U.S.H chapter 16

President Wilson called for the creation of a "general association of nations" known as the

League of Nations.

The issue of Germany attacking civilian ships reached a crisis on May 7, 1915, when a submerged German submarine fired on the British passenger liner ____________________.

Lusitania

A new government agency, the Committee on Public Information, had the task of....

"SELLING" THE WAR TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

The need for women to work in factories during World War I began a trend toward women working outside the home that ...

DECLINED ONCE THE WAR ENDED.

President Wilson declared the United States to be neutral concerning the war in Europe, but in general, American public opinion favored the ____________________ rather than the Central Powers

Allied Powers

The Serbs, Bosnians, Croats, and Slovenes all lived in a region in southeastern Europe called the ____________________.

Balkans

The Triple Entente included

Britain, France, and Russia.

In November 1917, Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik Party seized power in Russia and established a

Communist government.

The Red Scare was a nationwide panic that arose from the fear that ...

Communists might seize power in the United States.

Critics of the League of Nations feared that it might supersede the power of ____________________ to declare war and thus force the United States to fight in numerous foreign conflicts.

Congress

One of the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles was that ___________________ must admit its guilt in causing World War I.

Germany

In World War I, the Central Powers included

Germany and Austria-Hungary.

Perhaps the most successful government agency during this time was the Food Administration, which was run by

Herbert Hoover

To help prevent strikes from disrupting the war effort, the government established the ...

NATIONAL WAR LABOR BOARD

By 1871 after launching a series of wars, the German kingdom of ____________________ had united various German states into one nation.

Prussia

German submarines that attacked ships bound for Britain were called ____________________.

U-Boats

The War Industries Board worked TO COORDINATE THE PRODUCTION OF...

WAR MATERIALS.

__________________________ sentiments of returning to normalcy struck a chord with voters, and he won the election of 1920 with a landslide margin.

WARREN G. HARDING'S

What two new forms of warfare were introduced during World War I?

aerial combat and gas attacks

World War I saw the first use of ____________________ in combat, first as a way to observe enemy actions and later to drop small bombs.

airplanes

In addition to the soldiers returning from Europe who needed to find employment, many African Americans who had moved north were competing for jobs and housing, which resulted in

race riots.

During World War I, women officially served in the armed forces for the first time in

clerical and nursing positions.

To conserve energy, the Fuel Administration shortened workweeks for factories that did not make war materials and introduced

daylight savings time.

In World War I, __________ were battles in the air between aircraft with attached machine guns.

dogfights

President Wilson's plan for peace was known as the ____________________ Points and was based on "the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities."

fourteen

In the case Schenck v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled that

freedom of speech could be curbed in wartime.

What was used to defend soldiers against the use of mustard gas and chlorine bombs during World War I?

gas masks

According to the Zimmermann telegram, if Mexico allied with Germany, Germany would

help Mexico regain Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona.

Americans often linked radicalism with

immigrants.

One reason for the tension between the European powers was their intense pride in their homelands, called

nationalism.

In the aftermath of World War I, unions in Seattle

organized a general strike.

In April 1915, the Germans first used ____________________ gas.

poison

The organization that became the Federal Bureau of Investigation was originally formed to

raid radical headquarters looking for evidence of a Communist conspiracy.

To help fund the war effort, Congress ...

raised income tax rates.

After the war, people raced to buy goods that had been rationed, while businesses rapidly raised prices they had been forced to keep low during the war. This resulted in

rapid INFLATION.

The Palmer Raids were in response to a series of bombs and

rising tension due to The Red Scare.

Realizing a draft was necessary, Congress created a new system of conscription called

selective service.

One of the largest strikes in American history began when steel workers went on strike for recognition of their union, higher pay, and

shorter hours.

The event that touched off the first declaration of war in World War I was

the assassination of the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary.

Who walked off the job in Boston in what was perhaps the most famous strike of 1919?

the police force.