- - a strong feeling of loyalty to a nation- the Black Hand group members felt nationalistic, as well as all the citizens of every country in WWI
- - A German foreign minister (Zimmerman) sent a telegram to the leaders of Mexico asking them to join to Central Powers- if Mexico joined and the central powers won, they promised they will get back the land Mexico lost in the Mexican-American war- Mexico didn't agree
- - Congress passed 2 acts:1. The Espionage Act - encouraged US citizens to be on the lookout for anyone acting in favor of Germany against the US - created the fear that German-Americans are still loyal to Germany2. Sedition Act - limited the public's freedom of speech during the war - made it illegal to criticize the US's involvement in the war- Committee of Public Information was created: it controls what the public reads and sees so that they stay loyal to the war effort- Victory Gardens: citizens are encouraged to grow their own food so that more food can go to the soldiers
- - Russia, 1917- Russian Revolution began - Russia fell to communism and Lenin came to power- now Germany only had to fight on the Western Front, giving them a renewed hope at winning the war- they decided to roll the dice again and try to finish the war off as quickly as possible before the US could send troops
- - "The Great Migration" occurred - more African Americans left the South to go to Northern cities to work in factories or as construction workers- they did this to escape sharecropping and the threat of lynching
- - taking over a country to exploit its natural resources and gain more power- Austria-Hungary had imperialized Serbia, which caused the Black Hand to be formed
- - we established a signed agreement with Germany called the Sussex Pledge- this made Germany promise to not sink anymore US ships
- - fossil fuels are in demand, so this administration is created to regulate the use of fossil fuels- civilians get less gas and oil - most is going to the military- prices increase- daylight savings is instituted to save energy
- - they would use their U-boats (submarines) to sink European ships by sneak attacks- they didn't give the sailors the chance to surrender- then they just leave them there to die
- - Germany- they knew that they would have to fight a 2 front war, so they decided to roll the dice and try to win the war as quickly as possible- Germany wants to do a quick sneak attack on France, and have to go through neutral Belgium to do so- it almost works, but the Germans fail
- - the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife- done by a Serbian nationalist group called the Black Hand- they didn't like that Austria-Hungary had imperialized Serbia
- Which German city where Nazi war crimes trials were held by the Allies after WW1 ?
- This country pulled out of WW1 in 1917 in order to have a communist revolution
- Germany breaks their non-aggression pact with the Soviets in 1941 by invading what country ?
- This telegram during WW1 turned America's public opinion on Germany to a negative one
- This battle between the US and Japan is considered a major turning point in the war in the Pacific during WW2
- Who was the leader of the soviet union after Lenin ?
- The policy England and France were following during the Munich Conference where they essentially gave Hitler what he wanted in order to prevent another war
- During WW2, The Us bombs all major Japanese cities except for this one, due to it being Japan's ancient capital
- This European country was blamed entirely for WW1 in the Treaty of Versailles