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Chapter 21
American Republic
Question | Answer |
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Once the United States entered World War I | many Americans began to mistrust or despise anything German |
The Us Government regulated private industry during the war to allow | adjustments in war production |
American troops were not | prepared for World War I |
This killed thousands of soldiers during World War I | Influenza (Flu) |
American troops help save this city from the Germans | Paris, France |
Britain violated the United States at sea | in the early years of the war |
As a result of the war | jobs were plentiful and wages rose |
America's flying Ace in World War I | Eddie Rickenbacker |
Vittorio Orlando | Italy's representative at Versailles |
U.S. President during World War I | Woodrow Wilson |
Headed the Food Administration during World War I | Hubert Hoover |
His assassination started the war | Archduke Francis Ferdinand |
Commander of the American Expeditionary Force | John Pershing |
Took Russia out of the war | Vladimir Lenin |
French Premier | Georges Clemenceau |
Supreme Allied Commander | Ferdinand Foch |
David Lloyd George | represented Great Britain at Versailles |
Nickname given to American soldiers during World War I | doughboys |
2 important alliances formed before World War I was | Triple Alliance and Triple Entente |
Define Reparations | payments made by losing nation to winning nation for damages |
Germany's top ace in dog fights was | The Red Baron |
Germany used this to reduce British imports | unrestricted Submarine warfare |
Year World War I broke out | 1914 |
Woodrow Wilson's plan for peace | Fourteen Points |
The Convoy System was used by the United States to | protect troops ships bound for Europe |
Germans sank this ship to pressure America to enter the war | R.M.S. Lusitania |
Atomic bomb, tank, poison gas | all developed during world war I |
Germans use of U-boats | were disturbing to Americans |
Draft Boards, Victory Gardens, and the War labor Policy Boards | were all war efforts at home |
November 11, 1918 | Armistice day ending World War I |
What was the major way America paid for the War effort | Liberty and Victory loan drives |
What countries made up the Allied powers | Great Britain, France, Russia, United States |
April 6, 1917 | United States officially entered World War I |
Central Powers included | Bulgaria, Germany, Turkey |
World War I famous battles | the Argonne Forest, Chateau-Thierry, St. Mihiel |
Know the major causes of World War I | pg 401 - 402 |
History is | FUN FUN FUN |