Period 7 Part 2

Question 1

World War I alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire.

Answer 1

Central Powers

Question 2

This British liner was sunk in 1915, by German U-Boats, causing Wilson to issue a stern warning to the Germans, telling them not to attack unarmed vessels “without warning”.

Answer 2

Lusitania

Question 3

1917 - Germany sent this to Mexico instructing an ambassador to convince Mexico to go to war with the U.S. It was intercepted and caused the U.S. to mobilized against Germany, which had proven it was hostile

Answer 3

Zimmerman telegram

Question 4

This Act required all men between 21-30 years to register for the military. Each received a number, and draftees were chosen like a lottery. In contrast to the Union’s civil war conscription, there was no way for men to “opt out” of this draft.

Answer 4

Selective Service Act

Question 5

Established by Woodrow Wilson and headed by George Creel, this was the Federal group that worked on producing and distributing pro-war propaganda to the US people.

Answer 5

Committee on Public Information

Question 6

Law which punished people for aiding the enemy or refusing military duty during World War 1.

Answer 6

Espionage Act

Question 7

Added to Espionage Act, this act deemed “disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language” about the American form of government, the Constitution, the flag, or the armed forces as criminal and worthy of prosecution– the reason why Eugene V. Debs was imprisoned.

Answer 7

Sedition Act

Question 8

A legal case in which it was ruled that government can limit free speech if the speech provokes a “clear and present danger” of substantive evils.

Answer 8

Schenck v. United States

Question 9

American force of 14,500 that landed in France in June 1917 under the command of General John Pershing. Both women and blacks served during the war, mostly under white officers

Answer 9

American Expeditionary Force

Question 10

He was an American general who led troops against “Pancho” Villa in 1916. He took on the Meuse-Argonne offensive in 1918 which was one of the longest lasting battles- 47 days in World War I. He was the commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe during World War I.

Answer 10

John J Pershing

Question 11

the war aims outlined by President Wilson in 1918, which he believed would promote lasting peace; called for self-determination, freedom of the seas, free trade, end to secret agreements, reduction of arms and a league of nations.

Answer 11

Fourteen Points

Question 12

Ended World War I; it was much harder on Germany than Wilson wanted but not as punitive as France and England desired. It was harsh enough, however, to set stage for Hitler’s rise of power in Germany in 1930s.

Answer 12

Treaty of Versailles

Question 13

Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he was a leader in the fight against participation in the League of Nations

Answer 13

Henry Cabot Lodge

Question 14

erupted in the early 1920’s. The American public was scared that communism would come into the US. Left-winged supporters were suspected. This fear of communism helped businessman who used it to stop labor strikes.

Answer 14

Red Scare

Question 15

as part of the Red Scare, in these 1919-1920 raids thousands of Americans not born in the US were arrested and deported. These today are looked at as unconstitutional.

Answer 15

Palmer Raids

Question 16

major scandal in the scandal- ridden administration of President Harding; Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall had 2 oil deposits put under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior and leased them to private companies in return for large sums of money.

Answer 16

Teapot Dome

Question 17

the 1920’s industrial wizard whose assembly line techniques made possible the production of 20 million of his autos by 1930

Answer 17

Henry Ford

Question 18

Industrialist Henry Ford installed this while developing his Model T car in 1908, and perfected its use in the 1920s. This manufacturing allowed workers to remain in one place and master one repetitive action, maximizing output. It became the production method of choice by the 1930s.

Answer 18

Assembly Line

Question 19

an image of the 1920’s the emphasized the more relaxed social attitudes of the decade. Name referring to the 1920s; a time of cultural change; generally refers to the arts such as writing, music, artwork, and architecture, this American music emerges from African American church and community, becomes international, uniquely American, white America and Europe embrace.

Answer 19

Jazz Age

Question 20

American leader of the movement to legalize birth control during the early 1900’s. As a nurse in the poor sections of New York City, she had seen the suffering caused by unwanted pregnancy. Founded the first birth control clinic in the U.S. and the American Birth Control League, which later became Planned Parenthood.

Answer 20

Margaret Sanger

Question 21

Writer Gertrude Stein named the new literary movement when she told Hemingway, “You are all this,” referring to the many restless young writers who gathered in Paris after WW I. Hemingway used the quote in The Sun Also Rises. They thought that the U.S. was materialistic and the criticized conformity.

