Chapter 30 vocab APUSH
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Terms | Definitions |
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 George Creel | Headed the Committee on Public Information, tried to get Americans in favor of the war. |
| Eugene V. Debbs | Persecuted for being an antiwar socialist |
| Bernard Baruch | Head of War Industries Board, didn't achieve much |
| Herbert Hoover | Headed the Food Administration, encouraged Americans to give up some of their food voluntarily for the war effort. |
| Alice Paul | Quaker activist who protested against "Kaiser Wilson" with marches and hunger strikes. |
| Henry Cabot Lodge | An intelligent, Republican senator who "Americanized" the Treaty of Versailles |
| Warren G. Harding | one of the best liked men of his time. He won the 1920 election but he was unable to detect moral wrongs in his associates. He appointed "great minds" to office because he knew he lacked in intelligence. He was called an "amiable boob." |
| James M. Cox | democrat nominee chosen to run for the presidency against Harding in the 1920 election. His vice-presidential running mate was Franklin Roosevelt. |
| Self-Determination | idea that all people can have independence and make up their own government. This was one of Wilson's fourteen points. |
| collective security | Described what the League of Nations should do. It said that the League of Nations was supposed to guarantee the political independence and territorial integrity of all countries. |
| conscription | Draft, compulsory enlistment for state service, typically into the military, only way to raise a war army fast enough |
| "normalcy" | After a long reign of high morality, people were ready to accept a lower quality president who would not force them to be so involved |
| Zimmermann note | Written by a German foreign secretary. In this note he secretly proposed a German- Mexican alliance. He tempted Mexico with the ideas of recovering Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico. The note was intercepted on March 1, 1917 by the U.S. government. |
| Fourteen Points | Wilson's peace plan. Each of the points were designed to prevent future wars. Each one was appealing to a specific group in the war and each one held a specific purpose. |
| League of Nations | proposed in the 14th point of Wilson's peace plan. He envisioned it as an Assembly with seats for all nations and a special council for the great powers. The US voted not to join the League because in doing so, Congress could not decide whether to go to war or not. |
| Committee on Public Information | headed by George Creel. The purpose of this committee was to mobilize people's minds for war, both in America and abroad. Creel's organization, employed some 150,000 workers at home and oversees. |
| Espionage and Sedition Acts | Two acts that showed American fears of Germans |
| Schenck v. United States | Stated that the freedom of speech could be revoked when such speech posed a "clear and present danger" to the nation. |
| Industrial Workers of the World | Also known as "Wobblies," a more radical labor organization that was against war. |
| War Industries Board | A committee created by Wilson and headed by Bernard Baruch that didn't achieve much |
| Nineteenth Amendment | gave women suffrage in 1920 |
| Eighteenth Amendment | Banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol |
| Bolsheviks | These communists organized a revolution in Russia to overthrow the tsar. The communist revolution caused Russia to pull out of WWI. |
| doughboys | The nickname given to regular soldiers in World War I. They were part of the American Legion that was lobbying for veteran's benefits. They wanted to receive their "dough" to make up for the wages that they lost when they joined the military. |
| Big Four | four countries that were allied together in WWI. The countries were the U.S. represented, England, France, and Italy. |
| irreconcilables | During World War I, senators William Borah of Idaho and Hiram Johnson of California, led a group of people who were against the United States joining the League of Nations. Also known as "the Battalion of Death". |
| Treaty of Versailles | Germany was forced to accept the treaty. Had only four of the original points made by President Woodrow Wilson. The treaty punished Germany and did nothing to stop the threat of future wars. Maintained the pre-war power structure |
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