WWI - Ch 19

What actions led the US to enter WWI

Rising prices

Anarchists that were executed as a result of a botched burglary

He guided creation of the American Expeditionary Force & was the American commander over Europe

soldiers killed, wounded and missing

Wall Street investment broker that reported to President Wilson for the WIB

Fear that Communists were working to destroy the American way of life

Authorized the draft of men for military service

Archduke of Austria-Hungary

Passed by Congress in 1917 enacting severe penalties for engaging in disloyal behavior

German submarines

Loyalty and devotion to one's nation

How did American involvement help the Allies win WWI?

He rejected Wilson's ideas of the League of Nations & was elected on that point

A person whose moral or religious beliefs forbid him or her to fight in wars

A group of senators, led by Henry Cabot Lodge, who opposed the Treaty of Versailles, to end WWI

How did the decisions at the Paris Peace Conference violate the 14 points?

Supplies captured from an enemy during wartime

How did the rise of communism in the Soviet Union contribute to the Red Scare?

Why did the US become the leading economic power after WWI?

payments for war damages

British passenger liner sunk by a German U-boat

Movement of African Americans in the 20th Century form the rural south to the industrial north

How did nationalism & militarism both work to push Europe toward war?

group of merchant ships sailing together; protected by warships

glorification of the military

Government Agency created during WWI to encourage Americans to support the War

Why did both sides embrace trench warfare as a strategy to win the war?

How did the economic situation after the war lead to labor unrest?

flu virus that killed millions in 1918

A Republican foreign policy expert, that Wilson didn't agree with

World organization established after WWI to promote peaceful cooperation between countries

List of terms for resolving WWI & future wars outlined by President Wilson

German Emperor during WWI

Director of the CPI and was to sell America the war

What reservations did Henry Cabot Lodge & his followers have about the peace treaty?

Country which is owed more money by other countries than it owes other countries

Arrests made against suspected radicals & communists