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| 5409109598 | National administrative state | NAACP, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 by Moorfield Storey, Mary White Ovington and W. E. B. Du Bois. | 0 | |
| 5409111480 | Allied Powers | Alliance that included Great Britain, France, Russia (later, the Soviet Union), the United States, and other countries during World Wars I and II. | 1 | |
| 5409111481 | Central Powers | In World War I the alliance of Germany and Austria-Hungary and other nations allied with them in opposing the Allies. | 2 | |
| 5409112929 | American Exceptionalism | The idea that the American experience was different or unique from others, and therefore America had a unique or special role in the world, such as a "city upon a hill." | 3 | |
| 5409109599 | Western Front | A line of trenches and fortifications in World War I that stretched without a break from Switzerland to the North Sea. Scene of most of the fighting between Germany, on the one hand, and France and Britain, on the other. | 4 | |
| 5409114329 | Eastern Front | In WWI, the region along the German-Russian Border where Russians and Serbs battled Germans, Austrians, and Turks. | 5 | |
| 5409116141 | Lusitania | A British passenger ship that was sunk by a German U-Boat on May 7, 1915. 128 Americans died. The sinking greatly turned American opinion against the Germans, helping the move towards entering the war. | 6 | |
| 5409116142 | Zimmerman Note | 1917 - Germany sent this to Mexico instructing an ambassador to convince Mexico to go to war with the U.S. It was intercepted and caused the U.S. to mobilized against Germany, which had proven it was hostile. | 7 | |
| 5409118108 | Selective Service Act | This 1917 law provided for the registration of all American men between the ages of 21 and 30 for a military draft. By the end of WWI, 24.2 had registered; 2.8 had been inducted into the army. Age limit was later changed to 18 to 45. | 8 | |
| 5409114330 | Unterseeboot | A military submarine (U-boat) operated by the German government. Used to attack enemy merchant ships in war zone waters. | 9 | |
| 5409123733 | Slackers | About 300,000 men (labeled as "slackers") evaded the draft. | 10 | |
| 5409123734 | Convoy | A collection of merchant ships with an escort of warships. | 11 | |
| 5409123735 | Influenza pandemic | 1918 global outbreak of influenza, a highly contagious viral infection, killing as many as 30 million people worldwide. | 12 | |
| 5409125392 | Eddie Rickenbacker | Famous "ace" pilot who downed 26 enemy fighters in WWI. | 13 | |
| 5409122058 | Volunteerism | During World War II, many on the home front were called upon to volunteer and assist the war effort. This included buying of war bonds, conserving raw materials, and planting Victory gardens. | 14 | |
| 5409127744 | 16th Amendment | Amendment to the United States Constitution (1913) gave Congress the power to tax income. | 15 | |
| 5409127745 | Liberty Loans | Bonds sold by the Treasury Department largely through propaganda campaigns, used to raise two thirds of the cost of the war. | 16 | |
| 5409127746 | Bernard Baruch | He headed the War Industries Board which placed the control of industries into the hands of the federal government. It was a prime example of War Socialism. | 17 | |
| 5409129486 | War Industries Board | Agency established during WWI to increase efficiency & discourage waste in war-related industries., Headed by Bernard Baruch, could order businesses to support war by building more plants, etc. | 18 | |
| 5409134456 | National War Labor Board | The board was a composition of representatives from business and labor designed to arbitrate disputes between workers and employers. It settled any possible labor difficulties that might hamper the war efforts. | 19 | |
| 5409134457 | Great Migration | Movement of over 300,000 African American from the rural south into Northern cities between 1914 and 1920. | 20 | |
| 5409138354 | National Women's Party | A militant feminist group led by Alice Paul that argued the Nineteenth Amendment was not adequate enough to protect women's rights. They believed they needed a more constitutional amendment that would clearly provide legal protection of their rights and prohibit sex-based discrimination. | 21 | |
| 5409138355 | 19th Amendment | Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections. | 22 | |
| 5409141347 | War Risk Insurance Act 1917 | The War Risk Insurance Act was a piece of legislation passed by the United States Congress in 1914 to ensure the availability of marine insurance during World War I. It established a Bureau of War Risk Insurance within the Treasury Department to provide insurance policies and pay claims. | 23 | |
| 5409143204 | Anti-Saloon league | Organization founded in 1893 that increased public awareness of the social effects of alcohol on society; supported politicians who favored prohibition and promoted statewide referendums in Western and Southern states to ban alcohol. | 24 | |
| 5409144867 | 18th Amendment | Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages. | 25 | |
| 5409144868 | George Creel | A journalists who was the head of the Committee of Public Information. He helped the anti-German movement as well as inspired patriotism in America during the war. | 26 | |
| 5409146467 | Committee on Public Information | It was headed by George Creel. The purpose of this committee was to mobilize people's minds for war, both in America and abroad. Tried to get the entire U.S. public to support U.S. involvement in WWI. Creel's organization, employed some 150,000 workers at home and oversees. He proved that words were indeed weapons. | 27 | |
| 5409148448 | Espionage Act 1917 | United States federal law passed shortly after entering World War I, on June 15, 1917, which made it a crime for a person to convey information with intent to interfere with the operation or success of the armed forces of the United States or to promote the success of its enemies. The legislation was passed at the urging of President Woodrow Wilson, who feared any widespread dissent in time of war, thinking that it constituted a real threat to an American victory. | 28 | |
| 5409150296 | Sedition Act 1918 | Added to Espionage Act to cover "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the American form of government, the Constitution, the flag, or the armed forces. | 29 | |
| 5409153097 | 14 points | Woodrow Wilson's peace plan, set out before war ended, helped bring it to and end because it helped Germans look forward to peace and be willing to surrender, was easy on the Germans punishment for war. Points included: people all over the world are to determine their own fate, (self-determination)no colonial powers grabbing nations, free trade, no secret pacts, freedom of the seas, arms reduction, creation of world organization/League of Nations. | 30 | |
| 5409153098 | League of Nations | A world organization established in 1920 to promote international cooperation and peace. It was first proposed in 1918 by President Woodrow Wilson, although the United States never joined the League. Essentially powerless, it was officially dissolved in 1946. | 31 | |
| 5409154581 | The Big Four | France- Clemenceau, England- David Lloyd George, U.S. - Woodrow Wilson, Italy- Vittorio Orlando. | 32 | |
| 5409154582 | Red Scare | A period during the Cold War where the American public was terrified of Communists and the spread of Communism. | 33 | |
| 5409156338 | A. Mitchell Palmer | Attorney General who rounded up many suspects who were thought to be un-American and socialistic; he helped to increase the Red Scare; he was nicknamed the "Fighting Quaker" until a bomb destroyed his home; he then had a nervous breakdown and became known as the "Quaking Fighter." | 34 | |
| 5409156339 | Palmer Raids | A 1920 operation coordinated by Attorney General Mitchel Palmer in which federal marshals raided the homes of suspected radicals and the headquarters of radical organization in 32 cities. | 35 | |
| 5409158325 | Federal Bureau of Investigation | investigates any violation of federal law not assigned to another agency; crimes under the jurisdiction of this bureau include: espionage, treason, kidnapping, bank robbery, many violations involving interstate transport of stolen goods, violations of the election laws, and assaulting or killing the President. | 36 | |
| 5409109600 | Sacco & Vanzetti | A controversial trial in 1920 charging two Italian anarchist immigrants with the robbing of a shoe factory and the killing of two men within, with the two men arrested several weeks later. Massive protests resulted with the overall opinion that the men were arrested because they were radical immigrants, and while appeals continued to be raised, they were sentenced to death in 1927. | 37 |
