US History – Chapter 19 Study Guide
World War I
Section 1: World War I Begins
· 4 Causes of World War I
· Significance of assassination of Archduke of Austria-Hungary
· Allied Powers
· Central Powers
· Schlieffen Plan – what it was and why it didn’t work
· “no man’s land” and trench warfare
· Western Front
· Reasons why the US stayed neutral in the beginning
· How the war affected the US economy (overall)
· which countries we were naturally sympathetic to
· U-Boats
· Biased information/propaganda
· Lusitania
· Zimmerman Note
· Sussex Pledge and its violation
· Russian Revolution
Section 2: American Power Tips the Balance
· Preparedness of the American military when we declared war
· Selective Service Act
· African Americans in the war
· Convoy system
· America’s effect on the war in Europe
· American Expeditionary Force
· New weapons
· “shell shock”
· Russia withdraws from the war – effect on German war effort
· Second Battle of the Marne
· Armistice
· Effects of the War
Section 3: The War at Home
· Role of federal government in the economy (overall)
· War Industries Board
· World War I and factory wages
· Rationing
· Victory gardens
· paying for the war
· Liberty Bonds
· Committee of Public Information
· Propaganda
· Immigrants targeted in WWI
· Espionage and Sedition Acts
· Vigilantes
· Great Migration
· W.E.B. Du Bois’ stance on WWI
· William Trotter’s stance on WWI
· Flu Epidemic
· 19th Amendment
· Schenck v US
Section 4: Wilson Fights For Peace
· Wilson’s 14 Points
· Idea of self-determination
· League of Nations
· Georges Clemenceau
· David Lloyd George
· who was absent from the Peace Conference
· Versailles Treaty
· France’s role in the Peace Treaty
· War Guilt Clause
· Reparations
· How the US responded to the Peace Treaty
· Reservationists
· Irreconcilables
· The Legacy of the War
** Years:
· War started
· US joined
· Armistice
· Officially ended
· US signed the Peace Treaty