29-30 Flashcards
(22 cards)
Wilsons 14 points
Addresses the causes of WW1 and wy we should go to war against allied powers
14th and most important point
LON
Committee on public intimidation
Organization that ran on fear and PROPAGANDA
freedom gardens
gardens that americans were obligated to plant in order to conserve materials and resources for the war effort
2 laws that were mandatory and not voluntary for the war effort
Espionage act and Sedition act
Espionage act
Prohibit any freedom if it obstructs the war effort
Sedition act
You can’t talk against war
Schenck VS US
Charles Schenck is against draft and violates involuntary solitude. He is arrested and supreme court says that if freedom of speech leads to clear and present danger, then it can be taken away
War industry board
Sets prices on businesses for government purchase of the item but more importantly leads to the future government direction of the economy
National war labor board
designed to settle disputes between worker and employer so that product can be put back on the market as soon as possible. Most successful at resolving the steel strike
Alice Paul
Campaigns so hard for Womens rights and WW reluctantly gives it to her
Primary financing for war
SELLING BONDS
Draft requirements and exemptions
18-45 males NO Subs. Only exempt if you were against it in your religion or if your vital to the war effort elsewhere ( shipbuilding)
Conscious objector
Something about your religion prevents you from fighting in the war.
Shato Tiri
first european war that america is ever in
Big 4
France US GB Italy
Leader of big 4
WW
Wilsons mistake
doesnt bring republican (especially not Henry Cabot Lodge) so when senate doesnt vote for it, he is surprised
Senate breakdown
Loyal democrats Irreconciliables and Reservationists
What is Ww not willing to compromise on
lON
Solem Referendum
since technically the US isn’t in the LON or treaty of versailles, then Wilson says if people vote democrat they want to be in it but if they vote republican then they dont want to
Harding
republican winner who is wishy washy with the idea of LON