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chapter 18 section 2 Flashcards

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central powers countries included

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germany, austria-hungary, ottoman empire

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allied powers countries included

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great britain, france, russia, United states

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warring nations

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beligerants

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western front streched from

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switzerland to English channel

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battle of marne set the

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realization of a long war

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trench warfare

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miles of trenches dug throughout the country side. Armies fought in trenches

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“No man’s land”

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barbed wire, land mines

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eastern front from __________ to __________

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black sea

baltic sea

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Bosporus/Dardanelles straits

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strategic water ways

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race for the sea

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trying to gain control over the waterways

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industrialized war

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weapons mass produced industrially

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total war

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drafting soldiers
factories converted
women working

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propaganda

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using information to shape public opinion

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attrocities

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brutal acts against civilians

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german U Boats

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Underwater boats

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contraband

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any material used in war effort

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unrestricted submarine warfare

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germans fired on any ship

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Lusitania was a

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British cruise liner torpedoed and sunk

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Sussex Pledge

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Germans wouldn’t fire without a warning

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Woodrow Wilson was elected president in

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1916

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He Kept us out of war

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keeping U.S out of war

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in the stalemate of WWI

Both sides wondered if they

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could break lines of enemies

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war of attrition

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slowly wearing down

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arthur zimmerman was a ________. who sent a _________-

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German official

telegram to Mexico

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telegram contents

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urging mexico to go to war against the united states

26
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“World must be safe for democracy”-

Justified

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President Wilson

United States for entering the war.

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