Ch 19

Question 1

What were the causes of WWI? (MAIN)

Answer 1

Militarism, The alliance system, nationalism, and imperialism

Question 2

This is the development of armed forces and using them as a tool of diplomacy

Answer 2

Militarism

Question 3

What was the triple entente?

Answer 3

(Allies) Russia, France, Britain, and later the US

Question 4

What was the Central Powers?

Answer 4

Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire

Question 5

This is the extending of economic and political control over others

Answer 5

Imperialism

Question 6

This is the devotion to the interests and culture of one’s nation

Answer 6

Nationalism

Question 7

This person was heir to the Austrian throne, but he was murdered when visiting Sarajevo by a Serbian nationalist

Answer 7

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Question 8

What is Sarajevo?

Answer 8

The capital of Bosnia

Question 9

This was the German plan to invade Belgium & France

then focus 2 armies on Russia

Answer 9

Schlieffen Plan

Question 10

This is the area between 2 parallel trenches

Answer 10

No Man’s Land

Question 11

What was a trench structured like?

Answer 11

Barbed wire, a front line trench, a support trench, and a reverse trench in the back. In the far back was large range artillery

Question 12

What connected trenches?

Answer 12

Communication lines

Question 13

What did the British blockade with Germany ensure?

Answer 13

No weapons, food, and military supplies for the Germans

Question 14

This was a British passenger liner sunk in 1915 by the German U-Boats

Answer 14

Lusitania

Question 15

When did the US declare war?

Answer 15

April 1917

Question 16

This was a 1917 german telegraph proposing a German-Mexican alliance to help Mexico regain US lands that were once theirs

Answer 16

The Zimmerman Note

Question 17

What lands did the Zimmerman Note promise to help mexico re-gain?

Answer 17

Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona

Question 18

Why did the US declare war?

Answer 18

The Zimmerman Note, unrestricted submarine warfare, and Russia got a representative government

Question 19

What did the war boil down to for the US?

Answer 19

A war of democracies and monarchies

Question 20

This is a 1917 act requiring men to register for military service

Answer 20

Selective Service Act

Question 21

What did women do in the army?

Answer 21

They could volunteer as nurses without army ranks, pay, or benefits

Question 22

This is escorting merchant ships by war ships to protect from U boats

Answer 22

Convoy system

Question 23

What did germans have difficulty with once their fleet started to be destroyed?

Answer 23

Replace their losses with trained submariners

Question 24

This man led the American Expeditionary Force (AEF)

Answer 24

John J. Pershing

Question 25

This is warfare that relies on gas or deisel powered machinery

Answer 25

Mechanized warfare

Question 26

This man was an esteemed soldier who was a conscientious objector

Answer 26

Alvin York

Question 27

What is a conscientious objector?

Answer 27

A person who opposes war on moral grounds

Question 28

This regulated the economy

Answer 28

War Industries Board

Question 29

What did the War Industries Board focus on?

Answer 29

Encouraging Companies to use mass production techniques and production quotas

Question 30

This man was the leader of the War Industries Board

Answer 30

Bernard M. Baruch

Question 31

_____ introduced daylight savings time time

Answer 31

War industries board

Question 32

What was a direct effect of the WIB?

Answer 32

Soaring profits and production up 20%

Question 33

What happened as unions boomed?

Answer 33

Strikes and labor leaders became common

Question 34

Why was the Food Administration set up?

Answer 34

To produce and conserve food

Question 35

Why did people grow "Victory Gardens?"

Answer 35

To offset the cost of food by growing their own food

Question 36

This is biased communication to influence peoples thoughts and actions

Answer 36

Propaganda

Question 37

What did the Committee on Public Information do?

Answer 37

Promote patriotism by targeting the civil liberties of some ethnic groups

Question 38

Who did propaganda tend to target?

Answer 38

Emigrants from Germany and Austria-Hungary

Question 39

This man was the head of the committee on public education

Answer 39

George Creel

Question 40

These imposed harsh penalties on anyone interfering with or speaking against participation in the war

Answer 40

The Espionage and Sedition Acts

Question 41

This was Wilson's plan for peace following WWI

Answer 41

14 Points Plan

Question 42

What was bad about the Espionage and Sedition Acts?

Answer 42

They violated the 1st amendment and targeted socialists, laborers, and newspapers

Question 43

What was the 1st part to the 14 point plan?

Answer 43

5 points to prevent another war

Question 44

This is the movement of southern blacks to cities in the north

Answer 44

Great Migration

Question 45

What was the 2nd part of the 14 point plan?

Answer 45

8 points on boundary changes

Question 46

What was the 3rd part of the 14 point plan?

Answer 46

Making a League of Nations

Question 47

What was the League of Nations?

Answer 47

1919-1946: international organization to adress diplomatic crises to precent war

Question 48

How did Women become more liberated during the war?

Answer 48

They got suffrage and jobs previously held only by men

Question 49

How did Wilson support suffrage?

Answer 49

He acknowledged its existence

Question 50

What gave women the right to vote?

Answer 50

19th amendment in 1920

Question 51

What was the death toll of the mysterious flu of 1918?

Answer 51

It killed 500,000 americans and 30 million worldwide, and ended suddenly in 1919

Question 52

How did the Allies react to Wilson's plan?

Answer 52

They rejected it

Question 53

Who were not included in the peace talks?

Answer 53

Germany, Russia, and smal allied nations

Question 54

What did the Treaty of Versailles do?

Answer 54

Make 9 new nations, banned Germany from maintaining an army, and germany to pay 33 billion in reparations

Question 55

How did Germany's treatment weaken the treaty?

Answer 55

They were not happy so it weakened a possibility for lasting peace

Question 56

This is where Germany took sole responsibility for the war

Answer 56

War-Guilt Clause

Question 57

What was taken from Germany?

Answer 57

Its colonies

Question 58

How did the Russians lose more territory than Germany?

Answer 58

They were not at the peace talks

Question 59

Why did the League of Nations not happen in America?

Answer 59

They thought we would need to change our policy of isolationism for entry and we would need to form our policy in accord with them

Question 60

This senator was the main opposition for the League of Nations

Answer 60

Henry Cabot Lodge

Question 61

What changes did the War bring in the US?

Answer 61

Social changes for blacks and women and a strengthened military and government

Question 62

What was bad about the Treaty of Versailles>

Answer 62

It settled nothing

Question 63

This man was a famous WWI Fighter pilot

Answer 63

Eddie Rickenbacker