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Militarism

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  • Embraced by Germany, France, Russia
  • Expensive because u are maintaining a large army
  • glorification of the military
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Francis Ferdinand

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  • Heir to Austrian-Hungarian throne (Arch-Duke)

- Killed along with his wife (starts WWI) by Serbs who wanted their freedom from Austria-Hungary

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William II

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  • Kaiser of Germany

- Said Germany would stand by Austria-Hungary during war

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Western Front

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-battle front between the Allies and CentralPowers in western Europe during World War I

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Casualty

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-soldiers killed, wounded, and missing

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Contraband

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  • supplies captured from an enemy duringwartime

- Germans justified sinking enemy ships by saying it had contraband

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U-Boad

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-German submarines that would torpedo ships

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Lusitania

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  • British passenger liner sunk by a German U-boatduring World War I
  • 100 americans aboard were killed
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Zimmerman Note

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  • telegram written by German ForeignMinister Zimmermann proposing an alliance betweenGermany and Mexico against the United States duringWorld War I
  • Said they would help Mexico get land back from Mexican-American war
  • Intercepted by England, who gave it to USA Newspapers
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Alsace-Loraine

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  • Province between Germany and France

- Controlled by Germany

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Selective Service Act

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  • act passed by Congress in 1917authorizing a draft of men for military service
  • 24 million people registered for the draft, only 5 million went
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Bernard Baruch

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  • Wall Street broker

- Helped run food manufacturing during the war (WIB)

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Committee on Public Information

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  • governmentagency created during World War I to encourageAmericans to support the war
    • Educate Americans about the war
    • Convince them that the war was a “just cause”
    • Used propaganda, demonize enemy
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George Creel

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-Head of CPI

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Conscientious Objectors

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  • person whose moral or religiousbeliefs forbid him or her to fight in wars
    • Ex: Quakers
    • Today: Physical disabilities
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Espionage Act

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  • Goes along with Sedition Act
    • act passed by Congress in 1917 enactingsevere penalties for anyone engaged in disloyal or treasonableactivities
    • Restrict freedom on civil liberties (freedom of speech, freedom of press)
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Great Migration

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  • movement of 1.5 Million African Americans in thetwentieth century from the rural South to the industrialNorth
    • Move there for job opportunities, separate from Jim Crowe Laws, education for children
    • Ex: Boston, New York
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Convoy

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  • Put destroyers (naval ships) outside the merchant ships to protect the goods and people on them
    • Used to send supplies from USA to Europe
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Vladimir Lenin

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  • German sent to Moscow to disrupt the Russia government
    • Zar is arrested, Russia is out of the war
    • Lenin became dictator of Russia
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John J Pershing

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  • Led the American Expeditionary Force in Europe

- Commands all the american troops

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Fourteen Points

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  • Woodrow Wilson’s plan to end WWI
    • Blueprint for peace for all time
    • Ex: Self-determination for all nations, free trade (get rid of tariffs), no more secret treaties, League of Nations
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Self-Determination

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  • China is for China, Americans own america etc.

- the right of people to choose their ownform of government

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League of Nations

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  • A forum of nations created in by Woodrow Wilson to talk out problems
    • One of the Fourteen Points
    • People opposed because they didn’t want to send their citizens to foreign countries
  • Deterrent for aggressive behavior: Collective Security
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Henry Cabot Lodge

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  • Opposed to the League of Nations
  • Lead the Reservationists
  • Didn’t like committing American lives to Collective Security
  • Didn’t like article 10 of League of Nations (Treaty of Versailles)
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Reparations

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-Payments for war damages

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Irreconcilables

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  • Opposed the League of Nations

- isolationist senators who opposed anytreaty ending World War I that had a League of Nationsfolded into it

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Reservationists

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  • Opposed to the Fourteen Points as it was written
    • Believed Fourteen Points was too vague
    • Lead by Henry Cabot Lodge
  • Like the Treaty of Versailles, but didn’t like Article 10 (League of Nations)
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Influenza

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  • Flu virus
  • More people are killed than in all of WWI
  • Leads to Medical Schools being created (John Hopkins)
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Inflation

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  • Rising prices due to the decrease in the value of money

- Experienced after WWI

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Red Scare

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  • Fear that communists were working to destroythe American way of life
  • Government starts to arrest people (Palmer Raids)
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Palmer Raids

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  • Series of raids
    • People were arrested by police who were radicals or immigrants from southern or eastern Europe
    • Created by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer
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Nicola Socca and Bartolomeo Venzetti

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  • Italian immigrants and anarchists
    • charged with shooting and killing two men during a holdup at a shoe factory in a town
    • Put to death in the electric chair
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Warren G Harding

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  • Republican candidate for the 1920 election (won)
    • Rejected the League of Nations
      - Wanted to go back to a simpler time before Wilson was president
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Creditor Nation

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-country which is owed more money by othercountries than it owes other countries

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Reasons USA was drawn into WWI

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1.Zimmerman Note
2.Unrestricted Submarine Warfare (Lusitania)
-Americans die because Germans sink British cruise ship (100 americans)
3.Commercial ties w/ Allies
-Trade w/ England & French
4.Cultural Ties w/ England & French
-Common language w/ England
-France, England, and USA all have democratic government
France helped us get our freedom (repaying that debt)
-All of our laws are based on English common law
5.Wilson’s Idealism and Moralism
-People should live in freedom and peace
-Any other forms of government are bad (defeat everything else)

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Liberty Loans

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  • Help people show their support to the war

- Make a profit

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