APUSH Chapter 31 WW1

"The war to end war" (sometimes called "The war to end all wars") was a term for World War I. Originally idealistic, it is now used mainly in a disparaging way.

Fourteen goals of the United States in the peace negotiations after World War I. President Woodrow Wilson announced the Fourteen Points to Congress in early 1918. They included public negotiations between nations, freedom of navigation, free trade, self-determination for several nations involved in the war, and the establishment of an association of nations to keep the peace. The "association of nations" Wilson mentioned became the League of Nations.

The determining by the people of the form their government shall have, without reference to the wishes of any other nation, especially by people of a territory or former colony.

An international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations; although suggested by Woodrow Wilson, the United States never joined and it remained powerless; it was dissolved in 1946 after the United Nations was formed

George Creel was an investigative journalist, a politician, and, most famously, the head of the United States Committee on Public Information, a propaganda organization created by President Woodrow Wilson during World War I. He said of himself that "an open mind is not part of my inheritance.

The Espionage Act is a federal legislature enacted in 1917. The Act criminalizes and punishes espionage, spying and related crimes. The Act prohibits not only spying but also various other activities, including certain kinds of expression.

A law stating during times of war, rules can be changed. An amendment to the Espionage Act of 1917, the Sedition Act of 1918 made it a felony (1) to convey false statements interfering with American war efforts; (2) to willfully employ "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the U.S. form of government, the Constitution, the flag, or U.S. military or naval forces; (3) to urge the curtailed production of necessary war materials; or (4) to advocate, teach, defend, or suggest the doing of any such acts. Violations were punishable by fine, imprisonment, or both.

United States labor organizer who ran for President as a socialist (1855-1926)

This doctrine pioneered new territory by drawing a line that separates protected speech, such as the public criticism of government and its policies, from unprotected speech, such as the advocacy of illegal action.

At the center of the effort to rationalize the economy was the war industries bond. (WIB) an agency created in July 1917 to coordinate government purchase of military supplies. Casually organized at first, it stumbled badly until March 1918 when wilson restructered it and placed it under the control of the wall street financier Bernard Buruch .

(American Federation of Labor) The first permanent national labour movement in America, founded in 1886. It amalgamated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.

The National War Labor Board was a federal agency created on April 8, 1918 by President Woodrow Wilson. It was composed of twelve representatives from business and labor, and co-chaired by Former President William Howard Taft.

The National Woman's Party was a women's organization founded by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns in 1913 that fought for women's rights during the early 20th century in the United States, particularly for the right to vote on the same terms as men.

The National American Woman Suffrage Association was an American women's rights organization formed in May 1890 as a unification of the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association.

An amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in 1920; guarantees that no state can deny the right to vote on the basis of sex

A federal agency in the Department of Health and Human Services established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products

An amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in 1920; prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages; repealed in 1932

Compulsory enrollment, especially for the armed forces; draft.

Also called October Revolution. the overthrow of this provisional government by a coup d'état on November 7, 1917 (October 25 Old Style), establishing the Soviet government. Communism

John Joseph "Black Jack" Pershing, was a general officer in the United States Army who led the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I. Pershing is the only person to be promoted in his own lifetime to the highest rank ever held in the United States Army—General of the Armies.

The German surrender was the product of events in 1918. By the end of 1917, an Allied victory in Europe was far from certain. The Americans had come into the war - but Russia, overtaken by socialist revolutionaries, had pulled out.

Henry Cabot "Slim" Lodge was an American Republican Senator and historian from Massachusetts. He was also a friend and confidant of Theodore Roosevelt. He had the role of Senate Majority leader

Germany and the Allies signed a peace treaty at the end of World War I. The United States, Great Britain, France, and Italy negotiated the treaty at the Peace Conference held in Versaille beginning on January 18, 1919. The German Republic government which replaced the imperial administration was excluded from the deliberations. The treaty created the Covenant of the League of Nations, outlined Germany's disarmament, exacted massive reparation payments from Germany, and forced Germany to cede large tracts of territory to various European nation-states.

Warren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th President of the United States, a Republican from Ohio who served in the Ohio Senate and then in the United States Senate where he protected alcohol interests and moderately supported women's suffrage. He was the first incumbent U.S.

War Starts Cenrral Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey Allied Powers: Britain, France, Russia, Italy

Germany announces submarine warfare

Lusitania sunk (Wilson protests; Bryan resigns)

Germany agrees to Sussex Pledge regarding U-boat activity

Wilson re-elected ("He Kept Us Out of War")

Wilson's "Peace Without Victory" speech

Germany announces unrestricted submarine warfare

Russian Revolution; Zimmerman note

U.S. enters the War; draft law passed

Bolshevik Revolution in Russia

Wilson's Fourteen Points

American troops arrive

Chateau-Thierry

St. Michel salient and Meuse-Argonne offensive

Armistice signed (10 million killed; 53,000 are Americans)

Paris Peace Conference opens

Treaty of Versailles completed

Lodge holds hearings in the Senate regarding ratification

Wilson goes to the country; suffers stroke

Lodge's fourteen reservations. Senate defeat of treaty

Final defeat of treaty