Chapter 23: Americans and the Great War, 1914-1919

In the 23.4 “My Story” article, Sgt. Charles Leon Boucher recounts

trench warfare

Figure 23.9 showed government propaganda to

unify all Americans behind the war, including immigrants

The Eighteenth Amendment did what?

prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of intoxicating liquors

President Wilson utilized which act to increase the number of American soldiers?

Selective Service Act

Which immigrant group faced a backlash and discrimination during World War I?

German

The last Progressive cause to achieve success in 1920 was

women's suffrage

At the Paris Peace Conference, which Woodrow Wilson-proposed idea did other world leaders embrace?

League of Nations

The U.S. Senate did NOT ratify the Treaty of Versailles and opposed

Article X

Although Woodrow Wilson espoused an idealistic foreign policy based on morality, he sent American troops into all the countries listed EXCEPT

Colombia

To show patriotism and pay for the war, the government campaigned for the people to do what?

buy liberty bonds

World War I or the Great War started when

a Serbian nationalist assassinated the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Franz Ferdinand

During the war, African Americans

moved from the South to northern cities, part of Great Migration

During the war, women found new opportunities in which industries?

railroads and factories

Which new laws suppressed freedom of speech and dissent against the war?

Sedition and Espionage Acts

Figure 23.21 highlights the Red Scare and communist infiltration of what?

labor unions

With the end of World War I, the 1920 election of which Republican brought a “Return to Normalcy”?

Warren G. Harding

The Triple Alliance (also known as the Central powers) included

Austria-Hungary, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire

Domestically, race riots broke out where?

Chicago, 1919 and Tulsa, 1921

I was created to rally support for the Great War (World War I), George Creel created a multimedia public relations campaign. Eat a “liberty dog,” no frankfurters here. What am I?

Committee on Public Information (CPI)

After Germany sank the Lusitania, President Woodrow Wilson responded with

a policy of neutrality

The United States was NOT a member of which multi-national organization?

League of Nations

The Great War (World War I) introduced devastating new military weapons in the form of

U-boats (submarines) and poison gas

Which U.S. Supreme Court case defined the “clear and present danger” doctrine?

Schenck v. United States

Triple Entente

France, Great Britain, and Russia

Triple Alliance 

Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire

Woodrow Wilson

League of Nations and Fourteen Points

Henry Cabot Lodge

led opposition to Treaty of Versailles

Farmeretts 

women who took over agricultural enterprises and farms

Harlem Hellfighters

segregated black unit who fought in France

In addition to Great Britain, U.S. allies in the Triple Entente included

Russia

During World War I, Congress expanded the powers of the presidency and the Wilson administration made which change that is still with us today?

daylight saving time

Which key events moved President Woodrow Wilson from neutrality to war?

• Zimmerman telegram

• the return to unrestricted German U-Boat attacks in 1917

• U.S. economic and cultural ties to Great Britain