Download WWI - STUDY GUIDE

WWI - STUDY GUIDE
TERMS/PEOPLE/IDEAS TO KNOW
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Treaty of Versailles, War Guilt Clause
Fourteen Points
Lusitania
Causes of WWI vs. Causes US entered the war (be able to differentiate)
Big 4
Selective Service Act (draft)
Casualty rates for WWI
Trench Warfare, Shell Shock
Zimmerman Note
People to Know:
Allied reaction to the 14 Points
Sykes Picot Agreement
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Woodrow Wilson
Russian Revolution
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Franz Ferdinand
19th Amendment
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Eugene Debs
League of Nations
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George Creel
Allied Nations
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Ho Chi Minh
Central Powers
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Sacco and Vanzetti
German Submarine Warfare
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A. Mitchell Palmer
Committee for Public Information/Creel Commission
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John Scopes
Bosnia
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William Jennings Bryan
US Senate opposing League of Nations
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Clarence Darrow
4 Principles of Wilsonianism
Sedition and Espionage Acts (be able to differentiate)
Schenck vs. US, Abrams vs. US
Private and Wilson loans to Allied nations
Ottoman Empire
Austro-Hungarian Empire
US war profiteering
Result of Germany’s colonies after WWI, Result of Ottoman Empire after WWI
Changing workplace role of women and African Americans during WWI
Jazz Age
Flappers
Scopes Monkey Trial
Great Migration
Chicago Race Riots
Immigration Quota Act of 1924
Palmer Raids
Essay Questions
ESSAY QUESTION TOPICS
1. US entrance into WWI
2. Civil Liberties during WWI
 Sedition Act
 Espionage Act
 Creel Commission
 Eugene Debs
 Labor disputes (and governmental reaction to them)
 Schenck vs. US
 Abrams vs. US
 Sacco and Vanzetti
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QUESTIONS
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What was the provoking incident of WWI?
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What was the Zimmerman Note?
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What happened in Russia in 1917?
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Which Amendment to the Constitution gives women the right vote? What year? How many years after African American men
were given the right to vote?
What was the name of the peace plan outlined by Woodrow Wilson prior to the end of WWI?
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What was the “War Guilt Clause?
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What 3 things did France get from Germany as a result of the Treaty of Versailles?
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In which house of Congress did the League of Nations get squashed?
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Who were the Allies?
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Who were the Central Powers?
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Why was Eugene Debs arrested and convicted during WWI?
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Did taxes on the wealthy increase or decrease during WWI?
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What were U-Boats?
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What mental effect did life in the trenches have on the soldiers?
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Who launched the US government’s Pro-WWI propaganda campaign?
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What 2 federal laws were created to outlaw criticism of the war, and to effectively limit free speech?
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For what 3 reasons did the US enter WWI?
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What Act of Congress and the President instituted a draft?
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Which nation suffered the least casualties during WWI?
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What was the Big 4, and what nations were part of the Big 4?
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Why did the US Senate reject the League of Nations?
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What were the 4 principles of Woodrow Wilson’s foreign policy (as expressed by him, not in his actions!)
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Which Vietnamese leader pleaded for his nation’s independence from France during the negotiations at Versailles?
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Which empire did the secretive Sykes Picot Agreement split between England and France?
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What did Woodrow Wilson do prior to US entrance into WWI which Germany considered an act of war (essentially breaking claims
to neutrality)?
Espionage Act or Sedition Act – which one banned “disloyal” speaking or writing which the government intended to persuade
people to avoid the draft?
Espionage Act or Sedition Act – which one banned “disloyal” speaking or writing against the US production of war materials?
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What ariel vehicle was widely used for the first time during WWI?
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How did the other 3 members of the Big 4 react to Wilson’s 14 Points plan?
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Who most benefited financially from WWI?
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BANKRUPT
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Why did the colonies of European nations feel betrayed by Wilson and the entire Treaty of Versailles?
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What happened to Woodrow Wilson when he was touring the US promoting the League of Nations?
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The power of the President – does it increase or decrease during wartime?
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What wasn’t the US public told about the Lusitania at the time it was sunk by the Germans?
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Briefly describe the militarism of Europe which helped lead to WWI? (What does the term mean?)
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Briefly describe the nationalism of Europe which helped lead to WWI? (What does the term mean?)
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What cause of WWI refers to a quest for colonies among European nations?
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Which attorney general deported thousands of people who he thought MAY be involved in anarchism?
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The mass migration of southern African americans to the north, especially to find work was called _______
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In which country did we dissolve their legislature when they did not declare war on Germany after we did?
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Which 2 anarchists were executed after being accused of murdering a paymaster?
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The Scopes Monkey Trial can be boiled down to Fundamentalism versus what branch of science?
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Who was the primary prosecuting attorney in the Scopes Monkey Trial?
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Which female anarchist was deported during the era of the Espionage and Sedition Acts of WWI?
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