American Imperialism/World War I

Question 1

A 1917 intercepted dispatch in which Germany urged Mexico to join the Central Powers and promised that if the United States entered the war, Germany would help Mexico recover Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona; outraged the American public and led toward U.S. entry in the war on the Allied side.

Answer 1

Zimmerman Telegram

Question 2

A federal board established in July 1917 to direct military production, including allocation of resources, conversion of factories to war production, and setting of prices.

Answer 2

War Industries Board

Question 3

A federal agency founded in 1918 that established an eight-hour day for war workers (with time-and-a-half pay for overtime), endorsed equal pay for women and supported workers’ right to organize.

Answer 3

National War Labor Board

Question 4

Name given to thousands of volunteers enlisted by the Committee on Public Information to deliver short prowar speeches at movie theaters to galvanize public support for the war.

Answer 4

Four-Minute Men

Question 5

Wartime law that prohibited any words or behavior that might promote resistance to the United States or help in the cause of its enemies.

Answer 5

Sedition Act of 1918

Question 6

The movement of over 400,000 African Americans from the rural South to the industrial cities of the North during and after World War I.

Answer 6

Great Migration

Question 7

A political party founded in 1916 that fought for an Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in the early twentieth century.

Answer 7

National Women’s Party

Question 8

Principles for a new world order proposed in 1919 by President Woodrow Wilson as a basis for peace negotiations at Versailles. Among them were open diplomacy, freedom of the seas, free trade, territorial integrity, arms reduction, national self-determination, and creation of the League of Nations.

Answer 8

Fourteen Points

Question 9

The international organization bringing together world governments to prevent future hostilities, proposed by President Woodrow Wilson in the aftermath of World War I; the United States never became a member state.

Answer 9

League of Nations

Question 10

The 1919 treaty that ended World War I; assigned Germany sole responsibility for the war; a debt of $33 billion in war damages; severely limited Germany’s military.

Answer 10

Treaty of Versailles

Question 11

U.S. President from 1912-1920; known for his Progressive reforms and keeping the U.S. out of WWI until 1917; creator of the Fourteen Points and the idea for the League of Nations; suffered a massive stroke his last year in office.

Answer 11

Woodrow Wilson

Question 12

a global outbreak of a contagious sickness; e.g. the 1918-19 worldwide influenza outbreak that killed millions.

Answer 12

pandemic

Question 13

leader of the National Women’s Party; staged picket protests outside of the White House for women’s suffrage rights; advocated for an Equal Rights Amendment.

Answer 13

Alice Paul

Question 14

Supreme Court cases that established limitations to free speech and that the Espionage Act of 1917 was constitutional; “The most. stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting “Fire! in a theatre and causing a panic…”

Answer 14

Schenk v. United States