WWI: America

Question 1

Irriconcilables

Answer 1

The people in the senate who refused to sign the Treaty of Versailles or approve of the League of Nations

Question 2

Lodge Reservationalists

Answer 2

They would have passed the League of Nations and Treaty of Versailles if Wilson had compromised in some places. Lodge said that if we did the League of Nations, we would be entangling ourselves in European Conflicts. Lodge was a reservationist.

Question 3

19th Amendment

Answer 3

Granted women the right to vote

Question 4

Selective Service Act

Answer 4

The Draft

Question 5

League of Nations

Answer 5

Aiming to unite the countries and preclude conflict. Maintain peace

Question 6

Treaty of Versailles

Answer 6

The treaty that ended the war. Main cornerstone of the treaty was that Germany was to blame for much of the damage caused.

Question 7

Espionage and Sedition Acts

Answer 7

Acts that took away people’s civil liberties. Aimed at Hyphenated groups, primarily German-Americans; or social radical groups like communists

Question 8

Schneck v. United States

Answer 8

States clear and present danger within speech, like you cant say “I’m going to kill the president.” Fine line of the 1st amendment

Question 9

Kellogg-Briand Pact

Answer 9

Attempted to outlaw war, which was unenforceable

Question 10

David Lloyd George

Answer 10

Prime minister of Britain

Question 11

Woodrow Wilson

Answer 11

Aggressive U.S. president during WWI.

Question 12

Henry Cabot Lodge

Answer 12

Tried to kill the Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations

Question 13

George Clemenceau

Answer 13

Prime Minister of France

Question 14

William Jennings Bryan

Answer 14

Pacifist secretary of state, Wilson didnt listen to him, so he resigned

Question 15

Robert Lansing

Answer 15

Replaced Bryan, opposite viewpoint, agreed with wilson

Question 16

Vladimir Lenin

Answer 16

Leader of Bolshevik revolution that made Russia back out when the U.S. entered the war.

Question 17

John J. Pershing

Answer 17

Lead Punitive Expedition, led American Expeditionary forces in Europe

Question 18

List the three countries in the Allied Powers

Answer 18

The U.S.
Britain
France

Question 19

List three countries in the Central powers

Answer 19

Austria-Hungary
Ottoman empire
Germany

Question 20

Describe public opinion throughout most of the war

Answer 20

Most people didnt like it, or favor it. We wanted to stay out of the war.

Question 21

How did the war affect the economy of the U.S.?

Answer 21

Our industrial and agricultural production was at their highest, it boosted our economy greatly

Question 22

Why was the Sussex pledge created and what did Germany promise in the pledge?

Answer 22

This was Germany’s way of appeasing the U.S. after sinking many Allied ships. They said they would allow the passengers on the ship to get on a lifeboat and flee before they sunk the ship.

Question 23

What was the main reason for Wilson breaking diplomatic relations with Germany?

Answer 23

Unrestricted Marine Warfare.

Question 24

What did Wilson mean be “make the world safe for democracy?”

Answer 24

He use this phrase to make it seem like we were going into the war to give the other countries the opportunities that you have.

Question 25

Which groups suffered most from a violation of civil liberties?

Answer 25

Hyphenated Americans, social groups were not a democracy or a republic

Question 26

Like Canada, where did most of the money to finance the war come from?

Answer 26

Bonds and liberty bonds

Industrial and agricultural production were at an all time high.

Question 27

What was Wilson’s ultimate goal at the Paris Peace Conference?

Answer 27

He wanted the League of Nations

Question 28

What does CPI stand for? What roles did it play throughout the war?

Answer 28

Committee of Public Information which was the Propaganda agency. They made posters, it was made by George Creel.

Question 29

What role did Wilson play in the Russian Revolution?

Answer 29

Russia backed out of the war with America’s entrance into the war

Question 30

Why did Wilson want to remain neutral?

Answer 30

He wants to remain neutral in 1914-1915 because he was keeping ethnic diversity in mind, so he feared some immigrants would favor one side over the other and it would lead to internal conflict

Question 31

American women during WWI

Answer 31

During the war, the role of American Women was changing because they made up a majority of the workforce on the homefront

Question 32

The Great Migration

Answer 32

African Americans went North for industrial jobs, they couldn’t find worth in the south, they weren’t paid enough, and the Jim Crow Laws.
The Harlem Renaissance is an effect and race riots in cities like Detroit.

Question 33

Isolationism after WWI

Answer 33

Lodge wanted to be isolationist after the war. Post WWI we saw a trend of Isolationism and that will continue for about 2 decades.

Question 34

Wilson toward minorites

Answer 34

Wilson did not favor the rights of minorities

Question 35

How did the French see Wilson?

Answer 35

Wilson was loved in France

Question 36

Which two countries had a secret agreement called the Zimmerman Notes?

Answer 36

German and Mexico

Question 37

How did the mid-term elections of 1918 affect the outcome of the war?

Answer 37

Republican stronghold in the senate which led opposition to the League of Nation, and Treaty of Versailles.