Chapter 18 Flashcards
First war to be fought on a global scale ; 1914-1918 ; 5,000,000 casualties
WW1
His assassination started WWI ; shot and killed by Serbian Terrorist
Archduke Ferdinand
Undersea boat or submarine used first by Germany in 1915
U-boat
British luxury liner ; one of the first victims of submarine warfare , sailed out of NY
Lusitania
Message from Germany to Mexico intercepted by Britain ; promised Mexico land from New Mexico , Texas , Arizona in return for helping them in war
Zimmerman note
U.s. Set up the selective service act requiring all able bodied men from 21-30 to register in the draft ; lack of soldiers at the time
The draft
Established in u.s. In 1917 to regulate prices and industrial production ; American factories switched to war-time production
War industries board
Provided punishment for traitors
Espionage act
Poison gas , machine guns , flame throwers , hand grenades , tanks , etc.
New weapons
Commander of the American expeditionary force
General John Pershing
A group of communist radicals led by Vladimir Lenin
Bolsheviks
Pulled Russia out of the war and signed a armistice (cease fire) with Germany ; overthrew the personal government and established a communist dictatorship
Vladimir Lenin
Speech calls for world peace ; 14 points
President Wilson
Nov 11 , 1918 ; Germany out down their guns and stopped fire
Armistice day/veterans day
President Wilson ; prime minister David Lloyd George of England ; premier Georges Clemenceau of France ; prime minister vittorio Orlando of Italy
The “big four”
A series of compromises approved the League of Nations ; Germany looses territory ; Germans military was downsized ; Germany had to lag reparations and admit guilt
Treaty of Versailles
Organized a communist party in America in 1919 ; a terrorist organization dedicated to worldwide revolution
Third international
Nickname for communist
Reds
Federal bureau of investigation founded by j Edgar Hoover
FBI
Rise of technology , entertainment , women , new goods and services , and literature in America ; ended with the economic crash in 1929
The roaring twenties
Faster way of production ; Henry ford mass production
Assembly line
Car ; ten seconds ; first type of car to be made on an assembly line
Model t
Auto = car ; no other invention has had such great impact on average citizen
The auto
Became available throughout the nation
Electricity
Because the first national radio network in 1927
National broadcasting company
Theatre district known as Broadway ; became world center for banking , the arts , international trade
New York
Location of the giant film industry ; first talking movie 1927
Hollywood
National association for the advancement of colored people , 1909 founded by w.e.b. Dubois to oppose discrimination
NAACP
Most notorious “gangster” called Scarface ; was named public enemy number 1 by FBI
Al Capone
German liberal theology denying biblical truths
Modernism
Baseball player turned evangelist who preached to an estimated 100 million people
Billy Sunday
Prohibited the sale of alcoholic beverages
18th amendment
Guaranteed all American women the right to vote , women’s suffrage
19th amendment
Scopes , substitute teacher , taught evolution in class and war charged w breaking law ; William Jennings Bryan defended the bible and won the case against evolution
John “scopes trial”
