2. AHSGE Standard VI Causes & Effects of World War I

3.  What territory did the U.S. help liberate from Spain? – Cuba General Valeriano Weyler

4.  What territory did the U.S. gain control over as a result of the defeat of the Spanish?

5.  President Roosevelt led the movement to build what canal in Central America? – Panama

6.  Who was the Alabama doctor who helped wipe out yellow fever in Panama? – William Gorgas

7.  What addendum to the Monroe Doctrine was made by Roosevelt justifying American intervention in the South American nations in trouble? – Roosevelt Corollary

8.  The United States wanted an _________ with China which would have allowed open trade. – Open Door Policy

9.  What were the long term causes of the First World War? – Militarism – Alliances – Imperialism – Nationalism

10.  What was the immediate cause of World War I (The Great War)? – Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand

11.  Why did the U.S. enter the War to End All Wars? – Unrestricted Submarine Warfare (Luisitania) (Luisitania) – Economic Connections to the Allies ($2.25 billion dollars in U.S. loans to the Allies) – Zimmerman Telegram – Propaganda

12.  What types of technological innovations were used in The War to Make the World Safe for Democracy? – Tanks – Zeppelins – Poison Gas – Planes

13. U-Boats & Torpedoes

14.  What treaty ended World War I? – Treaty of Versailles

15.  What was the purpose of imperialism? – To have controlled areas of influence around the world (economic, political, and military control)

16.  What type of fighting took place in WWI? – Trench Warfare

17. Living in the Trenches

18. German Trench

19.  Who were the Central Powers? – Italy (yes then no) – Austria-Hungary – Germany – Ottoman Empire – Bulgaria

20.  Who were the Allied Powers? – Great Britain – France – Russia – United States – (Italy)

21.  What acts allowed the government to deny people the rights of freedom guaranteed by the Bill of Rights and contributed to the Nativist hatred of immigrants during & after WWI? – Sedition Act – Espionage Act

22.  Which groups benefited from the diminished workforce during WWI? – African Americans – Women

23.  Name the organization in which the nations of the world would join together to ensure security and peace for all members.

24.  Which country refused to sign the Treaty of Versailles because the League of Nations was included in it?

25.  This was an intense fear of communism and other extreme ideas that gripped the U.S. during the 1920’s.

26.  Trail in which two immigrants were given an unfair trial due to their ethnic background and were eventually put to death. – Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti

27.  Name of the summer in 1919 in which race riots erupted in about 25 cities nationwide. – Red Summer

28.  By 1922, this organization’s membership had grown to about 100,000 and by 1924 to 4 million. – Communist Party

29.  Migration of blacks from the South to the North for jobs. – The Great Migration

30.  A number limit set up by laws to limit annual immigration. – Quota Quota

31.  List several technological innovations in the 1920’s.

32.  African American author of Their Eyes Were Watching God. – Zora Neale Hurston Born in Notasulga, AL

33.  African American literary awakening of the 1920’s. – Harlem Renaissance

34.  List three leading poets/writers of the Harlem Renaissance. – Claude McKay – Langston Hughes – Countee Cullen

35.  This type of music grew out of African American music in the South, especially ragtime and blues. – Jazz

36.  What type of age is the 1920’s referred to as? – Jazz Age – Roaring Twenties

37.  Illegal bars that flourished during prohibition were – Speakeasies

38.  Case over the teaching of the theory of evolution in the classroom.

39.  During the 1920’s women began to demand more rights. Which woman argued women needed birth control rights? – Margaret Sanger

40.  Considered one of the founders of the blues movement (from Alabama) – W.C. Handy Father of the Blues