Answer 21

Lost Generation

Question 22

a novelist and chronicler of the jazz age. his wife, zelda and he were the “couple” of the decade but hit bottom during the depression. his novel THE GREAT GATSBY is considered a masterpiece about a gangster’s pursuit of an unattainable rich girl.

Answer 22

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Question 23

Author who fought in Italy in 1917. He later became a famous author who wrote “The Sun Also Rises” (about American expatriates in Europe) and “A Farewell to Arms.” In the 1920’s he became upset with the idealism of America versus the realism he saw in World War I. He was very distraught, and in 1961 he shot himself in the head.

Answer 23

Ernest Hemingway

Question 24

Modernization of styles (influenced by Egyptian art***)

After the discovery of King Tuts Tomb.

Answer 24

Art Deco

Question 25

United States composer who incorporated jazz into classical forms and composed scores for musical comedies (1898-1937)

Answer 25

George Gershwin

Question 26

a flowering of African American culture in the 1920s; instilled interest in African American culture and pride in being an African American.

Answer 26

Harlem Renaissance

Question 27

African American poet who described the rich culture of african American life using rhythms influenced by jazz music. He wrote of African American hope and defiance, as well as the culture of Harlem and also had a major impact on the Harlem Renaissance.

Answer 27

Langston Armstrong

Question 28

Founded by Marcus Garvey, a movement that encouraged those of African decent to return to Africa to their ancestors so that they could have their own empire because they were treated poorly in America.

Answer 28

Back to Africa Movement

Question 29

Harlem political leader,many poor urban African Americans turned to this powerful leader in the 1920s. He urged black economic cooperation and helped African Americans start businesses. He founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and advocated mass migration of African Americans back to Africa. his Universal Negro Improvement Association ran into financial trouble, however. He was eventually arrested for mail fraud and deported to his native Jamaica in 1927.

Answer 29

Marcus Garvey

Question 30

the interpretation of every word in the bible as literal truth.

Answer 30

Fundamentalism

Question 31

a highly publicized trial in 1925 when John Thomas Scopes violated a Tennessee state law by teaching evolution in high school; pitted the teaching of Darwin’s theory of evolution against teaching Bible creationism.

Answer 31

Scopes trial

Question 32

renounced Chicago trial lawyer and confessed agnostic who was the defense attorney in the Scopes “Monkey Trial” of 1925. He ultimately lost but the ruling was merely a gesture and was overturned by the State Supreme Court. While cross-examining Bryan he made a great argument against fundamentalists because Bryan “the bible interpretation expert” had revealed ignorance and single minded interpretations

Answer 32

Clarence Darrow

Question 33

The Act specified that “no person shall manufacture, sell, barter, transport, import, export, deliver, furnish or possess any intoxicating liquor except as authorized by this act.” It did not specifically prohibit the purchase or use of intoxicating liquors.

Answer 33

Volstead Act

Question 34

a business supplying illegal goods or services.

Answer 34

Organized Crime

Question 35

newcomers from Europe were restricted to 3 percent of the people of their nationality living in America in 1910 per year. immigration of Europeans changed from 3 percent to 2 percent and the yer changed from 1910 to 1890, which was favorable to northern Europeans than to southern and eastern; absolutely against Japanese.

Answer 35

Quota laws of 1921 and 1924

Question 36

both were convicted of the murder of a man, and although the evidence was circumstantial, they were executed.

Answer 36

Sacco and Vanzetti Case

Question 37

(1921) An international conference on the limitation of naval fleet construction begins in Washington. Under the leadership of the American Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes the representatives of the USA, Great Britain, France, Italy, and Japan pledge not to exceed the designated sizes of their respective naval fleets

Answer 37

Washington Conference

Question 38

the 1928 treaty which outlawed war as an instrument of national policy. A sentimental triumph of the 1920s peace movement, this 1928 pact linked sixty-two nations in the supposed “outlawry of war”.

Answer 38

Kellogg-Briand Treaty

Question 39

An arrangement negotiated in 1924 to reschedule German reparations payments. It stabilized the German currency and opened the way for further American private loans to Germany.

Answer 39

Dawes Plan