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| Measure passed in 1917 to raise an army for World War I through a draft. |
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| The uprisings in 1917 which overthrew the Czarist government in Russia and replaced it first with a Republican government under Kerensky and then a Communist government (Soviet Union) under Lenin. |
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| President Wilson's warning that Germany would have to answer for illegal destruction of American ships or lives caused by Germany's use of U-boat (submarine) warfare. |
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| British passenger liner sunk off the coast of Ireland by a German U-boat on May 7, 1915, with great loss of life, including 128 Americans. |
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| The Committee on Public Information appointed by Wilson to convince the American people that World War I was just and they should unite behind the war effort. |
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| Women's International League |
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| A group of prominent and successful women from around the world that met in Zurich, Switzerland, during the Versailles Conferance to promote lasting peace. |
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| Wilson's foreign policy that promoted liberal and humanitarian ends and which was based on morality and idealism. |
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| A program organized by Theodore Roosevelt and Leonard Wood before American entry into World War I to prepare an American officer corps for the war. |
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| Great Britain, France, and Russia, the nations which fought with the United States against the Central Powers--Germany and Austria-Hungary--in World War I. |
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| Austria-Hungary and Germany, the nations that fought against the United States and the Allied Powers--Britain, France, and Russia--in World War I. |
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| President Wilson's peace plan announced in 1918, which called for freedom of the seas, equality of trade, self-determination of all peoples, open negotiation of treaties, and a League of Nations to preserve peace. |
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| Social justice progressive who became the first Jewish member ever to serve on the Supreme Court with his appointment by President Wilson in 1916. |
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| Government agency established to protect and extend the rights of labor during World War I while mobilizing them behind the war effort. |
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| Constitutional amendment, ratified in 1920, which extended the right to vote to women. |
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| Treaty that ended World War I. The United States was not a signatory. |
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| Term used for the racial divisions in the United States based on Jim Crow laws which black leaders hoped would crumble black participation in World War I, a war "to make the world safe for democracy." |
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| Espionage and Sedition Acts |
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| Measures passed in 1917 and 1918 to supress dissent and criticism of America's intervention in World War I. |
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| Wilson's phrase in January 1917 that expressed his desire that the end of World War I be a aettlement amoung equals without indemnities and annexations. |
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| Promise by the German ambassador in 1915, after German submarines sank the "Lusitania" and the "Arabic," that Germany would not attack ocean liners without warning. |
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| Government agency headed by Bernard Baruch established to organize resources for the war effort during World War I. |
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| The World War I strategy on the western front in northern France by which soldiers dug miles of ditches, strung barbed wire to protect them, and fought a costly defensive war of attrition over a few yards of territory. |
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| International organization proposed by President Wilson and established by the Treaty of Versailles to keep peace among nations. The Senate refused to ratify the treaty and the United States never became a member of the League. |
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| German message offering Mexico the territory it had lost to the United States in 1848 in return for joining the Central Powers in a war against the United States. |
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| Legislation passed in 1916 banning the interstate shipment of goods manufactured by children. |
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| Slogan of the Commission on Training Camp Activities during World War I which indicated their desire to keep American fighting men free of alcohol, venereal disease, and other sins. |
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| The international principles stipulating that nonbelligerents should be able to do in wartime what they did in peacetime. Specifically, American administrations have appealed to claims of neutral rights to protect American commerce during times of war in Europe. |
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The French Air Service during World War I, composed of mostly American pilots. First battle: Battle of Verdun. |
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| The German offensive plan in World War I to overcome both the French and Russian fronts by taking advantage of their slow preparation of war. This plan failed due to speedy uprisings in Russia and the superiority of Belgian/ French tactics in Battle of the Marne. |
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| German submarines that terrorised cargoships and battleships on the Atlantic. |
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| Act that allowed banks to loan farmers 50% of their value in land and 20% of their value in improvements. This loan share allowed farmers to compete with big business and expand their own prosperity. |
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| Law that established an eight hour workday and pay for overtime work. Sepreme court upheld this act in Wilson v New. |
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| Unrestricted Submarine Warfare |
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| The resumption of German attacks on all shipping boats, be they ally or enemy. |
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| Those who were in favor of the Treaty of Versailles, but only after including a series of reservations to provide American interests. |
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| American Protective League |
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| A group in the World War I era, that fought against anti-war citizens and organizations that were thought to be unpatriotic. |
