Chapter 10 Flashcards
What kind of competition was there in the U.S?
Many foreigners living there causing imperialism and patriotic problems
4 MAIN Longterm causes of ww1
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism
Who was preparing for naval war?
Germany and Britain
What is the U.S. Doing with the military?
Building up
What did alliances do?
Made nations over confident
Who was in the Triple Alliance?
Germany, Austria-Hungry, Italy
Who was in the triple Entente?
France, Russia, and Great Britain
Short causes of WW1?
Assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand and wife hurtles toward WW1
Why was the assassination of the Arch Duke a mistake?
Arch Duke was in favor of Serbians having own country
Why was Trench warfare bad?
No movement in Front Lines
What did Americans view as WW1?
They saw it as a European problem
Why did we join with Great Britain and France?
Bc we owed French in revolutionary war
What did Britain do with the news?
Told lies of Germany and the Triple Alliance to America
Tried to stay out of war
Isolationists
Wanted to go the war
Interventionalists
Wanted peace
Internationalists
What did German U-boats do?
Sunk American ships
How does Britain hide goods from Germans in order to transport?
Hides in cruise ships
To build more ships
Build more ships
Zimmerman note
Told Germany that Mexico that they would get land back if they went to war with them
Forced enrollment in Army
Selective Service Act
What was the date of first draw?
June 1917 #258 had to go
How many were drafted in army?
2.8 mil
How many agencies to support war economy ?
9 agencies
Controlled all different aspects of manufacturers and regulated industries; most powerful board
War Industries Board
What happened if you didn’t cooperate with war economy?
You didn’t get your materials you original make
2nd big agency; ran by Herbert Hoover; reduced consumption days
Food administration
Ran the committee of public opinion; was to sell Americans and
Get them on board for war
George creel
Against anything German
War frenzy
Was the ugliest aspect of WW1 home front
German discrimination
What forbid people from fighting in war?
Moral and religious beliefs
Why were women against war?
Wanted men to stay home
How did women serve in war?
As nurse
Act that says you can’t disrupt war effort or factories
Espionage Act 1917
Act that said you can’t speak out against gov
Sedition Act 1918
Spoke out against gov ; ran 4 times for president in jail
Eugene Debs
What caused the Great Migration?
African Americans wanted jobs in factories
Mexican to bring crops in US
Bracero Project
How did U-Boats affect the war?
The german boats sank american supply ships and cargo
how did the U-Boats lose their advantage?
The Merchant ships that were being attacked sailed together surrounded by warships known as a convoy
How was Russia torn?
by revolutions
staged a revolution and led radical communists to this and gained control of russia and overthrew Czar Nicholas II
Vladimir Lenin
This treaty end the war with Russia and Germany
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
What did the treaty of Brest-Litovsk end the war in which location?
War in Eastern Front
What did the treaty of Brest-Litovsk allow Germany to do?
Send more troops to Eastern Front
Commander of American forces in Europe
John J. Pershing
What led to German offensive failure?
American and Allied counter attacks and German exhaustion
Dough Boys
American troops that fought with French at 2nd battle of Marne and Battle of Contig
Fought in Meuse-Argonne region, was trapped behind enemy lines, received medal of honor for bravery, charged germans with only a pistol
Alvin York of Tennessee
What did African Americans receive for their hard fighting?
The Croix de Guerre
How did Germany surrender?
With a railway car in campiegne France
Wilson’s outline for Americans War and Plans for peace
14 points
What did the 14 points promote?
Openness, encouraging independence, and supporting freedom
What did Wilson call for?
Open diplomacy (FREE TRADE, FREE SEAS)
right for people to choose own government
self determination
Did Wilson went to the paris peace conference by himself or with people?
By self
foreign policy expert; dishonest, and disliked
Henry Cabot Lodge
What did they talk about at the Paris Conference?
Weaken Germany
payment for war damages
Reparations
French wanted what land?
Alsace Lorraine
What did treaties solve?
Nothing; created more problems
did people listen to treaties?
No
War guilt clause
Germany caused the war
did not want to do anything with the League of Nations Treaties
-Disliked article 10
Irreconcilables
Called for mutual defense by signers of treaty of versatile
Article 10
Led by Henry Lodge, opposed the treaty of Versaille as it was
reservationists
what is influenza?
flu
what did the flu do to the world?
Killed 1/5 of the world
what did the flu do in America
killed 675,000
When did influenza appear?
1918
what happen when soldiers come home?
Women lose jobs
Communists
The red scare
Who were the Americans afraid of takeover
Communists
Attorney General; wants to be president; wants to protect americans from comms
A Mitchell Palmer
What were Palmer raids?
Palmer arresting comms, anarchists and stuff
Dominion theory
if one country is comms, then the weaker countries are
how did bombs blow up businesses?
Came through the mail
Why was WGH chosen president?
Looked like a president
Area the French wanted back that they lost to Germany
Alsace-Lorraine
How did german fight?
With machine guns and artillery
Why did the war last so long?
Defensive technology
