21 WWI and Its Aftermath

Question 1

RMS Lusitania

Answer 1

Created stronger pressure for war inside US
- inclued with other German attacks on American and British shipping raising stakes for war

Question 2

Natonal Defense Act of 1916

Answer 2

Modernized the military reserves and the Army (National Guard), giving US larger pool of trained soldiers and officers
- Mobilized 100,000+ National Guardsmen by Wilson across country as a show of force in northern Mexico

Question 3

Zimmermann Telegram

Answer 3

Coded message to Mexico proposing an alliance against the United States to distract them with another war
Complicated American intervention by offering support to Mexican government via a bid to regain Rexas, New Mexico, and Arizona
Helped usher the US into the war, imflaming public opinion

Question 4

Selective Service Act of 1917

Answer 4

Caused due to insufficient volunteer numbers for a war in Europe
- avoided unpopular system of bonuses and substitutes used during Civil War

Question 5

Army Alpha

Answer 5

Tested on intelligence, people who could read took this test to evalute neurological, psychiatric, and mental evaluations

Question 6

Army Beta

Answer 6

Tested on intelligence, people who were illiterates and non-English-speaking immigrants took nonverbal equivalent,visual testing procedures took this test to evalute neurological, psychiatric, and mental evaluations

Question 7

Creel Committee

Answer 7

Committe on Public Information
- partnered with Hollywood and mass media to produce pro-war propaganda
- inspiring patriotism, generating support for military adventures

Question 8

Espionage Act

Answer 8

Centerpiece of widespread actions against immigrants, anarchists, socialists, and labor organizers that weakened movements for the war
Used to crack down on dissidents who argued the War, including Eugene Debs, was being fought for interests of rich while poor suffer and die

Question 9

Sedition Act

Answer 9

Illegal to express negative views about the government
Used to crack down on dissidents who argued the War, including Eugene Debs, was being fought for interests of rich while poor suffer and die

Question 10

“Spanish Flu”

Answer 10

A deadly form of influenza flurished in conditions of war and claiming 50 million lives, weakning combat capabiltiies
- “Spanish Lady” appearing in uncensored newspapers of neutral Spain