WWI - America

Question 1

Irreconcilables

Answer 1

Members of the senate unwilling to pass the League of Nations or the Treaty of Versailles no matter what

Question 2

Lodge Reservationists

Answer 2

Would have passed the LON or the TOV if Wilson had been willing to compromise, feared that passing the LON would have entangled the US in Europe

Question 3

19th Amendment

Answer 3

Gives women the right to vote, a result of women’s involvement in war

Question 4

Selective Service Act

Answer 4

Registered men for the draft

Question 5

League of Nations

Answer 5

Aiming to unite countries and avoid war, acting as a mediator

Question 6

Espionage and Sedition Acts

Answer 6

Acts that take away civil liberties, against groups with radical political ideology and hyphenated Americans

Question 7

Schneck v. United States

Answer 7

States “clear and present danger,” can’t say things that threaten the safety of the United States as a whole, despite free speech

Question 8

Kellogg-Briand Pact

Answer 8

attempted to outlaw war, therefore it is unenforceable

Question 9

David Lloyd George

Answer 9

Prime Minister of Britain during the war

Question 10

Woodrow Wilson

Answer 10

President of the United States during the war

Question 11

Henry Cabot Lodge

Answer 11

Main opposition of Wilson in the Senate

Question 12

Georges Clemenceau

Answer 12

Prime Minister of France during the war

Question 13

William Jennings Bryan

Answer 13

Pacifist SOS, resigned and replaced with Robert Lansing

Question 14

Robert Lansing

Answer 14

Replaced Bryan as SOS, encouraged Wilson to go to war

Question 15

Vladimir Lenin

Answer 15

Leader of the Bolshevik Revolution, made Russia back out of the war

Question 16

John J. Pershing

Answer 16

Punitive Expedition

Question 17

List three countries in the Allied Powers

Answer 17

France, Britain, Russia

Question 18

List three countries in the Central Powers

Answer 18

Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey/Ottoman Empire

Question 19

Describe public opinion throughout most of the war

Answer 19

Americans truly wanted to stay out of the war up until the Zimmerman note was written

Question 20

How did the war affect the economy of the US?

Answer 20

Industrial and agricultural production were at their highest, due to trade with Europe

Question 21

Why was the Sussex pledge created and what did Germany promise in the pledge?

Answer 21

Pledge was Germany’s way of appeasing the US, said that they would not sink Allied ships without giving people the chance to get in life boats.

Question 22

What was the main reason for Wilson breaking diplomatic relations with Germany?

Answer 22

Unrestricted submarine warfare

Question 23

What did Wilson mean by “make the world safe for democracy”?

Answer 23

He wanted to make sure that all nations in the world were able to be a democracy

Question 24

Which groups suffered most from a violation of civil liberties?

Answer 24

Hyphenated Americans, and radical groups/social outcasts

Question 25

Like Canada, where did most of the money to finance the war come from?

Answer 25

bonds and liberty loans

Question 26

What was Wilson’s ultimate goal at the Paris Peace Conference?

Answer 26

League of Nations

Question 27

What does CPI stand for? What role did it play throughout the war?

Answer 27

Committee of Public Information, established propaganda

Question 28

Why does Wilson want to remain neutral?

Answer 28

he worries that people of different ethnic backgrounds will take sides and cause fights within the US

Question 29

How were the lives of American women changing?

Answer 29

During the war, lives for American women were changing because they made up the majority of the workforce on the homefront

Question 30

How were the lives of African Americans changing?

Answer 30

Great Migration, African Americans leaving the South and heading North for industrial jobs, better jobs, pay, and no Jim Crow laws, effect of that is race riots in the North

Question 31

How did the midterm elections of 1918 affect the outcome of the war?

Answer 31

Saw a republican stronghold within the Senate, leading to opposition to and failure to pass the LON and the TOV