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| 1204277150 | What was the significance of Theodore Roosevelt and Leonard Wood in preparing for the war? | The led a movement to inspire young men to join. Wood established a camp in Plattsburgh, NY to get college and well-to-do young men ready to lead | |
| 1204277151 | List the 5 major types of Americans who supported the central powers. | German-Americans, Austrian-Americans, Irish-Americans, Swedish-Americans, and American Scholars who thought highly of German culture | |
| 1204277152 | Why did many Americans support the Allies? | GB because of the English language and France because of the French and Indian War and the Statue of Liberty. | |
| 1204277153 | _________ with the allies was more important | Trade | |
| 1204277154 | list 3 new military technologies | airplanes, tanks, machine guns, poisonous gas, improved explosives, incendiary shells, smokeless bullets, tracer bullets, hand radios | |
| 1204277155 | Wilson thought that American neutrality would give us a say in ________ | peace | |
| 1204277156 | Wilson wanted a world of _______and ideas | free trade | |
| 1204277157 | list the 2 major reasons the US could not avoid war. | there was an inability to stay neutral and Wilson wanted a say in the peace talks. | |
| 1204277158 | the outbreak ov war in Europe sparked an __________ | economic panic | |
| 1204277159 | Wilson closed the ___________ on july 31, 1914 in order to prevent ______________ dealing with those nations at war | stock market, a dumping of stocks | |
| 1204277160 | US banks were engcouraged _______ give loans to belligerant nations | not to | |
| 1204277161 | GB put on an illegal _______ and US ships carrying goods to _______nations were blocked | blockade, neutral | |
| 1204277162 | Central powers trade __________, while Allies powers trade _____________ | decreased, increased | |
| 1204277163 | the US also loaned money to _____ and _____ | GB and France | |
| 1204277164 | Gernany used ________ to try to gain back the power of the seas taken by GB. These were also deemed illegal by 19th century law that demanded a warning to be issued before the sinking of a ship | U-boats | |
| 1204277165 | Feb 14, 1915 Germany announced a submarine _________ around _______ until they stopped starving Germnay to death. | blockade, GB | |
| 1204277166 | After March 15, 1915 when an american was killed by a U-boat sinking a British ship to Africa, Sec of State _____________________ urged Wilson to suggest Americans not ride on British ships. | William Jennings Bryan | |
| 1204277167 | the Lusitania: ___ Americans died of about _____. The ship sank in __ minutes | 128, 1,200, 18 | |
| 1204277168 | Wilson sent a series of _______ demanding reparation for the loss of American lives as well as a pledge from Germany that it would cease attacking ocean liners without warning | Protest notes | |
| 1204277169 | Bryan ________ over the issue of Wilson's protest notes | resigned | |
| 1204277170 | The British steamer, The Arabic sank killing __ Americans. In the Arabic Pledge, _______________________________ | 2, Germany promised to stop attacking ocean liners without warning | |
| 1204277171 | The National Security League: tried to get Americans __________ for ____ | ready, war | |
| 1204277172 | On November 4, 1915, Wilson asked _____ for an ___________ and reorganized _____ | congress, enlarged, Army | |
| 1204277173 | The Army Reorganization Bill was signed in June, ____ and _________ the army to just over 200,000 | 1916, increased | |
| 1204277174 | the Sussex Pledge promised not to sink merchant or passenger ships ___________________ | without giving warning | |
| 1204277175 | a significant number of americans _________ want to go to war | did not | |
| 1204277176 | Keatings-Owen Bill: prohibited the shipment of products made by ________ from state to state | children | |
| 1204277177 | Federal Farm Loan Act: created __ Federal Farm Loan banks to extend more credit to _______ | 12, farmers | |
| 1204277178 | Adamson Act: established an __-hour working day for railway workers | 8 | |
| 1204277179 | the major foreign policy issue for Wilson in 1916 was _________________ | freedom of the seas | |
| 1204277180 | Lenin predicted that communism would soon ________________ | dominate the globe | |
| 1204277181 | During WWI the _____________________ used propaganda to persuade the American people that the US was fighting for freedom and democracy against barbaroous nations and that buying _____ was important to support the war effort because a German invasion of the US was a possibility. | Committee on public information, bonds | |
| 1204277182 | The Committee on Public Information was headed by __________ | George Creel | |
| 1204277183 | the ____________ Act provided the imprisonment of up to __ years or a fine of up to $______ or both for people who aided the enemy or for any disloyalty whatsoever | Espoinage, 20, 10,000 | |
| 1204277184 | Schenk v. United States upheld the ___________ and prompted Oliver Wendell Holmes to professed that the limiting of the right of free speech could be done when it represented "__________" | Espoinage Ace, clear and present danger | |
| 1204277185 | trench warfare proved to be very _______ | deadly | |
| 1204277186 | The _____________ Act of 1917 coosted taxes sharply, increasing estate taxes, and pleased the progressives | War Revenue | |
| 1204277187 | Great rates of _______helped the government finance the war | inflation | |
| 1204277188 | the Food Administration was headed by _________ | Herbert Hoover | |
| 1204277189 | the ______________________ worked to prevent the exploitation of women and children and to ensure safe hours and good wages | War Labor Board | |
| 1204277190 | ____________________ and the conservative labor wing were supported by Wilson and the Justice Department | Samuel Gompers | |
| 1204277191 | The most powrful man in the Senate_____________ and any Republicans were conspicuously missing from the Paris Peace Conference | Henry Cabot Lodge | |
| 1204277192 | List the four major postwar problems | Demobilization slowed the economy, red scare, labor conflicts, race riots | |
| 1204277193 | ________ was an advisor the Wilson, Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower | Bernard Baruch |
