Download Review for Test on WWI

Review for Test on WWI
HW: Study for Test
• US foreign Policy – remain neutral
• Immediate Cause – Assassination
of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
• Wilson’s Policy – remain neutral
• Causes: MANIA- Militarism,
Alliances, Nationalism,
Imperialism, Assassination
• US joined the Allied Powers
• It was called a world war because
many nations were involved in the
conflict
• US soldiers were called dough
boys.
• Tension between US and Germany
because of the Zimmerman Telegram and
Unrestricted Sub Warfare
• US changed its policy because of the
sinking of the Lusitania
• Americans helped by buying liberty bonds,
women replaced men's jobs,
wheatless/meatless days, victory garden
• Impact of US troops – helped to win the
war
• Expeditionary forces led by John Pershing
• Techniques used were trench warfare, new
technology
• Women helped by replacing men’s jobs,
assembled planes, drove trolley cars and
delivered mail, served as nurses
• Results – Germany is blamed, Wilson’s 14
pt. Plan, cost of war was high, US
recognized as World Power
• Wilson’s 14 points – was not accepted, included
freedom of the seas, no secret alliances, no
barriers to trade, League of Nations, peace
without victory
• Treaty of Versailles – blames Germany,
Germany had to pay reparations, League of
Nations, reduce military
• Zimmerman Note – Germany proposed a deal
with Mexico that if they helped in the War effort
they would gain their land that lost to the US
• Lusitania – British passenger ship that was
sunk, many people died, Caused the US to
join
• League of Nations – was proposed by
Wilson, US didn’t Join because congress
didn’t approve because we would be pulled
into future wars
Essay
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Social
Economic
Political
Changes that occurred in the US during World
War I
Essay
• Political
• Selective Service Act – draft
• Food Administration – regulated the food so
that there would be food for the soldiers.
• War Industries Board – regulating raw materials
Going from peace time economy to war time
economy.
Economic
• Liberty Bonds – raised money for war effort
• War Industries Board
Social
• Women – factory workers, delivered mail, trolley
car drivers
• African Americans – joined the war effort – put
in segregated units.
• Women rationed food – wheatless meatless
days, canned food