World War 1 (2)
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- "peace without victory"
- President Wilson
- The US should declare war on Germany because....
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*Americans outraged by German submarine warfare
*Americans favor Britian & France
*Zimmermann telegram angered Americans
*American trade with Allies growing - The US shouldn't declare war on Germany because....
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*US has tradition of neutrality
*Americans sympathize with Central Powers
*Wilson opposes alliance with Russian czar
*Pacifists oppossed to joining war - He wrote the Zimmermann telgram becuase
- (Arthur Zimmermann) wanted Mexico to attack the US if the US declared war on Germany
- Jeanette Rankin was the first woman
- to be elected to Congress
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The Selective Service Act was passed because...
and required... -
...US needed to enlarge its forces
...all men from ages 21-30 to register for the military draft - 25% of soldiers were unable to read or write
- illiterate
- a system of managing government through departments run by appointed officials
- A bureaucracy is
- The head of the Food Administration was
- Herbert Hoover
- By buying Liberty Bonds, American citizens were
- lending money to government to pay for war
- The result of women replacing men in their jobs was
- a change in veiw that women were only fit for "women's work"
- The War Labor Board settled
- diputes over working hours, wages, and trained to prevent strikes
- people who refused to fight in any war because they believed that war was evil
- pacifists
- IWW stands for
- Industrial Workers of the World