Pages 5-9 Flashcards
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Herbert Hoover
Head of the food administration which set prices for agriculture products
Food aministration
Set prices higher for wheat and other crops to increase production
CPI
Committee on public information, encouraged public support for the war
George Creel
Leader of the CPI
Espionage act
Allowed post office to ban treasonable newspaper, magazines, printed materials from mail
Sedition act
Used to prosecute socialists, political radials, passisvists
Eugene Debs
Leader of the socialist party and 1st person to be tried under the sedition act
Schenck v. U.S
Upheld sedition act saying that the 1st amendment is illegal
The Kaiser/Beast of Berlin
Popular movies by CPI by portraying Germans as arrogant and ruthless
Vladimir Lenin
Leader of the communist revolution in Russia
Treaty of Brest litovsk
Allowed Russia to withdraw from WWI
John J Pershing
US commander of American forces in WWI
11-11-1918
Date for the end of WWI, Germany surrounded to the allies
14 points
Peace without victory
Self determination
Right of people to choose their own form of gov
Henry Cabot Lodge
A republican foreign policy expert who was furious when president Wilson traveled to Versailles with no republicans
War guilt clause
Idea that Germany caused the war
Irreconcilables
US senators who opposed any treaty that had the League of Nations in it
Article 10
Called for the mutual defense by the signers of the treaty
A. Mitchell Palmer
US attorney general who had a bomb mailed to him
Planer raids
Palmer had thousands of immigrants arrested
Sacco and Vanzetti
Convicted of murdering 2 men based on the fact they were Italian
Warren G. Harding
Elected president in 1920, gave the final rejection of the treaty of Versailles
Normalcy
Harding was calling for simpler times
