American YAWP Chapters 21-22

Naval Act of 1916

What 1916 act was a major naval expansion bill passed to enlarge the U.S. fleet?

Machine guns and poison gas

What new military technologies defined the combat of World War I?

Neutrality

What was President Wilson's official policy for the United States at the start of World War I?

Munitions overload

What was the German justification for sinking the Lusitania?

Submarine warfare

What German actions were the final provocations that led the U.S. to enter World War I?

Zimmermann Telegram

What intercepted message proposed a German-Mexican alliance, further pushing the U.S. toward war?

Bolshevik Revolution

What was the name of the 1917 revolution that overthrew the Russian monarchy and led to Russia's exit from the war?

Selective Service Act

What 1917 act required all men between the ages of 21 and 30 to register for a military draft?

4.7 million

Approximately how many American men were ultimately drafted or volunteered for service in WWI?

Hello Girls

What was the nickname for the bilingual American women who served as crucial telephone operators for the AEF in France?

Britain, France, Russia

What were the three main countries of the Allied Powers (Triple Entente) at the start of the war?

Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire

What were the three main countries of the Central Powers (Triple Alliance) at the start of the war?

Liberty Loan Drives

What was the name of the government bond drives that raised money from American citizens to finance the war effort?

1918 Flu Pandemic

What was the name of the deadly global pandemic that killed millions worldwide, including 675,000 Americans, in 1918?

Fourteen Points

What was the name of President Wilson's postwar peace plan that called for open diplomacy, free trade, and a League of Nations?

Treaty of Versailles

What 1919 treaty officially ended World War I and imposed harsh penalties, including a "war guilt clause," on Germany?

Teapot Dome Scandal

The major scandal of the Harding administration involving the secret leasing of government oil reserves to private companies.

Albert Fall

Who was the Secretary of the Interior who was convicted and jailed for taking bribes in the Teapot Dome scandal?

Heart attack

What was the cause of President Warren G. Harding's death in 1923?

Model T

The affordable automobile, produced by Henry Ford using the assembly line, that revolutionized American transportation.

Tin Pan Alley

The center of the popular music publishing industry in New York City during the 1920s.

Picture Palaces

The term for the large, elaborately decorated movie theaters built in the 1920s that could seat thousands.

Flapper

The term for the "New Woman" of the 1920s, known for bobbed hair, short skirts, and challenging social norms.

Jazz

A uniquely American musical style that emerged from Black communities, particularly in New Orleans, and became popular in the 1920s.

Speakeasy

The name for the illegal bars and nightclubs that sold alcohol during the Prohibition era.

Great Migration

The mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to northern industrial cities during and after WWI.

Garveyism

The Pan-Africanist movement led by Marcus Garvey that promoted Black pride, economic independence, and the "Back to Africa" cause.

Emergency Immigration Act

What 1921 act first introduced numerical quotas to restrict immigration, limiting arrivals to 3% of a country's population in the U.S. as of 1910?

National Origins Act

What 1924 act made immigration quotas even stricter and more permanent, using the 1890 census to favor "old" immigrants?

Soap sponsors

Why were "soap operas" called that?