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WWI
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Lusitania | British ship sunk by Germans |
| Gavrilo Princip | Assassinated Arch Duke, Franz Ferdinand. |
| War Industries Board | coordinated the production of war materials |
| Contraband | Goods that are prohibited from shipping |
| Ferdinand Foch | Commander of the allied forces |
| Propaganda | Information designed to influence opinion |
| Espionage | Spying to acquire government secrets |
| Vladimir Lenin | Bolshevik leader |
| Liberty Bonds | Loaning money to the government |
| Four-minute Men | Give patriotic speeches |
| National War Labor Board | Preventing strikes |
| Women in the armed forces | First war women officially served in the armed forces |
| Great Migration | African Americans moving from the South to the North |
| Austria-Hungary annexed Bosnia | Infuriate the Serbs |
| Selective Service Act | Order of service that could draft 18 y/o males into the army by lottery |
| Committee on Public Information | Sell the war to American people |
| The Espionage and Sedition Acts | Criticism of the war is effectively silenced |
| British entered WWI | When the German troops crossed into Belgium |
| Army Nurses | Traveled over seas with soldiers |
| Bolsheviks | Take power in Russia after the Russian Revolution. Establish communism. |
| Describe Wilson’s 14 points plan by summarizing the main purpose of the first five points, then the next eight points, and finally the fourteenth point. | 5- Open diplomacy. 8-Self determination. 14- League of Nations |
| Explain the purpose of the War Industries Board and the National War Labor Board and describe their activities. | War Industry Board organized industry, set the prices, controlled raw material, and set priorities. National War Labor Board co-op between unions and management. They mediated labor disputes |
| What caused the inflation after the World War I, and how did inflation help cause the wave of strikes in the United States? | Inflation was caused by the government removing controls on what businesses could charge. People rushed to buy goods and businesses raised their prices. Workers wanted to raise their wages. Companies wanted to hold down the wages. |