Para 4: WW1

Question 1

What year did America enter the War?

Answer 1

1917

Question 2

What happens following American entry into the war?

Answer 2

Governmental powers and regulations are increased and new federal agencies are established to regulate nearly all aspects of American industry, labour and agriculture

Question 3

What Acts limit Civil Liberties during this time?

Answer 3

The Espionage Act and the Sedition Act

Question 4

What year was the Espionage Act and what did it do?

Answer 4

1917, prohibits making false statements about the war effort

Question 5

What year was the Sedition Act and what did it do?

Answer 5

1918, makes a crime out of slandering the war effort

Question 6

What do these acts do?

Answer 6

Limit freedoms of expression and political freedoms of all Americans

Question 7

How was America’s entry into WW1 shaped?

Answer 7

Shaped by Wilson as being for reasons such as ‘freedom of democracy’, however whilst the war was ongoing freedoms vital to a functioning democracy were removed at the home front

Question 8

World War One…

Answer 8

brings about a series of policy changes and implementations of new laws which impeach upon the freedoms of all American citizens