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23-4 history
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8th Grade
01/03/2007

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Term
What is the gathering of resources and the prearation of war?
Definition
mobilization
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In April1918 what did the government create to ensure protection of vital war materials?
Definition
National War Labor Board
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What organization granted workers an eight hour working day, extra pay for overtime, equal pay for women, and the right to form unions if the workers promised not to go in strike again?
Definition
National War Labor Board
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When the men went off to WWI and the US needed to expand its industies who took their jobs?
Definition
women and minority
Term
What two ethnic backrounds worked in many industries taking the mens jobs?
Definition
African Americans and Mexicans
Term
How much money did WWI cost the US?
Definition
$32 Billion
Term
Two thirds of the money for the war was from what?
Definition
Liberty Bonds
Term
What is another way the US got the money for WWI?
Definition
taxes
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Who did President Wilson appoint to help organize food for war refugees in Europe to head a new food Food Administration?
Definition
Herbert Hoover
Term
What did Hubert Hoover head?
Definition
Food Administration
Term
What agency launched a campaign to encourage American farmers to produce more and to pursuade the public to eat less? For example, "Wheatless Mondays", "Meatless Tuesdays", "Porkless Thursdays", "Serve Just Enough", and "Use All Leftovers". They also supp
Definition
Food Administration
Term
What is a limitation of use?
Definition
rationing
Term
What government agency supervised the nation's industrial production?
Definition
War Industries Board
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What board's responsibilities included converting factories to the production of war-related goods and setting prices for key consumer products?
Definition
War Industries Board
Term
Who did President Wilson appoint to head the Comittee on the Public information?
Definition
George Creel
Term
What committee was to persuade Americans that the war represented a battle for democract and freedom?
Definition
Committee on Public Information
Term
What distributed millions of pro-war pamphlets, posters, articles, and books?It provided newspapers with government accounts of the war and advertisements. It arranged short 4minute speeches to be presented before plays and movies. The committee hired spe
Definition
Commitee on Public Information
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What is opposition?
Definition
dissent
Term
Did WWI decrease American economy?
Definition
No - Increase
Term
How many African Americans between 1914 - 1920 fled to the Northern cities to seek jobs?
Definition
300,000 - 500,000
Term
What was the tremendous population movement called?
Definition
Great Migration
Term
Was their racial prejudice in the North?
Definition
yes
Term
Where was the worse race riot in the US during WWI? A white mob attacked an African American neighborhood, burnin houses and firing on residents as they tried to escape. 40,000 African Americans died. It was in July 1917.
Definition
East St. Louis, Illinois
Term
Who opposed the war because they thought it would only help rich business owners hurt working people?
Definition
socialists
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Who did some German Americans and Irish people sympathize?
Definition
Central Powers
Term
Who were people opposed to the use of violence?
Definition
pacifists
Term
What did congress pass in 1917 that gave the government a new weapon to combat dissent to the war? It provided stiff penalties for spying.
Definition
The Espionage Act
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What is spying also called?
Definition
espionage
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What laws made it a crime to say, print, or write almost anything percieved as negative about the government?
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Sabotage Act and The Sedition Act
Term
What is secret action to damage the war effort?
Definition
sabotage
Term
Were Americans suspicious of German Americans?
Definition
yes
Term
What were people who didn't believe in the war called?
Definition
unpatriotic
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