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James Flagg | Poster Illustrator |
Jeannette Rankin | First US Congresswoman |
Herbert Hoover | Head of Food Adminstration |
Woodrow Wilson | US President |
Eugene Debs | Socialist Leader |
David Lloyd George | Prime Minister of Great Britain |
Arthur Zimmerman | German Foreign Minister |
Vittorio Orlando | Itialian Premier |
George Clemenceau | French Premier |
U-Boat | German Submarine |
Lusitania | British passenger ship |
William Jennings Bryan | US Secretary of State |
Zimmerman Telegram | Message sent from Germany to Mexico |
Pancho Villa | Lead raids of American towns |
Archduke Franz Ferdinand | Leader of Austria-Hungary that was murdered |
Allies (start of WWI) | Great Britain, France, Russia |
Central Powers (start of WWI) | Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy |
John J. Pershing | American General that lead the "doughboys" |
Selective Service Act | Required men to age 21-30 to register fo the draft |
Bolsheviks | group that overthrew the Russian gov't in 1917 |
Doughboys | name given to American troops |
April 6, 1917 | date that the US declared war on Germany |
November 11, 1918 | date that Germany agreed to armistice (cease-fire) |
Committee on Public Information (Creel Committee) | group in charge of raising American awareness about the war |
George M. Cohan | wrote patriotic songs including, "Over There" |
Uncle Sam | Figure used to depict the American Government |
Espionage and Sedition Acts of 1917 | forbade US citizens from criticizing the gov't war policy or hindering wartime directives |
Schenck vs. United States | Supreme Court ruled that should an individual's free speech present "clear and present danger" to others, the gov't could impose penalties |
War Industries Board | established to coordinate productions of supplies and munitions needed for the war |
Victory Gardens, Meatless Mondays, Wheatless Wednesdays, Daylight Savings Time | ways that Americans could participate at home in aiding the war effort |
$110 billion | total cost of WWI to the American public |
Income Tax | 16th Amendment to the Constitution which helped fund WWI |
Fourteen Points | Wilson's plan for world peace following WWI |
One | number of Wilson's Fourteen Points that were accepted by the Big 4 |
Big 4 | Wilson(US), George(Great Britain), Orlando(Italy), Clemenceau(France) |
Paris | location of the meeting of the Big 4 to determine the terms of peace |
Alsace and Lorraine | French territories returned by Germany after WWI |
League of Nations | Wilson's 14th Point that was accepted by the Big 4 but rejected by US Congress |
Henry Cabot Lodge | Republican leader of the Senate that strongly opposed the League of Nations |
Treaty of Versailles | document that was NOT ratified by the United States |