Nash Chapter 22: The Great War (WWI) Flashcards

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