman Telegram

Answer 7

a telegram from the German to Mexico proposed an alliance between Mexico and Germany

Question 8

U.S opposition Treaty of Versailles

Answer 8

• We wanted to remain isolationist

- Treaty would have pulled us into world affairs

Question 9

Reasons the U.S entered the war

Answer 9

-Germany unrestricted submarine warfare

Lusitania, Telegram

Question 10

How WWI led to WWII?

Answer 10

• the 1st defeat was not included in the negotiations
• the war guilt clause
• the reparations and the loss of the colonies (=> tremendous economic hardship Germany)
• Russia lost more lands than German.