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Ch. 23-WWI
Question | Answer |
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Zimmerman Telegram | Germany->Mexico |
John J. Pershing | US General; led American Expeditionary Force |
War Industries Board | an agency created in July 1917 to coordinate govt purchases of military supplies |
Bernard Baruch | led WIB |
National War Labor Board | established in April 1918 to resolve labor disputes, pressured industry to grant important concessions to workers |
Ludlow Massacre | coal mine strike in which militia sided with employers |
Peace movement | considered the war a meaningless battle among capitalist nations for commercial supremacy |
Committee on Public Information | directed by George Creel; supervised the distribution of innumerable tons of pro-war literature |
Espionage Act of 1917 | gave the govt new tools with which to respond to reports of "the man who spreads the pessimistic stories...cries for peace, or belittles our efforts to win the war." |
Sabotage Act of 1918, Sedition Act of 1918 | made illegal any public expression of opposition to the war |
Big Bill Haywood | member of the IWW; prosecuted by Sabotage and Sedition Acts |
American Protective League | a groupof citizens to mobilize "respectable" members of their communities to root out disloyalty |
Wilsonianism/Fourteen Points | freedom of the seas, open covenants instead of secret treaties, free trade, impartial mediation of colonial claims, League of Nations |
Lusitania/Sussex | sinking by German submarines led to Americans joining war |
Charles Evans Hughes | ran against Wilson |
“Too proud to fight” | Wilson said this about US |
Russian Revolution 1917 | Lenin took Russia out of war |
American Expeditionary Force | selective service act |
The Big Four | David Lloyd George-Britain Georges Clemenceau-France Vittorio Orlando-Italy Woodrow Wilson-US W |
“Trusteeship” | Wilson got approval to place former colonies in "trusteeship" to the League of Nations |
“Covenant” | agreement |
Internationalism | League of Nations |
Henry Cabot Lodge | powerful chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee; hated Wilson |
East St. Louis Riots | racial riots after war |
Red summer of 1919 | Red scare grew with Communist International and American Communist Party |
Marcus Garvey | blacks should take pride in their African heritage |
Communist International | started by Russians to revolutionize the world |
“One hundred percent Americanism” | anti-immigrant sentiment |
Palmer Raids | Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer; orchestrated a series of raids on alleged radical communist centers |
19th Amendment | 1920; guaranteed women's right to vote |
Warren G. Harding | “Return to Normalcy”-elected 1920 |
New Revivalism | an effort by conservative Christians to fight off the influence of Darwin and his theory of evolution |
“Fundamentalist” | conservatives who had faith in religious "fundamentals":miracles, heaven and hell, literal truth of the Bible, etc. |
Billy Sunday | a farm boy from Iowa who experienced a conversion to evangelical Christianity |
“Tabernacles” | |
“fundamentalists vs. modernists” |