ch.21 pt.2

Question 1

lusitania (1915), sussex pledge, unrestriced subarine warfare

Answer 1

l- lusitana was the british luxury boat that sunk and made wilson reconsder his options
sussex pledge was a promise made in 1916 during World War I by Germany to the United States prior to the latter’s entry into the war. Early in 1915, Germany had instituted a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare, allowing armed merchant ships, but not passenger ships, to be torpedoed without warning.

Question 2

zimmerman telegram

Answer 2

urged mexico to join the central powers, promising that if the united states entered the war, germany would help mexico recover lost territory.

Question 3

bolshevik revolution

Answer 3

communist revolution in russia, b govt was lef by vladmir lenin who sought peace with the central powers.

Question 4

afrcan american and native american soldier experience

Answer 4

american soldiers outnumbered them and they were also treated harshly

Question 5

national war labor board and food administration

Answer 5

formed in april established an 8 hour day for war workers with time and a half pay for overtime, equal pay for women. food administration was the most successful wartime agency and allowed threefold rise in food exprots to europe

Question 6

committee on public information and the four-minute men

Answer 6

group of volunteert that had to give four minute speeches on topics given to them by the committee of public information

Question 7

espionage and sedition acts

Answer 7

e; ave postal officials the authority to ban newspapers and magazines from the mails and threatened individuals convicted of obstructing the draft with $10,000 fines and 20 years in jail
s; which made it a federal offense to use “disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language” about the Constitution, the government, the American uniform, or the flag

Question 8

schenck v united states

Answer 8

is a United States Supreme Court decision concerning enforcement of the Espionage Act of 1917 during World War I.

Question 9

great migration

Answer 9

the movement of 6 million blacks out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1910 and 1970.

Question 10

alice paul and the nwp

Answer 10

Alice Paul was an American suffragist, feminist, and women’s rights activist, and the main leader and strategist of the 1910s campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which prohibits sex discrimination in the right to vote

Question 11

19th amendment

Answer 11

prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex. It was ratified on August 18, 1920.

Question 12

wilson’s 14 points

Answer 12

ddress to Congress, President Woodrow Wilson proposed a 14-point program for world peace. These points were later taken as the basis for peace negotiations at the end of the war.

Question 13

league of nations

Answer 13

intergovernmental organisation founded on 10 January 1920 as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War.

Question 14

treaty of versailles

Answer 14

It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.