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(Class 16) The Great War Flashcards

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William Jennings Bryan

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Appointed as Secretary of State as a reward for Bryan’s support of Woodrow Wilson in election of 1912

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Triple Alliance Countries

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  • Germany
  • Austria-Hungary
  • Italy (eventually leaves and replaced by Ottoman Empire)
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What was another name for the Triple Alliance Countries?

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Central Powers

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Triple Entente Countries

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  • Britain
  • France
  • Russia (obligated by a treaty to protect Serbia)
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Another name for the Triple Entente Countries

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Allied Powers / Allies

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Whose assassination “sparked” WW1?

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Archduke (Franz) Ferdinand

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Who was Archduke Ferdinand assassinated by?

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Bosnian national Gavrilo Princip (19)
Member of Young Bosnia
“Black Hand”

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What was Trench Warfare?

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Act of digging trenches to hide and fight in

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How many people died from WW1?

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  • War claimed 8.5 million lives and twice that number wounded
  • Total of 37 million casualties including civilians
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How did most of the people die in WW1?

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combat and disease

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What was a Underseebooten?

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U boats (German Submarines)

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What does Germany decide to do after Britain’s navy set up an economic block on them?

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(February 1915) Germany announces they will sink all boats on way to Britain

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What was the Lusitania?

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British Passenger Ship

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What happens to the Lusitania?

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(May 7, 1915) U boat sinks the British passenger liner Lusitania – killing 1,198 passengers including 124 American citizens

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“Middle of the Road” Strategy

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  • (May 10, 1915) Wilson announces that any further destruction of ships would be regarded as “deliberately unfriendly” and would lead U.S. to break diplomatic relations with Germany
  • He demanded that Germany end unrestricted submarine warfare
  • Germany apologized for deaths on Lusitania
  • Germany went further and promised no more submarine attacks without warning
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What was the Zimmerman Telegram?

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  • (In March 1917) the British intercept a telegram sent from German foreign secretary Arthur Zimmerman to Mexico
  • It proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the event the United States entered the war against Germany.
  • In exchange for Mexican alliance Germany would see that Mexico regained Texas, New Mexico and Arizona from the United States
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What did Woodrow Wilson do in retaliation to the Zimmerman Telegram?

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Goes to Congress to approve policy of “armed neutrality”

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Who were the Harlem Hellfighters?

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  • 370,000 armed forces were African-Americans
  • 369th Regimen of 92nd division was integrated with the French and saw more combat than any other unit
  • 171 members of the 369th were awarded the Legion of Merit
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What was the Selective Service Act of 1917?

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  • Authorized a draft of all young men into the armed services
  • Draft had been first used during the Civil War
  • Draft boards eventually drafted 2.8 million men into the armed forces
  • 2 million others volunteered to fight
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What was Prohibition?

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Ban on Alcohol

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What was the 18th Amendment?

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  • (December 1917) – Congress passed the 18th Amendment
  • Declared the production, transport, and sale of alcohol (though not the consumption or private possession) illegal
  • Prohibition went into effect January 1, 1920
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What was the 19th Amendment?

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  • In 1919 Congress passed the 19th Amendment granting women the vote
  • “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”
  • “Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.”
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Wilson’s 14 Points

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  • January 8, 1918 Wilson revealed to Congress his 14 point plan for democratic order in the world after war
  • First 5 points affirmed basic liberal ideals
  • The next 8 points supported the right of self-determination of European peoples
  • Final point was establishment of a League of Nations – “parliament of man” to secure lasting peace
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Did the US ever become a member of the League of Nations?

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No

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League of Nations

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  • He believed the League would provide collective security and establish rules of international conduct
  • It would be an agent to resolve future conflicts between nations without war
  • Wilson’s refusal to accept compromise lost the treaty
  • U.S. never signed the Paris Peace Treaty
  • Failure of America to join probably weakened the League from the very start
  • President Harding in 1921 signed separate treaties with Germany, Austria and Hungary to end WWI
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Versailles Peace Treaty

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  • Versailles peace treaty was signed on June 28, 1919 and Wilson returned home in July
  • He was disappointed in many of the provisions of the treaty
  • He felt he had failed to get acceptance of the majority of his 14 points
  • But he was happy that his centerpiece – the League of Nations – was agreed upon by the allies
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Who was Henry Cabot Lodge?

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  • Harvard College, Harvard Law School and Harvard PhD in History (similar to Wilson)
  • Senator from Massachusetts
  • Republican
  • Chairman of the Foreign Relations committee
  • Felt League threatened US independence in foreign affairs
  • Did not completely reject it outright
  • Proposed amendments/reservations to membership in the League of Nations
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Great Flu Epidemic of 1918

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  • The1918 influenza pandemic(January 1918 – December 1920) was an unusually deadlyinfluenza epidemic
  • It infected 500million people across the world,including Europe, US and remote Pacific islands and the Arctic
  • Resulted in the deaths of 50 to 100million (three to five percent of the world’s population)
  • In World War I – 8.5 million died
  • One of the deadliest natural disasters in human history
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The Great Migration

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  • From 1915 to 1920 a half a million African-Americans (10% of south’s black population) boarded trains bound for industrial cities in the north
  • Encountered many problems in terms of work and racism in the north but had little to lose in the south
  • Most stayed in North and encouraged family and friends to migrate too
  • By 1940 more than 1 million African-Americans left the south and headed north
  • Harlem in New York and Southside of Chicago
  • By 1970 6 million had moved out of the south

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