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