Chapter 21

Question 1

Triple Entente

Answer 1

France, Russia and the UK

Question 2

Central Powers

Answer 2

Germany and Austria-Hungary, later joined by the Ottoman Empire

Question 3

Zimmermann Telegram

Answer 3

Germany offered to help Mexico take back Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico if Mexico allied with Germany against the US. This prompted the US to enter WWI

Question 4

Trench Warfare

Answer 4

TRUE
- Soldiers mainly stayed in trenches, only occasionally engaging in direct combat
- New chemical weapons required troops to carry gas masks at all times
- Widespread use of machine guns

NOT TRUE
-Battle were much shorter than in previous years

Question 5

League of Nations

Answer 5

An international organization that would guard international freedoms and ensure that secret treaties would not trigger another world war

Question 6

Red Scare

Answer 6

“Nearly thirty states enacted new peacetime sedition laws imposing harsh penalties on the promoters of revolution. Spontaneous acts of violence against supposed radicals occured in some communities.”

Question 7

Palmer Raids

Answer 7

A series of raids on leftists and labor leaders in 1920 by the US Federal Government that led to arrest more than 6,000 people and the deportation of 500

Question 8

Great Migration

Answer 8

The push factor was the poverty, racism and violence Black people faced in the South. The pull factors were Northern factory jobs and communities where they could enjoy more freedom

Question 9

Lusitania

Answer 9

It was the name of a boat sunk by a German submarine. This attack killed 128 Americans and over a thousand people

Question 10

Marcus Garvey

Answer 10

He was a founding figure of Black nationalism, the idea that Black people around the world should take pride in their own culture and create their own institutions separate from white society.

Question 11

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti

Answer 11

Two Italian immigrants, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, were charged with murder of a paymaster in Braintree, Massachusetts. They were convicted in a trial and sentenced to death by Judge Webster Thayer

Question 12

Pancho Villa

Answer 12

Pancho Villa was a general in the Mexican Revolution. Pancho attempted to overthrow the Mexican Government.

Question 13

Treaty of Versailles

Answer 13

The US Senate famously failed to ratify the Treaty of Versailles, meaning that the League of Nations did not have official approval of the US, even though President Wilson was one of its principle creators.

Question 14

Allies

Answer 14

The Allies were France, Russia, UK, and eventually the US and Italy

Question 15

Triple Alliance

Answer 15

Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy