Study Guide

Honors US History

Chapter 9

  1. President Wilson’s peace plan was known as the Fourteen Points.
  2. To prevent strikes from disrupting the war effort, the government established the National War Labor Board.
  3. The Triple Entente included Britain, France, and Russia.
  4. The event that touched off the first declaration of war in World War I was the assassination of the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary.
  5. World War I was the first war in which women officially served in the armed forces.
  6. To conserve energy during World War I, the Fuel Administration introduced daylight savings time.
  7. The Great Migration during World War I was the flow of African Americans moving from the South to Northern cities.
  8. The “Big Four” who attended the peace conference at the end of World War I were the leaders from the United States, Britain, France, and Italy.
  9. In the case Schenck v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled that freedom of speech could be curbed in wartime.
  10. The press pressed for more strenuous efforts at detecting and punishing disloyalty.
  11. At the start of World War I, the Triple Alliance included Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.
  12. In 1908 the Serbs became furious when Austria-Hungary annexed Bosnia.
  13. According to the Zimmermann telegram, if Mexico allied with Germany, Germany would help Mexico regain Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona.
  14. According to the Selective Service Act, the order in which men were called to service was determined by lottery.
  15. “Selling” the war to the American people was the task of the Committee on Public Information.
  16. Criticism of the war at home was effectively silenced by the Espionage and Sedition Acts.
  17. In World War I, airplanes were first used to observe enemy activities.
  18. The organization that became the Federal Bureau of Investigation was originally formed to raid radical headquarters looking for evidence of a Communist conspiracy.
  19. According to President Wilson, war should be declared because German submarine attacks had killed innocent people.
  20. The British entered World War I when German troops crossed into Belgium.
  21. In World War I, dogfights were battles in the air between aircraft with attached machine guns.
  22. Contraband was goods prohibited from shipment to Germany or its allies.
  23. Propaganda was information designed to influence opinion.
  24. The Sussex Pledge was a promise not to sink more merchant ships without warning.
  25. Four-Minute Men gave patriotic speeches urging support of the war effort.
  26. The Black Hand was the Serbian nationalist group behind the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand.
  27. Buying Liberty Bonds was a method of loaning money to the government to pay for the war.
  28. Espionage was spying to acquire government secrets.
  29. Ferdinand Foch was the supreme commander of the Allied forces.
  30. Vladimir Lenin was the Bolshevik leader.
  31. Bernard Baruch was a stockbroker who led the War Industries Board.