WWI Flashcards
(28 cards)
Schlieffen Plan
German Plan to strike france quickly through Belgium
Failed because Belgium put up a good fight allow French and British to come in.
German U Boats
know this
William Jennings Bryan protested preperation for war a resigned
replaced by Robert Lansing
election of 1916
Wilson (“he kept us out of war”)
Charles Evan Hughes (R) nominated over TR
US enters war because
Unrestricted submarine warfare
inability to remain neutral
economic and political ties to Britain
All quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
Zimmermann Note
proposal from Germany to Mexico to join WWI in exchange for territory lost to the US (Tx, Nm, Az)
us enters the war
april 1917, first combat may 1918
american Expiditionary Force (AEF)
led by John J. Pershing, (“lafayette we are here”)
really his aide Colonel Charles Stanton
Turns the tide of the war
Manfred von Richtofen
red baron
shot down 80 enemy aircraft
Edward Rickenbacker
top american pilot
shot down 26 enemy plane
George M. Cohan
wrote “Over There”
Convoys
bridge of ships
effective against U-boats
Director of Food Administration
Herbert Hoover
Director of War Industries Board
Bernard Baruch
key figure in Woman’s suffrage
Harriet Stanton Blanch
Great Migration
many blacks escape south and migrate to north
better job opportunities
less discrimination
red summer 1919
race riots
National War Labor Board
settled disputes betwen workers and employees
generally unions got stronger
Idustrial Workers of the world (wobblies)
opposed war, victims of government/vigilantism
opponents of the war
American germans and Irish, Socialists, Progressives, Pacifists, Jeanette Rankin(first female in congress)
George Creel
tried to sell the war
committee on public information
4 minute men
strong antigerman message
Espionage Act 1917
crime to disrupt with military
Schenck v US
sent anti-draft pamphlets
akin to shouting fire in a theatre
clear and present danger
