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WWI
World War One
Question | Answer |
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Those who would not accept US membership in the League of Nations no matter what | Irreconcilables |
Those who would accept the Leauge of Nations if certain restrictions were added | Reservationists |
Torpedoed and sunk by a German U-Boat | Lusitania |
Public reaction to the Bolshevik Revolution; characterized by the fear that labor strikes and race riots might lead to revolution in America | Red Scare |
Supreme Court decision (1919) that established that the government could limit speech in wartime in times of "clear and present danger" | Schenk v. U.S. |
Pandemic that killed more than 22 million people around the world; killed half a million in the US | Spanish Flu |
Formally ended World War I; stripped Germany of all its colonies and ordered Germany to pay reparations; created new nations, and established the League of Nations; made Germany acknowledge guilt for causing the war | Treaty of Versailles |
Included open diplomacy, freedom of the seas, removal of trade barriers, arms reduction, self-determination, and the League of Nations | Fourteen Points |
Offer to Mexico that if it allied with Germany, then Germany would help Mexico recover Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona; inflamed public opinion in the US | Zimmermann Telegram |
Germany's declaration that its submarines would not attack passenger or merchant ships without giving fair warning | Sussex Pledge |
The practice of rewarding the Allies with control over conquered territories to administer until the people were presumably ready to govern themselves | Mandates |