Committee On Public Information --Bolsheviks

19th amendment

Gave women the right to vote in 1920

Herbert Hoover

President 1929-1933, leader of the food administration

18th amendment

Prohibition-banned the sale and drinking of alcohol in the us in 1919

Big Bill Haywood

Prominent figure in the American labor movement, he was a leader of the western federation of miners, a founding member and leader of the industrial workers of the world(IWW) and a member of the executive committee of the socialist party of America

Committee on public information

Propaganda committee that built support for the war effort in Europe among Americans and led to anti-German feelings in America

Bolsheviks

Radical Marxist political party founded by Vladimir Lenin in 1903 and under his leadership the Bolsheviks seized power in November of 1917 during the Russian revolution.

The Hun

A derogatory term used to describe Germans during World War One

Sedition act 1918

Added to the espionage act and deemed "disloyal,profane,scurrilous, or abusive language" about American government, constitution, flag, or armed forces as criminal and worthy of prosecution

Fuel administration

Encouraged Americans to save fuel with "heatless Mondays" and "gasless Sundays"

Food administration

Government agency headed by Herbert Hoover and was established to increase production of food and to ration food for the military

George Creel

Investigative journalist most famous for being the head of the United States committee on public information created by Woodrow Wilson

Espionage act 1917

Law passed on June 15, 1917 after the US entry into the war to punish acts of interference with foreign relations, and to punish people who aided enemies or refused military duty in World War One