Chapter 21

Question 1

Rise of Germany, Austro-Hungary, and Italy became a triple threat so Great Britain, France, and Russia (Triple Entente) came together to fight the

Answer 1

European Diplomacy before WWI

Question 2

Border trouble in Mexico let US test out military forces

Answer 2

American Interventions in Mexico

Question 3

Post war in Europe President Wilson declared US neutral

Answer 3

American Neutrality

Question 3

Hard for US to maintain neutrality due to ties with France and England who obtained far more supplies and loans from the US

Answer 3

Warfare in Europe

Question 4

US unable to stay neutral due to ties with England and France so they joined the Allied Nations

Germany also sunk the Lusitania

Answer 4

Challenges to American Neutrality

Question 5

Germany sends a telegram to Mexico saying if you help us then we’ll help you take Texas and Arizona and Mexico ignores it and sends it to the US instead

Answer 5

The Zimmerman Telegram

Question 6

Wilson joined WWI but realized that the US wasn’t ready for warfare so he began training people to send instead

Answer 6

Woodrow Wilson and WWI

Question 7

US feared people wouldn’t volunteer for WWI like they did in the past so they created a draft system

Answer 7

American Entrance into WWI

Question 8

This draft required any male aged 21-30 and in good health to join the army

Answer 8

The Selective Service Act

Question 9

Black and white people in different units in WWI

Blacks figured if they were drafted, fought and died like white soldiers then people would see they deserved citizenship

Instead war department wouldn’t let black troops fight and made them general laborers

Answer 9

Race and America’s Armed Forces

Question 10

Women joined several military and civilian organizations

Women also took up jobs that would’ve typically been a mans job so more men could go out and join the war

Answer 10

Woman and the War Effort

Question 11

This act sought to stop wartime activities considered dangerous or disloyal

Answer 11

The Espionage Act

Question 12

This act made it a crime to give information intended to interfere with the war effort

Answer 12

The Sedition Act

Question 13

European forces struggled to adapt to modern warfare

Russia collapsed and Germany retreated

Answer 13

American Forces in Europe

Question 14

Two waves of a pandemic

First wave spread across America and soldiers making its way to France

Second wave mutated and made it deadly killing people aged 18-35

Disappeared in the 1920s

Answer 14

The Flu Pandemic

Question 15

Allied leaders met in France at Versailles to decide the terms of settlement to officially end the war

Answer 15

The Treaty of Versailles

Question 16

Statement from Wilson about war aims and peace terms

points offered up ways long term peace could be built

Answer 16

The Fourteen Points

Question 17

Created to help keep worldwide peace by preventing anymore destruction like the one across Europe

An attack on one of the members would be viewed as an attack on all the members

Answer 17

The League of Nations

Question 18

Many countries divided up and some even gone like the Ottoman Empire

Answer 18

The Postwar World

Question 19

Russian revolution started America’s fear of communism

Answer 19

The First Red Scare

Question 20

Violence broke out post war

Riots originated from wartime racial tensions and led to massive bloodshed of African Americans

Answer 20

The Red Summer