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Power Keg
A large peninsula in Southeastern Europe including Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, and Yugoslavia. Called the "powder keg" because it was unstable and set up for disaster with many nationalist groups that allowed for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand that is said to start WWI. The Balkan Wars were two wars (1912-13) that were fought over the last of the European territories of the ottoman empire and that left the area around Constantinople (now Istanbul) as the only ottoman terri -
Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand
Assassinated while paying a state visit to Sarajevo. This man was heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and he was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist. His assassination is what began the war. -
Xenophobia
A general fear or dislike of foreigners; popular among the older generations during the 1880s and 1890s due to the rapid immigration rates. -
Lusitania
The Lusitania was a British passenger ship that was sunk by a German U-Boat on May 7, 1915. 128 Americans died. The unrestricted submarine warfare caused the U.S. to enter World War I against the Germans. -
"He kept us out of war"
Slogan for Woodrow Wilson's presidental campaign. -
General Pershing and American Expeditionary Force
lasted until 1919. U.S forces to fight in WW1 with Britian and France against Germany. -
Zimmermann Telegram
A coded telegram dispatched by the Foreign Secretary of the German Empire, Arthur Zimmermann, on January 16, 1917, to the German ambassador in Mexico, Heinrich von Eckardt, at the height of World War I. The telegram instructed the ambassador to approach the Mexican government with a proposal to form a military alliance against the United States. It was intercepted and decoded by the British and its contents hastened the entry of the United States into World War I. -
Russian Overthrow of Czar
the February Revolution was a popular uprising, it did not necessarily express the wishes of the majority of the Russian population, as the event was primarily limited to the city of Petrograd -
Selective Service Act
Authorized President Woodrow Wilson to raise an infantry force from the general population of no more than four divisions, and it created the Selective Service System. -
Espionage Act
Law which punished people for aiding the enemy or refusing military duty during World War 1. -
War industry board created
Created in July 1917, the War Industries Board controlled raw materials, production, prices, and labor relations It was intended to restore economic order and to make sure the United States was producing enough at home and abroad. -
Russian Revolution
The second stage of the Russian Revolution in November 1917 when Vladimir Lenin and his Bolshevik Party seized power and established a communist state. The first stage had occurred the previous February when more moderate revolutionaries overthrew the Russian Czar. -
Influenze Pandemic
Global outbreak of a deadly type of flu. The movement of soldiers during WWI helped to spread the virus. 20-40% of people in the world are estimated to have become ill with the virus that attacked the young and healthy as well the weak. People sometimes felt fine in the morning and were dead by night. An estimated 675,000 people died in the U.S. and 50 million worldwide. -
Fourteen Points
the war aims outlined by President Wilson in 1918, which he believed would promote lasting peace; called for self-determination, freedom of the seas, free trade, end to secret agreements, reduction of arms and a league of nations -
Sedition Act
Added to Espionage Act, this act deemed "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the American form of government, the Constitution, the flag, or the armed forces as criminal and worthy of prosecution-- the reason why Eugene V. Debs was imprisoned. -
Militarism, Imperialism, Nationalism, Alliance System Lead to War
The reasons countries (primarily the U.S) went to war. -
Schenck V United States
Justice Holmes' claim that Congress could restrict speech if the words "are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create and clear and present danger" when Schenck was convicted for mailing pamphlets urging potential army inductees to resist conscription. -
Big Four Meet
When the treaty of Versailles, it was Great Britain, Italy, United States, and France -
Great Migration
The movement of African Americans from the South to the industrial centers of the Northeast and the Midwest. Causes for migration included decreasing cotton prices, the lack of immigrant workers in the North, increased manufacturing as a result of the war, and the strengthening of the KKK. Migration led to higher wages, more educational opportunities, and better standards of life for some blacks. -
Treaty of Versailes
was created to solve problems made by World War I. Germany was forced to accept the treaty. It was composed of 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. It maintained the pre-war power structure. -
Red Scare
erupted in the early 1920's. The American public was scared that communism would come into the US. Left-winged supporters were suspected. This fear of communism helped businessman who used it to stop labor strikes.