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False - Labor Strikes increased due to the inflation, so people needed more money to pay for consumer goods
- carried out the Palmer Raids- he thinks a mass overthrow of our government is being planned by immigrants- he leads police raids of the homes of new immigrants so search their residences and see if they are communists- if they are determined to be communists, then they are deported without trial
- the soldiers (mostly white) come back and take their old jobs back in the North- this leaves the African Americans who moved North and took these jobs unemployed- leads to race riots
- Convoy System / the Destroyer- ships are sent together in a formation- Destroyers are created: fast, small, armed ships that are used to escort the larger ships transporting soldiers- 100% successful
cannons (they were used to break stalemates in the trenches; they would explode above the trenches, sending shrapnel everywhere)
- The Paris Peace Conference- The Treaty of Versailles is drawn up, and the 14 Points are presented- The "Big Four" meet and decide Germany's fate- Germany is held responsible for the war- it's decided that Germany has to pay $33 billion in reparations - this destroyed their economy- Germany is also forced to dismantle their entire military
- US's top fighter pilot- credited with shooting down 26 enemy aircrafts- received many metals of honor- survived the war- became the first President of U.S. Air
- new agency created in 1917- this board tells our industry what to make to supply our military- our government makes a contract with industries, promising that whatever war goods they produce, the government will buy, guarantied- less consumer goods are made- really benefits the industry- industrial production increases by 20% by 1917
- nickname for a WWI US soldier- nickname was created because the buttons on their uniforms looked like doughballs
- Battle of Argonne Forrest- 1st major battle the US fought it- the US is given credit for winning the battle- US soldiers came in and inspired the British an French troops who had a really low moral
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- the seize-fire is declared in WWI: Germany agrees to discuss surrendering- unofficial end of WWI- now celebrated as Veterans Day / Armacist Day
- nicknamed the "Harlem Hell-fighters"- African American division that was highly decorated by the French- asked to fight in combat with the French, which they were allowed to do, so they fought under French command
- one of the U.S.'s most highly decorated combat soldiers ever- when York was first drafted, he was a conscientious objector at first (on grounds of his religion)- eventually is convinced to use his God-given talent for shooting and join the war- became a hero in the Battle of Argonne- fought in no man's land, attacked the enemy trench and took out their machine gun, forcing over 100 Germans to surrender and capturing them as prisoners of war
- it was created to settle disputes between workers and industry before it turns into a strike- strikes were looked at as unpatriotic at this time
- Woodrow Wilson came up with the 14 Points- Wilson wants to go easy of Germany, but Britain and France didn't listen- within the 14 Points was the idea of the League of Nations
- Britain- propaganda- they cut the transatlantic communication wire that connected us to France and the rest of Europe, making them our only source of information about WWI- so they were able to sway out public's opinion and paint the Germans as barbarians
- agreements that countries make to help and support each other- lots of secret alliances throughout Europe
- when a country builds up a big military so that they are able to overpower any country that threatens them- all the European countries did this (especially Germany) in case their was ever a war
- opened up opportunities- young, middle-class women are expected to work in factories- they can now live alone without being looked down upon