Period 7 Part 2 Flashcards
(39 cards)
World War I alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire.
Central Powers
This British liner was sunk in 1915, by German U-Boats, causing Wilson to issue a stern warning to the Germans, telling them not to attack unarmed vessels “without warning”.
Lusitania
1917 - Germany sent this to Mexico instructing an ambassador to convince Mexico to go to war with the U.S. It was intercepted and caused the U.S. to mobilized against Germany, which had proven it was hostile
Zimmerman telegram
This Act required all men between 21-30 years to register for the military. Each received a number, and draftees were chosen like a lottery. In contrast to the Union’s civil war conscription, there was no way for men to “opt out” of this draft.
Selective Service Act
Established by Woodrow Wilson and headed by George Creel, this was the Federal group that worked on producing and distributing pro-war propaganda to the US people.
Committee on Public Information
Law which punished people for aiding the enemy or refusing military duty during World War 1.
Espionage Act
Added to Espionage Act, this act deemed “disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language” about the American form of government, the Constitution, the flag, or the armed forces as criminal and worthy of prosecution– the reason why Eugene V. Debs was imprisoned.
Sedition Act
A legal case in which it was ruled that government can limit free speech if the speech provokes a “clear and present danger” of substantive evils.
Schenck v. United States
American force of 14,500 that landed in France in June 1917 under the command of General John Pershing. Both women and blacks served during the war, mostly under white officers
American Expeditionary Force
He was an American general who led troops against “Pancho” Villa in 1916. He took on the Meuse-Argonne offensive in 1918 which was one of the longest lasting battles- 47 days in World War I. He was the commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe during World War I.
John J Pershing
the war aims outlined by President Wilson in 1918, which he believed would promote lasting peace; called for self-determination, freedom of the seas, free trade, end to secret agreements, reduction of arms and a league of nations.
Fourteen Points
Ended World War I; it was much harder on Germany than Wilson wanted but not as punitive as France and England desired. It was harsh enough, however, to set stage for Hitler’s rise of power in Germany in 1930s.
Treaty of Versailles
Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he was a leader in the fight against participation in the League of Nations
Henry Cabot Lodge
erupted in the early 1920’s. The American public was scared that communism would come into the US. Left-winged supporters were suspected. This fear of communism helped businessman who used it to stop labor strikes.
Red Scare
as part of the Red Scare, in these 1919-1920 raids thousands of Americans not born in the US were arrested and deported. These today are looked at as unconstitutional.
Palmer Raids
major scandal in the scandal- ridden administration of President Harding; Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall had 2 oil deposits put under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior and leased them to private companies in return for large sums of money.
Teapot Dome
the 1920’s industrial wizard whose assembly line techniques made possible the production of 20 million of his autos by 1930
Henry Ford
Industrialist Henry Ford installed this while developing his Model T car in 1908, and perfected its use in the 1920s. This manufacturing allowed workers to remain in one place and master one repetitive action, maximizing output. It became the production method of choice by the 1930s.
Assembly Line
an image of the 1920’s the emphasized the more relaxed social attitudes of the decade. Name referring to the 1920s; a time of cultural change; generally refers to the arts such as writing, music, artwork, and architecture, this American music emerges from African American church and community, becomes international, uniquely American, white America and Europe embrace.
Jazz Age
American leader of the movement to legalize birth control during the early 1900’s. As a nurse in the poor sections of New York City, she had seen the suffering caused by unwanted pregnancy. Founded the first birth control clinic in the U.S. and the American Birth Control League, which later became Planned Parenthood.
Margaret Sanger
Writer Gertrude Stein named the new literary movement when she told Hemingway, “You are all this,” referring to the many restless young writers who gathered in Paris after WW I. Hemingway used the quote in The Sun Also Rises. They thought that the U.S. was materialistic and the criticized conformity.
Lost Generation
a novelist and chronicler of the jazz age. his wife, zelda and he were the “couple” of the decade but hit bottom during the depression. his novel THE GREAT GATSBY is considered a masterpiece about a gangster’s pursuit of an unattainable rich girl.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Author who fought in Italy in 1917. He later became a famous author who wrote “The Sun Also Rises” (about American expatriates in Europe) and “A Farewell to Arms.” In the 1920’s he became upset with the idealism of America versus the realism he saw in World War I. He was very distraught, and in 1961 he shot himself in the head.
Ernest Hemingway
Modernization of styles (influenced by Egyptian art***)
After the discovery of King Tuts Tomb.
Art Deco
