AH4.5 World War I: Home Front

What term refers to civilians who work away from the front lines of a war working in military production to produce war materials?

• military industrial complex

• civilian corp

• national guard

• home front

What government agency raised an army for World War I?

• Selective Service

• War Production Board

• Volunteers Assistance

• American War Board

What acts were passed during World War I that greatly limited U.S. citizens' rights?

• Alien and Sedition Act

• Sedition and Patriot Act

• Espionage and Sedition Act

• Elkinn and Dawes Act

Schenck v. United States declared freedom of speech could be suspended if the speech presented what?

• a persecution of a group of people or religion

• a criticism of the government

• clear and present danger

• involved misinformation

What new type of government was introduced to Russia during World War I and led to the Russians pulling out of the war?

• Democracy

• Feudalism

• Communism

• Theocracy

What were people scared of during the Red Scare of the 1920s?

• anarchy

• communist takeover

• World War II

• Germany becoming powerful again

What was the primary focus of United States foreign policy in the decade after World War I?

• defend the price of freedom of the seas

• contain the spread of communism

• retreat from international affairs and become isolationists

• fulfill collective security agreements with Western European nations