WWI Flashcards
Drafted men from ages 21-30 into military service.
Selective Service Act
U.S merchant ships would travel in large groups with protection of U.S Destroyers and Cruisers to prevent attacks from German U-Boats
Convoy System
the two methods to raise money for the war
Liberty Bonds and Revenue Act of 1918
Taxes were placed on personal income, corporations and luxury goods.
Revenue Act of 1918
A government agency, which forced factories such as Henry Ford´s automobile plant to begin producing war materials
War Industries Board 1917
Former President William Howard Taft helped with handling disputes between workers and employers as the head of this board. (pressured businesses to give worker an 8-hour work dau, minimum wage and recognition of unions to prevent strikes)
National War Labor Board 1918
An agency headed by george Creel which produced films and posters urging Americans to support the war in every way they could.
Committee on Public Information
During WWI, many African Americans left the Jim Crow South and moved north to work in wartime factories
The Great Migration
Targeted immigrant groups by policing their neighborhoods particularly those belonging to German Americans in order to locate possible German spies and to ensure American loyalty and support for the war.
American Protectionist League
Attempted to supress anti-war sentiment in the U.S during WWI.
Espionage Act of 1917
Made it a crime to say anything disloyal” about the government, Constitution, flag, or the war effort during WWI.
Sedition Act of 1918
Soldiers lived, fought, and died in cold wet, and muddy trenches during most of the war
trench warfare
The Russian Tsar was overthrown by communists. This revolution forced Russia to withdraw from WWI.
Russian Revolution 1917
principles the causes of WWI and to prevent another world war from emerging
Freedom of the Seas, Reduction of Arms, Open Treaty Negotiations, Self determination of Peoples, League of Nations
A proposed alliance promoting international cooperation and peace
League of Nations
called on each member nation to be prepared to protect other member nations around the world
Article X
Forced the German nation to accept complete responsibilty for initiating WWI
War Guilt Clause
A republican from MA opposed the League of NAtions because it threatened the U.S foreign policy of staying out of foreign entanglements and forming permanent alliances.
Henry Cabot Lodge
Presidents of the 1920s were all conservative Republicans that supported….
Pro Business policies (Laissez Faire)
helped fuel xenophobia and resulted in immigration restrictions between 1921 and 1924
the red scare
established a quota system that limited European immigration to only 357,000 people per year
Emergency Immigration Act (1921)
A system that set limits on how many immigrants from various countries nation will allow into the country
Quota system
It reduced the number of European immigrants to 150,000 allowed into the U.S each year and began using the 1800 census data
National Origins Act (1924)
These were places where alcohol was sold and consumed illegally during prohibition
Speakeasies
were people who smuggled alcohol into the U.S during prohibition.
Bootleggers
causes of WWI
militarism, alliances, imperialism, nationalism
when a country uses their military to intimidate other nations
militarism
when a country exerts its social,political, and economic power over a weaker territory or nation
imperialism
the idea that national interests should be placed above global interests
nationalism
the germans sank a british passenger ship in the atlantic killing 1,198 people including 128 Americans
Lusitania
