WW1

Question 1

causes:

pro british feeling

Answer 1

• good for trade

- similar culture to the US

Question 2

causes:

submarine warfare

Answer 2

• 1917 germans gave 8 hrs before every sip in british water is sunk
• thought america would get involved and then britain surender (backfired)

Question 3

causes:

u - boat sinking

Answer 3

• 1917 1 million tons of allied shipping sunk by u boats

- allies also in trouble so they joined the war

Question 4

causes:

Zimmerman telegraph 1917

Answer 4

• told mexico to go to war with america and army would get back text and new mexico for them
• (us got message before mexico and mexico already in a civil war)

Question 5

causes:

anti-german feeling

Answer 5

• black toms munition factory blown up in 1916
• 20 million of damage and 2 million tons of ammo gone
• blame german saboteurs

Question 6

causes:

economic benefits

Answer 6

• war bring us out of depression and double export percentage
• 70% exports to europe
• submarine warfare mean they have to protect their exports

Question 7

impact:

food production increase

Answer 7

12.3 million to 18.6 million tons in 1915 and 1918

Question 8

impact:

money spent on war

Answer 8

33.5 billion (2 third raised by war bonds)

Question 9

impact:

soldiers killed

Answer 9

50,000

Question 10

impact:

social aspects

Answer 10

• full employment
• unite through patriotism
• spy suspicion (1500 prosecutions)
  fear of socialism and communism
• 1918 immigration act
• 1 million called upon to fight
• wanted isolationism

Question 11

impact:

impact oj black people

Answer 11

• 330,000 blacks migrate north

- 360,000 sign up for war

Question 12

impact:

foreign politics

Answer 12

• briton and france dependant on war supplies

- britain, france, germany, russian economies bad so US a leading power

Question 13

impact:

fears after the war

Answer 13

• communism
• temperance members
• whit anglo saxon protestants
• immigrants
• businessmen
• farmers