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| Originally a combination of the Fellowship of Reconsiliation and the American Civil Liberty Union. Fought to protect American civil rights, such as those protected by the first amendment in the Constitution. |
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Fundraiser supported by the treasury that concentrated war-supporting American's money on the war effort by selling government bonds. |
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The United States War Revenue Act of 1917 greatly increased federal income tax rates while simultaneously lowering exemptions. |
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| An organization that regulates the production and healtfulness of food in the United States. |
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| Self determination is a principle, often seen as a moral and legal right. |
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| The monetary amount needed to pay for all of the war damages of a losing country. |
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The clause in the Versailles treaty that stated that Germany took all blame for the war and had to pay reparations. |
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| Archduke Francis Ferdinand |
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| Assassinated and started the sparks of World War I. |
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| President of Germany, at the time of WWI. Started the Prussian alliance. |
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| Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856–February 3, 1924), was the twenty-eighth President of the United States. A devout Presbyterian and leading "intellectual" of the Progressive Era, he served as president of Princeton University then became the reform governor of New Jersey in 1910. |
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| William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 – July 26, 1925) was an American politician, orator and lawyer. He was a three-time Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States. One of the most popular speakers in American history, he was noted for his deep, commanding voice. |
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| Arthur Zimmermann (October 5, 1864 - June 6, 1940) was State Secretary for Foreign Affairs of the German Empire from November 22, 1916, until his resignation on August 6, 1917. His name is associated with the Zimmermann Telegram during World War I. |
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George Creel (December 1, 1876–2 October 1953) was an investigative journalist, a politician, and, most famously, the head of the United States Committee on Public Information, a propaganda organization created by President Woodrow Wilson during World War I. |
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| GCB (September 13, 1860 – July 15, 1948) was an officer in the United States Army. Pershing is the only person, while still alive, to rise to the highest rank ever held in the United States Army—General of the Armies—equivalent only to the posthumous rank of George Washington. Pershing led the American Expeditionary Force in World War I and was regarded as a mentor by the generation. |
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Bernard Mannes Baruch (pronounced /bəˈɹuk/) (August 19, 1870–June 20, 1965) was an American financier, stock market speculator, statesman, and presidential adviser. After his success in business, he devoted his time toward advising Democratic presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt on economic matters. |
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| Carrie Chapman Catt (January 9, 1859 – March 9, 1947) was a woman's suffrage leader. She was elected president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) twice. |
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David Lloyd-George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor OM, PC (17 January 1863 – 26 March 1945) was a British statesman who was the first, and only Welsh Prime Minister that Britain has had so far. He was Prime Minister throughout the later half of World War I and the first four years of the subsequent peace. |
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| Vittorio Emanuele Orlando (May 19, 1860 - December 1, 1952) was an Italian diplomat and political figure. He was born in Palermo, Sicily. His father, a landed gentleman, delayed venturing out to register his son's birth for fear of Giuseppe Garibaldi's 1,000 patriots who had just stormed into Sicily on the first leg of their march to build an Italian nation.[1] |
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| Georges Benjamin Clemenceau[1] (Mouilleron-en-Pareds (Vendée), 28 September 1841 – 24 November 1929) was a French statesman, physician and journalist. He served as the prime minister of France from 1906-1909 and 1917-1920. He led France during World War I and was one of the major voices behind the Treaty of Versailles. |
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| William Edgar Borah (June 29, 1865 near Fairfield, Illinois – January 19, 1940 Washington, D.C.) was a prominent attorney and longtime United States Senator from Idaho noted for his oratorical skills and isolationist views. |
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Henry Cabot Lodge (May 12, 1850 – November 9, 1924) was an American statesman, a Republican politician, and noted historian. |
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| Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Russian: Влади́мир Ильи́ч Ле́нин), born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Russian: Влади́мир Ильи́ч Улья́нов) (April 22, 1870 – January 21, 1924), was a Russian revolutionary, a communist politician, the main leader of the October Revolution, the first head of the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic and from 1922, the first de facto leader of the Soviet Union. |
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| Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (IPA: /ˈroʊzəvɛlt/; October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), also known as T.R., and to the public (but never to friends and intimates) as Teddy, was the twenty-sixth President of the United States, and a leader of the Republican Party and of the Progressive Movement. |
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| Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964), the thirty-first President of the United States (1929–1933), was a mining engineer and humanitarian administrator. |
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| was an American labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history. Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and held the position as president of the organization for all but one year from 1886 until his death in 1924. He promoted harmony among the different craft unions that comprised the AFL, and opposed industrial unionism. |
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| was an American suffragist leader. Along with Lucy Burns (a close friend) and others, she led a successful campaign for women's suffrage that resulted in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920. |
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