Objective 8.03 Apply Animation and Graphic Methods in a Windows Form (4%)
Objective 8.03
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Objective 8.03
Assess political, economic, social, and cultural effects of the war on the United
States and other nations.
Committee on Public Information
Led by George Creel, set up to provide propaganda in support of the US war effort
Food Administration
Led by Herbert Hoover, regulated food supply for citizens and troops
War Industries Board
Led by Bernard Baruch, determined what would be produced by American Industry
John L. Lewis
Leader of the United Mine Workers Union
Industrial Workers of the World
Union led by Eugene Debs, Against WWI
Eugene Debs
Leader of the Industrial Workers of the World, ran for President 5 times as a socialist party candidate
Espionage and Sedition Acts
Law set up to discourage spies and those that would criticize the government during WWI.
Schenck vs. US, 1919
Charles Schenck is arrested for violating the Espionage and Sedition Acts, he encourages people that are drafted to refuse to enlist, Supreme Court says that freedom of speech is not protected when the nation is at war
Palmer Raids
Led search for suspected Communist among immigrants and Union membership among other places
Sacco and Vanzetti
Two Italian born anarchist are accused of robbing a pay clerk, they are convicted on circumstantial evidence mainly because they are immigrants
Ku Klux Klan
Enjoyed a period of power following WWI, anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic, resisted Civil Rights for African Americans
Self-determination
Countries are allowed to decide for themselves what type of government they will have
Washington Naval Conference
Agreement between US, Great Britain, France, Japan to limit the size of their Navies in an attempt to insure that there would not be a WWII
Dawes Plan
US agrees to loan money to Germany to help with reparations