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Ch.19 US History WWI
WWI exam study stack
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| In 1918, the War Industries Board was organized under the leardership of | Bernard M. Baruch |
| Muckraking journalist who led the Committee on Public Information, the nation's first propaganda agency | George Creel |
| Under which a person could be fined and/or thrown in prison for interfering withthe war effort. | Espianoge and Sedition Acts |
| Large-scale movement of hundreds of thousands of Southern African Americans to the North | Great Migration |
| Treaty rejected by the Senate, and included a "war-guilt" clause blaming Germany for the war | Treaty of Versailles |
| Called of a League of Nations, freedom of the seas, and called for a change in colonial policies | Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points |
| Alliances, Imperialism, Militarism, Nationalism | Causes of WWI |
| Caused widespread starvation in Germany | British Blockade |
| What the US did to deal with U-Boats | group of guarded ships called convoys |
| Result of the Selective Service Act | men were required to register for military service |
| weapons of mechanized warfare | airplanes and tanks |
| Policy that kept the US out of the war | Neutrality |
| reason the war did not just involve Austria-Hungary and Serbia | Alliance system |
| Most compelling reason for the US to go to war in WWI | outrage of American death due to German submarine warfare |
| American supporters of WWI claimed the US was fighting a moral war because | The joined the war only after Russia's oppressive monarcy was replaced |
| Commanded the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) | John J. Pershing |
| Admiral William S. Sims convinced the British to use this as a hinderance to German U-boat attacks | convoy system |
| This term describes a person who opposes warfare on moral grounds | conscientious objector |
| This began with the introduction of the tank and airplane as weapons | mechanized warfare |
| Having shot down 26 enemy planes, he was America's leading ace pilot in the war | Eddie Rickenbacker |
| Involved merchant vessels traveling in large groups with naval ships acting as guards | convoy system |
| required men to register with the government in order to be randomly selected for military service | Selective Service Act |
| Although American women served in the navy, marines, and Army Corps of Nurses, they were not subject to this. | Selective Service Act |
| Armed only with a rifle and a revolver, he killed 25 Germans and with 6 other soldiers, captured 132 prisoners. | Alvin York |
| His assassination sparked World War I | Archduke Franz Ferdinand |
| British liner was sunk by German U-boats | Lusitania |
| In 1914,this alliance included France, Britain, and Russia | Allies |
| In 1914, this alliance consisted of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire | Central Powers |
| Contained a suggestion of alliance between Mexico and Germany that deeply angered the American people | Zimmerman Note |
| This long term cause of war involved the development of the armed forces and their use as a tool of diplomacy | Militarism |
| Closely linked with industrialization,this long-term cause of the war involved a contest for colonies | Imperialism |
| This long-term cause of war encouraged competitiveness between nations and encouraged various ethnic groups to attempt to create nations of their own. | Nationalism |
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