WW1 People

Question 1

Robert La Follette (Fighting Rob)

Answer 1

• Governer of Wisconsin; progressive Republican leader
• “Wisonsin Ide” → model for state progressive government
• “brain trust” → panel of experts to help him create an effective efficient government
• denied nomination for Republicans in favor of TR

Question 2

John J. Pershing

Answer 2

• General; lead troops against “Pancho” VIlla in 1916
• took on the meuse-argonne offensive in 1918 which was one of the longest lasting battles → 47 days in WW1
• commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe during WW1

Question 3

Arthur Zimmerman

Answer 3

• German foreign secretary who offered Mexico an alliance w/ Germany against US; note became public + prompted America to enter war

Question 4

George Creel

Answer 4

• head of Committee on Public Information; directed the flow of government propaganda on the war + faced issues of censorship, news manipulation, the public’s “right to know.”
• task: convince a divided country of the wisdom of Wilson’s decision to join war against Germany

Question 5

Eugene V Debs

Answer 5

• labor leader; helped organize the American Railroad Union → went on strike against the PUllman Palace Car Company in 1894: Debs + others went to prison for 6 months
• converted to socialism
• ran for president 5 times between 1900 and 1920 → campaigned from prison
• in prison for opposing American involvement in WW1

Question 6

William D. Haywood “Big Bill”

Answer 6

• leader of the Industrial workers of the world, the Western Federation of Mineo and the Socialist Party of America
• one of the most feared American labor radicals
• during WW1 → became a special target of anti-leftist legislation

Question 7

Bernard Baruch

Answer 7

• head of War Industries Boar to help economic confusion
• attempted to impose some order on the US war production
• stock spectacular appointed by Wilson
• millionare

Question 8

Herbert C. Hoover

Answer 8

• Republican candidate who assumed presidency in March 1929
• promised American people prosperity + attempted to first eal with the Depression by trying to restore public faith in the community
• Quaker from Iowa
• Blamed for the stock market crash

Question 9

Henry Cabot Lodge

Answer 9

• chairman of the Senate Foreign Relation Committee
• leader in the fight against participation in the League of Nations
• Republican senator from MA

Question 10

David Lloyd George

Answer 10

• prime minister → wanted Germany to face harsh decisions from the Pans Peace Conference; had just returned to power after his party had promised to hang the kaiser
• British representative @ Pans Peace Conference