Terms 151-160

Question 1

“Arabic Pledge”

Answer 1

Pledges made by the German government after the sinking of the British passenger vessel Arabic in 1915 and the French steamer Sussex in 1916, agreeing to pay an indemnity and offering public assurances that German U-boats would not sink passenger and merchant ships; the latter implied the virtual abandonment of submarine warfare.

Question 2

Selective Service Act

Answer 2

World War I draft

Question 3

War Industries Board

Answer 3

Created in July 1917, the War Industries Board controlled raw materials, production, prices, and labor relations It was intended to restore economic order and to make sure the United States was producing enough at home and abroad.

Question 4

Committee on Public Information

Answer 4

Was a propaganda committee that built support for the war effort in Europe among Americans. It depicted Germans and other enemies on bad terms, and served to censor the press. The committee helped spur up the anti-German feeling in America as well as motivated Americans to support war against Germany once declared.

Question 5

Espionage and Sedition Acts

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Shenck vs. U.S.

Answer 6

Justice Holmes’ claim that Congress could restrict speech if the words “are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create and clear and present danger” when Schenck was convicted for mailing pamphlets urging potential army inductees to resist conscription.

Question 7

Fourteen Points

Answer 7

Abolish the general causes of war: no secret diplomacy, disarmament, colonial right to territories, freedom of the seas
Self determination of Euro: people choose the gov’t, Poland independent, re-draw Balkan boundaries
General association of nations: the League of Nations

Question 8

Article X

Answer 8

This part of the Versailles Treaty morally bound the U. S. to aid any member of the League of Nations that experienced any external aggression.

Question 9

The Red Scare

Answer 9

Was a nationwide crusade against the leftists in America as a wake of the Bolshevik revolution in Russia. It cut back on free speech for a period and helped businessman to stop labor strikes, since the hysteria caused many people to want to eliminate any Communists.

Question 10

Palmer Raids

Answer 10

Attorney Gen Mitchell Palmer. Orchestrated a series of raids to uproot American communist contraband. Got three pistols