Chapter 10World War I

1914-1920

Part 4

8. Food Administration—Under Herbert Hoover worked to increase agricultural output, and reduce waste.

9. The Food Administration had the power to impose price controls and rationing. Hoover hoped instead for voluntary restraint.

10. Fuel Administration—This agency began the practice of daylight savings time in hopes of lowering fuel consumption.

11. The Committee on Public Information—Its purpose was to rally support for the war.

12. Espionage Act—Made it illegal to interfere with the draft.

13. The Sedition Act—made it illegal to obstruct the sale of Liberty Bonds or discuss anything “disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive” about the American form of government, the Constitution or the Army or Navy.

14. Eugene Debs—sentenced to 10 years in jail for criticizing the American government and urging people to resist militarism.

15. Industrial Workers of the World—(IWW) a radical labor organization with the goal of overthrowing capitalism.

16. The war stopped the flow of immigrants from Europe and the war took many young men out of the labor pool. Because of this, factories that use to discriminate against African Americans, Mexican Americans, and women began actively recruiting them.

17. In 1919 the states ratified the Eighteenth Amendment. It made the sale, transporting, or manufacture of alcoholic beverages in the U.S. illegal.

1. President Wilson’s plan for a postwar European peace was called Fourteen Points.

2. League of Nations—An international organization, formed after WWI, that aimed to promote security and peace for all members.

Post War

3. “The Big Four”—Britain, France, Italy, and the U.S. These countries dominated the peace conference.

4. Clemenceau—French premier that wanted to severely punish Germany by imposing stiff reparations on Germany.

5. Reparations—payment for economic injury suffered during a war.

6. Orlando—Prime Minister of Italy after WWI.

7. Versailles Treaty—1919 treaty that ended WWI.

8. Weiman(VY-mahr) Republic—a democratic government established in post WWI Germany.