TEST: World War I (The Great War)

WEB DuBois said that African Americans went to Europe to "fight" and that they came back "fighting." What was this a reference to?

• fighting to get paid for their service
• fighting against Jim Crow/segregation
• fighting for the right of women to vote

Why did so many immigrants voluntarilly serve in WWI?

• they wanted to use this as a way to get free travel back to their home land
• they wanted to get military training to then turn on Americans
• they wanted to serve to show their loyalty to their new home, America

What was the outcome of the Second Battle of the Marne?

• The German army's advance was stopped just outside of Paris - they had made their last big push
• The Americans and the Allies liberated Paris from Germany control
• This was a decisive win for the Allies - and the Germans immediately surrendered

What was the Red Scare?

• a wave of widespread fear of suspected communists and radicals thought to be planning revolution within the United States.
• a summer marked by intense racial violence
• a German war tactic of setting fire to the trenches

What *new* strategy, deemed "unladylike" by many, did the National Women's Party begin using to call for female suffrage?

• terrorism
• boycotting American products
• picketing the White House and marching

Wilson said we fought WWI to "make the world safe for democracy.." How did suffragists use these words against him in their call for the right to vote?

• if we are truly a democracy, then women MUST have the right to vote -- otherwise, we are hypocrits
• the United States should not be supporting revolution abroad
• Women are unsafe in their homes without the ability to vote

After WWI, America experienced....

• an economic boom - period of big economic growth
• a severe worker shortage
• a postwar recession (economic down turn) + inflation

After WWI, American society was in the grip of the Red Scare. What was NOT a contributing factor?

• 20% of the workforce went on strike in 1919
• communists had won many local elections and some states even had communist party governors, sparking fear
• the communist revolution in Russia had succeeded, creating the USSR

Native Americans who accepted land under the Allotment Act...

• were made citizens but also were then eligible for the draft
• were forced to convert to Christianity
• were given land plots but forced to pay extremely high taxes on them

TRUE or FALSE: The United States joined the League of Nations

• TRUE
• FALSE