5. Great War Section C

President of the United States during the First World War

• Woodrow Wilson

• Charles Schenck

• Eugene Debs

• John Pershing

the first woman elected to congress. she was from Montana and voted against WWI as well as WWII.

• Carrie Chapman Catt

• Alice Paul

• Eleanor Roosevelt

• Jeannette Rankin

Convicted by the U.S. government of distributing anti-draft pamphlets

• Woodrow Wilson

• Charles Schenck

• Eugene Debs

• John Pershing

A socialist leader in America.

• Woodrow Wilson

• Charles Schenck

• Eugene Debs

• John Pershing

Commander of American Expeditionary Force of over 1 million troops who insisted his soldiers fight as independent units under U.S. officers.

• Woodrow Wilson

• Charles Schenck

• Eugene Debs

• John Pershing

Law passed by Congress in 1917 that required all men from ages 21 to 30 to register for the military draft

• Lusitania

• Zimmerman Telegram

• Blockade

• Selective Service

Germany tried to convince Mexico and Japan to attack the U.S.

• Lusitania

• Zimmerman Telegram

• Blockade

• Selective Service

passenger ship sunk by Germany to get US involved in WW1

• USS Maine

• Zimmerman Telegram

• Lusitania

• Selective Service

The use of troops or ships to prevent commercial traffic from entering or leaving an area

• Lusitania

• Zimmerman Telegram

• Blockade

• Selective Service

movement of over 300,000 African American from the rural south into Northern cities between 1914 and 1920

• Doughboys

• Harlem Hellfighters

• Great Migration

• Belleau Wood