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ch 23 Flashcards

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Submarine warfare

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Germans used submarines to sink vessels without warning

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Zimmerman telegram

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Telegram that the British intercepted from the German foreign minister saying Germany and Mexico should become allies if US joined war; said Mexico would regain lost provinces

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Lusitania

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British passenger liner carrying munitions that a german u-boat sunk on may 7, 1915; 1148 casualties, 128 Americans

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Sussex

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French steamer attacked by german submarine, started unrestricted submarine warfare

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American expeditionary force

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Armed forces sent to Europe to help in 1917 under command of John j. Pershing

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Selective service act

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Brought nearly 3 million men into army, US draft

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Intelligence quotient

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Used as a tool to determine officers in the military, tested soldiers’ intelligence(IQ)

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John jay Pershing

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Led the American expeditionary force to join the existing allied forces although it retained a command structure independent of other allies

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Fourteen points

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Wilson’s plan to end WWI

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David Lloyd George

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British prime minister part of the Big Four, insisted for a time that the german Kaiser be captured and executed

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George’s Clemenceau

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Premier of France in the Big Four, wanted to gain from the struggle to compensate for the catastrophe they had suffered

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Vittorio Orlando

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Premier of Italy in the Big Four, attended Paris peace conference

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The Big Four

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Composed of top four allies at Paris peace conference; Woodrow Wilson of US, David Lloyd George of GB, vittorio Orlando of Italy, Clemenceau of France

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Reparations

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Payments of war debts

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Treaty of Versailles

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created by Wilson, Officially ended WWI

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The irreconcilables

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Senators(western isolationists) opposed the agreements in the treaty of Versailles on principle

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Henry Cabot lodge

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Senator of Mass powerful chairman of the foreign relations committee & leader of Reservationists, friend of Roosevelt and hated Wilson and the treaty of Versailles, made a series of “reservations” to the league limiting US obligations to the org.

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Total war

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War that is unrestricted in the terms of weaponry, combatants involved, and objectives pursued; involves all aspects of society

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