What happened to Germany as a result of the Treaty of Versailles?
Germany gained more land and received payments from Allies
Germany was taken over by Britain
Germany had to give 75% of its land to France and pay $6 mil
Germany had to disarm and pay $33 billion in reparations
What were the 3 "fronts" in WWI?
Western front, Eastern Front, Mediterranean front
Northern front, Southern Front, Atlantic front
Allied front, Central front, and Italian front
Paris front, Austrian front, Russian front
Who took over after the death of the president and was sworn in by his father?
Theodore Roosevelt
Billy Sunday
Calvin Coolidge
Woodrow Wilson
What did Lenin say was the goal of socialism (government-owned property & industry)?
Fascism
Communism
Republicanism
Dictatorship
What type of warfare was used in WWI?
trench warfare
Airsoft warfare
guerilla warfare
March in a line warfare
What are some other names for communists?
Republicans or Democrats
Fascists or punchable faces
Libertarians or Evolutionists
Social Democrats or Marxists
True or False There was no discrimination or segregation of black people in the 1920's
False (The KKK and much racial prejudice existed in the U.S. in the 1920's)
What was the Zimmerman note?
Note from German secretary promising US land to Mexico
Note from US president to Elon Musk
Note from Russian ruler to Germany
Note from US ambassador acting as a spy to Germany
How did the U.S. pay for the war effort for WWI?
Taxes, Liberty loans, and conserving food and fuel.
Loans from Canada and tariffs.
Gold they already had from the gold rush.
What scandal came up at the beginning of Warren G. Harding's term as president?
Tea Party scandal
Russiagate (Trump falsely accused as Russian agent)
Watergate (Nixon spying)
Tea Pot Dome scandal (personal profit on sale of oil leases)
Why did Russia pull out of WWI and when?
Lenin signed an armistice & peace treaty with Germany in1918
They surrendered to Austria and Germany
The Allies weren't Communists; they didn't like them anymore
Their peasants refused to fight
What event sparked the start of WWI?
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
The sinking of the Lusitania
Submarines blockading British ports
Russian peasants deposing the czar
Why were the 1920's called the roaring twenties?
Lots of new inventions, cars, assembly lines, jazz music ...
Wagon wheels across the prairie and transcontinental rail
Lions escaping from the zoos in all the major cities
Computers, the internet, space exploration, Facebook
What is an armistice and when was it for WWI?
a place where arms are stored, Dec. 25, 1917
a holiday marking the end of WWII, 1945
a cease fire, November 11, 1918
a special cast for soldiers with injured arms, used in 1914
What were many families in the 1920's able to afford that they hadn't been able to before?
College education, laptops, and cell phones
Cars, radios, refrigerators, washing machines, etc.
Televisions, airplane tickets, push button cordless phones
Food, clothes, and carriages
What group in the U.S. sparked the creation of the General Intelligence Division, later known as the FBI?
Fear of spies/ sinking of ships in U.S. ports
The rise of the Independent Party/ riots across cities
Fear of bans on chocolate imports/ giant chocolate parties
Fear of Communist Revolution/ bombs exploding in June 1919
In Lenin's New Economic Policy in Russia, what did he give back to appease peasants?
money the tsar had taken from them
some economic freedom to small businesses and farmers
all freedom back to all Russians
a Christmas dinner for each family
In the midst of religious modernism, some people held to the Bible's doctrines. Who?
Fundamentalists
Evolutionists
Socialists
Liberals
Who led the Bolshevik Revolution and what type of government did he want?
Woodrow Wilson
Karl Marx
Vladimir Lenin
Charles Darwin
In the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, what happened to the Tsar Nicholas and his family?
They escaped and no one knows where.
They were allowed to return to power after Communism failed.
They were sent to Siberia and then executed in 1918.
They were exiled to France.
What is Espionage and what did the Espionage act of 1917 do?
spying on a nation/interfering with its security; it made people guilty of it have severe penalties!
What did the 18th and 19th amendments do?
No sale/distribution of alcohol; women's right to vote
Declared freedom of speech and freedom of religion
Allowed people to bear arms; allowed free elections
No slavery; all races have right to vote
What year did WWI start?
1922
1918
1914
1908