108354379 | Pancho Villa | Mexican revolutionary leader (1877-1923) Did many good things, but killed a lot of people. Wanted to take money from the rich and give it to the poor. | 0 | |
108354380 | Emiliano Zapata | leading figure in the Mexican Revolution, which lasted 10 years; 1910-1920; faught for farmers' rights; gathered army in southern Mexico and urged farmers to join; Liberation Army of the South | 1 | |
108354381 | Mexican Revolution | >Diaz was president for more than 30 years >Madero wins over Diaz in 1910 election (democrat) >Huerta seizes control in 1913, killing Madero >Wilson refuses to recognize Huerta as a leader | 2 | |
108354382 | World War I Causes | Imperialism, Militarism, Nationalism, and Alliances. Serbian fanatic Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Ferdinand. | 3 | |
108354383 | Reasons for U.S. entering World War I | sinking of the Lusitania; German's constant use of unrestricted submarine warfare, the Zimmerman note; German's attempt at making an alliance with Mexico, naval blockade of France and Britain; would hurt the U.S. economy. | 4 | |
108354384 | Germany's rise to power | Their militant leader Kaiser Wilhelm. Stimulated Austra-Hungary to start a war with Serbia. | 5 | |
108354385 | President Wilson | 28th President of the United States led the United States in World War I and secured the formation of the League of Nations (1856-1924) and its 14 points, Wilson worked for banking reform and tariff ( tax ) changes, helped pass the 16th amendment and the Federal Reserve Act | 6 | |
108354386 | Fourteen Points | the war aims outlined by President Wilson in 1918, which he believed would promote lasting peace; called for self-determination, freedom of the seas, free trade, end to secret agreements, reduction of arms and a league of nations | 7 | |
108354387 | German U-Boats | boat that can go underwater without being seen. led to conflict b/c the uboats torpedoed ships and killed american passengers; Lusitania, Arabic, and Sussex are three examples | 8 | |
108354388 | Paris Peace Conference | The great rulers and countries excluding germany and Russia met in Versailles to negotiate the repercussions of the war, such leaders included Loyd George (Britain), Woodrow Wilson (America), Cleamancu (France) and Italy. The treaty of Versailles was made but not agreed to be signed and the conference proved unsuccessful. | 9 | |
108354389 | 1916 Election | Democrat: Wilson, Republican: Hughes, war was the major issue, wilson won "he kept us out of war" ( Wilson slogan) "Peace without victory" speech ( jan 1917) | 10 | |
108354390 | African Americans in WWI | A component, but not a major one as they only were seen in non-combat support units. | 11 | |
108354391 | Henry Cabot Lodge | Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he was a leader in the fight against participation in the League of Nations | 12 | |
108354392 | Isolationists | people who wanted the United States to stay out of world affairs | 13 | |
108354393 | Nationalists | a member of a political group advocating or fighting for national independence, a strong national government, etc. | 14 | |
108354394 | War Guilt Clause | in treaty of Versailles; declared germany and austria responsible for WWI; ordered Germany to pay reparation to Allied powers | 15 | |
108354395 | American Expeditionary Force | About 2 million Americans went to France as members of this under General John J. Pershing. Included the regular army, the National Guard, and the new larger force of volunteers and draftees and they served as individuals | 16 | |
108354396 | Schenk vs. US | US Supreme Court decision upholding the war time espionage and sedition acts in the opinion he wrote for the case, justice Oliver Wendell Holmes set the now familiar clear and present danger standard | 17 | |
108354397 | Article X | This part of the Versailles Treaty morally bound the U. S. to aid any member of the League of Nations that experienced any external aggression. | 18 | |
108354398 | 1920 Election | Democrats nominate James M. Cox Republican's candidate was Warren G. Harding, | 19 | |
108354399 | Wilson's Faults | Failed to include Republicans when choosing the American peace delegation. | 20 | |
108354400 | Industrial Workers of the World | Founded in 1905, this radical union, also known as the Wobblies aimed to unite the American working class into one union to promote labor's interests. It worked to organize unskilled and foreign-born laborers, advocated social revolution, and led several major strikes. Stressed solidarity. | 21 | |
108354401 | Liberty Loan Drives | Treasury Dept bond-selling drives that raised about $21 billion to finance the American war effort | 22 | |
108354402 | Lodge reservations | Sen. Lodge accepts Treaty of Versailles but wants to "republicanize" it by adding in a bunch of reservations, 14 to be exact, safeguarding US under Monroe Doctrine to protect US sovereignty | 23 | |
108354403 | Meuse-Argonne | Climatic final battle of World War I | 24 | |
108354404 | "solemn referendum" | Wilson's proposed method of appealing to the people on the topic of the treaty in the presidential campaign of 1920 | 25 | |
108354405 | William Borah | a progressive Republican, and a prominent Republican attorney and longtime United States Senator from Idaho noted for his oratorical skills and isolationist views; In an attempt to revitalize the progressive wing of the Republican Party, in 1936 a 71-year-old Borah ran for President of the United States, becoming the first Idahoan to do so. Borah's candidacy was opposed by the conservative Republican leadership and dismissed by Roosevelt | 26 | |
108354406 | Ludlow, Colorado | Where state police killed striking miners and their families. | 27 | |
108354407 | East St. Louis, Illinois | Site of one of the largest World War I-era race riots. | 28 | |
108354408 | Schlieffen Plan | Attack plan by Germans, proposed by Schliffen, lightning quick attack against France. Proposed to go through Belgium then attack France, Belgium resisted, other countries took up their aid, long fight, used trench warfare. | 29 | |
108354409 | Convoy system | the protection of merchant ships from U-boat-German submarine-attacks by having the ships travel in large groups escorted by warships | 30 |
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