chapter 19!! Flashcards
Nationalism
Devotion to our country and interests
Imperalism
Extending econimic and politcial control over various peoples of the world
Militerism
the developent of armed forces and their use as tool of diplomacy
Alliance
Formal agreement or union between nations
- Britain, France, Russia
What are the 3 facottrs that lead to the U.S entering WW1
- German u boats attacking ships going to Britain/Englsnad cargo
- Zimmerman note: telegram that got leaked that the germans and Mexico to ally assistant
- Russia pulled out of the war. moral diplomacy not a demogracy opposed their people. oligrahy
Selective Service Act
This act required men to register with the government in order to be randomly selected for military service.
WIB or War Industries Board
Board to encouraged companies to use mass - production tenquies to increase efficiency
What were some factors in the selective service act
Mass Production:
- exempted many shipyard workers from the draft
- public relations campaign to emphize the importance of shipyard work
- instead of building an entire ship in the yard. Standard parts were built elsewhere and then assembled at the yard.
National war labor board
Work or fight, but you cannot strike
Food administration
instead of rationing food, he called on people to follow the “gospel of clean plate
What was the first nations first propganda agency
Commitee on public information
What was the weapon that was used to go over barbed wire
Tanks
What is the anti immigrant hysteria
- Americans with Germans names lost jobs
- Orchestras refused to play Mozart, Bach, Beetoven
- Some towns with German changed the m
- Schools stopped teaching german
- Hamburgers became liberty burgers
Espionage and Sedition Act
Person could be fined up to 10,000 and sentenced to 20 years in jail for interfering with the war efforts or saying anything disloyal, profane, or abusive about the government or the war effort.
What was wilson 14 points
Used these points to stop conflicts
1. No secret treaties and no permanent treaties
2. Freedom of the seas
3. Free trade, tariffs, are abloshied
4. Arms needed to be at the lowest point of the body
5. Colonial practices should consider the interests of a colonial people
6 - 13. dealt with boundaries, divide up europe of certain way
14. league of nations; form for nations to talk about problems without resorting to war.
What was Wilsons Goal when suggessted his 14th points
- prevent another world war
- all countries just wanted to gain their land back and punish germany
Who was the African Leader who told African amercians to fight
Web Du Bois
William Monroe Trotter
This group in America critcized the war as a capitalist and imperalist struggle between Geramny
Socalists
Response to Great Birtians blockade with Germany
U-Boat
Centeral power countries
Germany, Austria-Hungry, and the ottoman empire
Nations that were called the “allied power” 1914
Great Britain, France, and Russia
What did pacifists believe?
war is evil
Founder of boston guardian and believed victims of racism shouldn’t support racist government in ww1
William Monroe Trotter
