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| List 4 things the U.S. did to overcome the obstacles of building ships during WWI |
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1.Exempted shipworkers from draft
2.Chamber of commerce joined public relations campaigne
3.Fabrication techniques
4.Government took over commercial & private ships |
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| What was the convoy system? |
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| A heavy gaurd of destroyers escorted merchant ships back & forth across the Atlantic in groups |
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| What was the purpose of laying a barrier of mines in the North Sea? |
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| To bottle up the U-boats that sailed from German ports & keep the, out of the Atlantic ocean |
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| Who was the commander of the American Expeditionary Forces? |
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| Why were the Americans called the "dough boys"? |
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| the white belts they wore |
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| Who was one of America's greatest war heroes of WWI? |
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| What is a "conscientious objector"? |
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| A person who opposes warfare on moral grounds |
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| How many Germans did York kill by himself and how many did he capture with the help of 6 dough boys? |
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| What was the "Big Bertha" and how far could it hurl an 1800 pound shell? |
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| What was a zeppelin & what was it used for? |
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| How many rounds of ammunition could a machine gun spray per minute? |
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| What type of gas did the Germans use ad what did that bring about as standard equitment? |
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| What were the 2 most innovative weapons of war? |
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| List 9 things the men endures that led to medical problems during WWI |
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1.Filth
2.Lice
3.Rats
4.Polluted water
5.Poison gas
6.Decaying bodies
7.Lack of sleep
8.Shell Shock
9.Fatigue |
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| What was "trench foot" and what was the cause of it? |
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Definition
toes would rot
standing in cold wet trenches for long periods of time w/o changing socks |
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| When did Germany agree to cease fire that ended the war? |
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What was the main regulatory body the U.S. used during WWI.
Name 4 things the board did |
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War industries board
1.Mass production
2.Standardizing Products
3.Allocated raw materials
4.Pschological test |
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Name 2 things people volenteered to do to help conserve fuel durings WWI.
What did the fuel administration introduce as a conservation measure that is still used today? |
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1.Gasless Sundays
2.Lightless nights
Daylight savings time |
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Who was placed in charge of the food administration board and what did his campaighn call for?
Name the types of days that he called for |
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Herbert Hoover
Gospel of the clean plate
Meatless,sweetless,wheatless,porkless |
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| What was result of the things the Food Administration Board did? |
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Definition
| American food shipments to allies tripled income increase 30% |
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| 3 ways the U.S. financed WWI |
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Definition
| tax on tobacco, liquor, & luxury goods |
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| Who was the head of the Committee on the Public Information and what did they create? |
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George Creel
thousands of paintings,posters,cartoons, & scultings promoting war |
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| What does the Great Migration refer to? |
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| Large scale movement of hundreds of thousands of southern black to cities in the North |
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| What was Wilson's plan for peace called? |
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| What did Wilsons 14th point call for? |
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| Name 4 things the Treaty of Versailles required Germany to do |
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Definition
1.Establish 9 new nations
2. Shifted the boundaries of the other nations
3.Barred Germany from maintaining an army
4.Germany pay reperations |
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| Who was Wilson's biggest opponent to the League of Nations? |
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| Did the United States ever join the League of Nations? |
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