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Ch. 23-WWI
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Zimmerman Telegram | Germany->Mexico |
| John J. Pershing | US General; led American Expeditionary Force |
| War Industries Board | an agency created in July 1917 to coordinate govt purchases of military supplies |
| Bernard Baruch | led WIB |
| National War Labor Board | established in April 1918 to resolve labor disputes, pressured industry to grant important concessions to workers |
| Ludlow Massacre | coal mine strike in which militia sided with employers |
| Peace movement | considered the war a meaningless battle among capitalist nations for commercial supremacy |
| Committee on Public Information | directed by George Creel; supervised the distribution of innumerable tons of pro-war literature |
| Espionage Act of 1917 | gave the govt new tools with which to respond to reports of "the man who spreads the pessimistic stories...cries for peace, or belittles our efforts to win the war." |
| Sabotage Act of 1918, Sedition Act of 1918 | made illegal any public expression of opposition to the war |
| Big Bill Haywood | member of the IWW; prosecuted by Sabotage and Sedition Acts |
| American Protective League | a groupof citizens to mobilize "respectable" members of their communities to root out disloyalty |
| Wilsonianism/Fourteen Points | freedom of the seas, open covenants instead of secret treaties, free trade, impartial mediation of colonial claims, League of Nations |
| Lusitania/Sussex | sinking by German submarines led to Americans joining war |
| Charles Evans Hughes | ran against Wilson |
| “Too proud to fight” | Wilson said this about US |
| Russian Revolution 1917 | Lenin took Russia out of war |
| American Expeditionary Force | selective service act |
| The Big Four | David Lloyd George-Britain Georges Clemenceau-France Vittorio Orlando-Italy Woodrow Wilson-US W |
| “Trusteeship” | Wilson got approval to place former colonies in "trusteeship" to the League of Nations |
| “Covenant” | agreement |
| Internationalism | League of Nations |
| Henry Cabot Lodge | powerful chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee; hated Wilson |
| East St. Louis Riots | racial riots after war |
| Red summer of 1919 | Red scare grew with Communist International and American Communist Party |
| Marcus Garvey | blacks should take pride in their African heritage |
| Communist International | started by Russians to revolutionize the world |
| “One hundred percent Americanism” | anti-immigrant sentiment |
| Palmer Raids | Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer; orchestrated a series of raids on alleged radical communist centers |
| 19th Amendment | 1920; guaranteed women's right to vote |
| Warren G. Harding | “Return to Normalcy”-elected 1920 |
| New Revivalism | an effort by conservative Christians to fight off the influence of Darwin and his theory of evolution |
| “Fundamentalist” | conservatives who had faith in religious "fundamentals":miracles, heaven and hell, literal truth of the Bible, etc. |
| Billy Sunday | a farm boy from Iowa who experienced a conversion to evangelical Christianity |
| “Tabernacles” | |
| “fundamentalists vs. modernists” |
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