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W.E.B. DuBois “We return…fighting” quote

African American soldiers returning from WWI determined to fight racism and inequality at home

Role of women during WWI

Many women worked as clerks, nurses, and drivers in the military

American beliefs in 1914

The US should remain neutral and avoid European wars

Cause of the Red Scare

Fear of communism and anarchism after the Russian Revolution

“Seeds of WWII were sown”

Treaty of Versailles and its harsh punishment of Germany

Goal of Wilson’s Fourteen Points

Create lasting peace and prevent future wars

Sussex Pledge

Germany promised not to attack passenger or merchant ships without warning

War Guilt Clause

Placed full responsibility for WWI on Germany

Spark that started WWI

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Country that entered war after Belgium invasion

Great Britain

Country that defended Serbia

Russia

Schlieffen Plan target

France

End of WWI on November 11, 1918

Armistice

Genocide committed by Ottoman Empire

Armenians

New weapons of WWI

Machine guns, poison gas, tanks, submarines, airplanes

Area between trenches

No Man’s Land

NOT part of Fourteen Points

Reparations from those guilty of starting the war

Committee on Public Information

Produced propaganda to build support for the war

How the US financed WWI

War bonds and taxes

Social change from WWI

Extensive Black migration to Northern cities

Espionage and Sedition Acts

Criticism of the government or war was illegal

American Expeditionary Force (AEF)

Broke the stalemate and helped Allies win

Wilson’s view of WWI entry

Chance to shape a new democratic world order

“Liberty cabbage” and “liberty sausage”

Anti-German sentiment and nationalism

Event that brought US into WWI

Unrestricted submarine warfare

Zimmerman Telegram

Germany proposed alliance with Mexico against the US