US History
Topic 8 Study Guide – The First World War & Its Effects in the United States
Notes – The Guns of August, American Response to War, The Course of War, “Dulce Et Decorum Est,” Poetry from the Front Lines (handout), Fighting for Peace: The Treaty of Versailles, and Social Effects of WWI
Names to Know
Otto von Bismarck
GavrilloPrincip
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Woodrow Wilson
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Arthur Zimmermann
Jeanette Rankin
Admiral William S. Sims
General John J. Pershing
Herbert Hoover
Ernest Hemingway
Wilfred Owen
Siegfried Sassoon
Henry Cabot Lodge
Adolf Hitler
Eugene V. Debs
A. Mitchell Palmer
J. Edgar Hoover
Helmuth von Moltke
Paul von Hindenburg
Erich Ludendorff
Alan Seeger
Ivor Gurney
John McCrae
Vocabulary
“Freedom of the Seas”
Storm Troopers
Propaganda
Armistice
“Peace without victory”
Irreconcilables
Reservationists
Maginot Line
Abdicate
Hyphenated Americans
Bolsheviks
Autocracy
Armistice
Self-Determination
Shellshock
Trenchfoot
Pandemic
Xenophobia
Doughboys
Concepts, Short Answer, & Multiple Choice
19th Century Diplomacy
Effects of Italian & German unification
Bismarck’s alliances
Serbian Nationalism
Schlieffen Plan
Germany’s “Blank Check”
“Freedom of the Seas” – how was it being violated (by both the Americans and the Germans)?
War of attrition
Effect of the sinking of the Lusitania
Debate over preparedness – which groups wanted to be prepared, which ones didn’t?
Importance of the National Defense Act and the Naval Construction Act
“peace without victory”
Zimmermann Telegram
Bolshevik Revolution in Russia
British propaganda – how did it affect American public opinion?
Convoy system
Liberty Loan Act and “Liberty Bonds”
Selective Service Act of 1917
Commission on Training Camp Activities
Total War Effort
Committee of Public Information
War Industries Board
Food Administration – “Food will win the war”
Modern weaponry – how did it make war more horrific for soldiers?
Battles of Verdun and the Somme
“race for France”
Armistice
“stabbed in the back” legend in Germany
Wilson’s Fourteen Points – Goals?
League of Nations
German “war guilt”
Results of the Treaty of Versailles and their effects in Europe
Maginot Line
“irreconcilables”
“reservationists”
The Great Migration
How did “war work” help women? How did women’s “war work” help the war effort?
Espionage and Sedition Acts – Goals? Importance?
Campaigns for “Americanism”
Racial friction – “The Red Summer”
Red Scare – what was it?
Spanish Flu