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History Notes: U.S. Enters WWI
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11th Grade
10/08/2013

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Who is the president of the U.S. at this time who believed in Democracy?
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Woodrow Wilson
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Mexico sent _____ to New Mexico to capture Panchp Villa and return him to Mexico?
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Pancho Villa
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Woodrow Wilson sent _____ to New Mexico to capture Pancho Villa and return him to Mexico?
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John J. Pershing
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What were the main causes of WWI?
Definition
M.A.I.N.
Term
What does M.A.I.N stand for?
Definition
  • Militarism
  • Alliances
  • Imperialism
  • Nationalism (Balkan Crisis)
Term
Great Britain and Germany were in a?
Definition
Arms Race
Term
These countries formed the triple alliance?
Definition
  • ottoman empire
  • Germany
  • austria'hungary
  • Italy
Term
What country was the last counrty to join the triple alliance?
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Italy
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These countries made up the triple entente?
Definition
  • Great Britain
  • France
  • Russia
Term
The people of the Balkans believe?
Definition
Self-Determination
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Define self determination?
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Ideal that people who belong to a nation should have their own country and government
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In the Balkans this country was the first to gain its independence?
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Serbia
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The black hands assinated the furture leader of Austria by the name of ?
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Franz Ferdinand
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Serbia because Austria did not let countries leave the Balkans sent this group to kill Franz Ferdinand?
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Black hands
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In World War I Austria declared war against ?
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Serbia
Term
In World War I Germany declared war against?
Definition
  • Russia
  • France
Term
The allies use to be?
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The triple entente
Term
The central alliance use to be the ?
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Triple alliance
Term
These countries form the allies?
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  • Great Britain
  • France
  • Russia
  • Italy
Term
The central alliance is made up of these countries?
Definition
  • Germany
  • Austria
  • Ottoman Empire
  • Bulgaria
Term
In the marne these two countries due to trench warfare end the battle in a stalemate?
Definition
  • France 
  • Germany
Term
Why does the US remain neutral?
Definition
  • British propganda
  • We were giving the allies money
Term

Who declared America neutral, he is

 the only person that can do this?

Definition
The President Woodrow Wilson
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German U boats blow up the ________________,a British cruise ship containing one hundred twenty eight American passengers, this upset America?
Definition
Lusitania
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When Germany sank the Lusitania the US made them sign the _______________, to make Germany give a warning before sinking ships?
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Sussex pledge
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This German official sent a telegram to Mexico asking them to become their allies?
Definition
Arthur Zimmerman
Term
The Zimmerman telegram stated?
Definition
If Mexcio became Germany's ally they would help them regain lost territory from America
Term
What happened April 6, 1917?
Definition
The US declares war on Germany
Term
Germany sank how many US merchant ships without warning?
Definition
6
Term
Defined Conscription?
Definition
Forced military service
Term
The selective service made what legal?
Definition
Conscription
Term
The selcetive service act choose people age __________to ___________by lottery?
Definition
21 to 30
Term
The military needed to ?
Definition
Recruit more troops
Term
Women work in the war as the following careers but was not allowed to go over seas?
Definition
  • Chemists
  • Pharmacists
  • Radio Operators
  • Torpedo assemblers
  • Electricians
  • Photographers
  • Desk jobs
Term
What military role could women hold the allowed them to go overseas?
Definition
Nurses
Term
Women taking on jobs help the military by?
Definition
Allowing men to go into combat
Term
Wilson agrees that the goverment?
Definition
Should not control the economy
Term
Bussinesses and Corporations did what?
Definition
Work together
Term
The war industries board was lead by ?
Definition
Bernard Baruch
Term
Herbert Hoover was in charge of the _______?
Definition
Food administration
Term
The food administration works to ?
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Conserve food
Term
Victory gardens were a way of?
Definition
conserving food
Term
The fuel administration worked to ?
Definition
Conserve coal and oil
Term
The fuel administraion introduced this ?
Definition
Daylight savings time
Term
We spent $44 million dollars a day during World War I totaling up to ?
Definition
$32 billion dollars
Term
The US raised taxes to ?
Definition
Get money for the War
Term
In World War I US earned $20 billion dollars from ?
Definition
Liberty and Victory bonds
Term
National war labor board helped to ?
Definition
Kept factories working hard so that they could support the war effort
Term
Mexicans and Afican Americans went north to get jobs during the ?
Definition
Great migration
Term
Women, Mexicans, Afican Americans all faced what while working in factories ?
Definition
Discrimination
Term
The committee on public information used pamphlets and speeches to ?
Definition
Get americans to believe in the war
Term
The espionage act forced people to ?
Definition
Report spies and suspected spies
Term
The sedition act made it where ?
Definition
civilians could not talk bad about or reveal information on the war
Term
People had negative feelings toward who in World War I in American ?
Definition
Germans
Term
In the case of Schneck vs United States ?
Definition
The people's individual freedom of speech had become limited by the ideal that you cant falsely convey danger
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