Chapter 28 - World War I (Slides 32-47)

Selective Service Act of May 1917 = ?

Selective Service Act of May 1917 = ?

Manpower needs could not be met with volunteers alone, the U.S. government needed to draft soldiers.

• Men 21 to 30 were drafted in the beginning.

• Toward the end of the war, men 18 to 45 were drafted.

The U.S. army possessed nearly 5 million soldiers by the end of the war.

• 3 million were draftees.

• 2 million were volunteers.

• 370,000 were Black Americans.

• Some women were included (as clerks and nurses).

Victory Gardens = ?

Boy Scouts and others planted gardens in their homes to conserve food rations.

Which president headed the Food Administration?

Herbert Hoover.

What foods would you give up and on which days of the week would you give them up?

• Wheat on Mondays and Wednesdays

• Meat on Tuesdays

• Pork on Thursdays and Saturdays

Liberty Loans = ?

Helped finance the war.

Trading with the Enemy Act = ?

The postmaster’s general censor of the exchange of foreign publications.

Sedition Act = ?

Curtailed free speech.

Espionage Act = ?

Forbade helping the enemy, trying to stop army recruitment, or inciting a revolution.

Dachshunds = ?

Liberty Dogs.

German Sheperds = ?

Shepherd Dogs.

Wilson caught what illness during the peace talks?

The Spanish Influenza.

The U.S. did not join the League of Nations because of what?

The Senate did not ratify the decision.

New European Nations:

• Poland, Czechoslovakia created from pieces of  Austria- Hungary, Germany and Russia

• Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia (Baltic States) and Finland created from Russia

• Yugoslavia (land of the Southern Slavs) from Serbia, Austro-Hungarian  provinces of Slovenia and Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina

• Austria loses South Tyrol and the rest of Venetia to Italy

• Germany has to return Alsace and Lorraine to France

Balfour Declaration = ?

Arthur Balfour of Great Britain issued this.

What did the Balfour Declaration do?

Permitted Jews to return to reclaim their homes, and Palestine (Israel) is set aside as a home for the Jews while Transjordan Palestine (Jordan) is set aside as a home for the Arabs.

How many people died from the 1918-1920 Spanish Influenza?

• 675,000 in the U.S.

• 20-50 million worldwide

An economic downturn occurred before the Roaring 20s due to what?

Inflation.

Demand Pull Inflation = ?

When demand is greater than supply.

People during the economic downturn wanted ______ _____.

^ Higher Wages

In 1919, _ thousand and _ hundred strikes occurred.

^ 3,600