Chapter 18-1 Guided Reading Activity

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History 8 Name ______________________

Mr. Caprow Date ________________________

Pages 671 – 676

Directions: Defining Key Terms Using your textbook, define the following key terms.

propaganda

autocracy

Directions: Recalling the Facts Use the information in your textbook to answer the questions.

1. How did both the Allies and the Central Powers try to gain the support of Americans?

2. Whose propaganda was more effective in influencing Americans?

3. What made it difficult for the United States, a neutral nation, to trade with the

Central Powers?

4. How did a war in which the United States was not involved cause an economic boom for Americans?

5. What did Germany do in February 1915 to stop American economic assistance to Great Britain?

6. What British passenger liner was sunk by a German U-boat on May 7, 1915?

7. Why did Germany offer to compensate Americans injured when a German U-boat torpedoed the French passenger ship Sussex?

8. In 1916 what did some Americans see as a major step toward involvement in the war?

9. Why did President Woodrow Wilson break off diplomatic relations with Germany in January 1917?

10. What did newspapers publish on March 1, 1917, that set off a new wave of anti-German feeling in the United States?

11. What event in Russia led Wilson to claim that the Allies were fighting a war of democracy against autocracy?

12. When and why did Wilson ask Congress for a declaration of war against Germany?

13. Why did Congress pass the Selective Service Act on May 18, 1917?

14. Who was Henry Johnson?

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