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Chapter Nineteen WWI Flashcards

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headed by Bernard Baruch

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War Industries Board

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coordinate production of war material

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War Industries Board

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controlled the flow of raw materials

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War Industries Board

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told industries what to produce

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War Industries Board

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headed by Herbert Hoover

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Food Administration

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created to increase food production and reduce consumption

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Food Administration

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Hooverize

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Food Administration

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Victory Gardens

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Food Administration

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headed by Harry Garfield

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Fuel Administration

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manage nations fuel and coal

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Fuel Administration

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daylight savings time

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Fuel Administration

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shortens work week for non war material

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Fuel Administration

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put in charge of shipbuilding

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US Shipping Board

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headed by William Howard Taft and Frank Walsh

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National War Labor Board

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mediate labor dispute

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National War Labor Board

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improved wages and working conditions

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National War Labor Board

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headed by George Creel

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Committee on Public Information

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also called Creel Commission

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Committee on Public Information

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created to sell Americans on the war

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Committee on Public Information

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crisis took place here before the war

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MExico

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Wilson sent troops here to look for Pancho Villa

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Mexico

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Zimmerman Note was sent to this country by Germany

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Mexico

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Archduke Ferdinand was killed here

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Sarajevo, Bosnia

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Sept 1914- British and French forces stop Germans

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1st Battle of Marne

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invasion of this country by Germans started WWI

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Belgium

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Allies push Germans back to this area and trench warfare begins

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Ypres

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first time American fought on European soil

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Cantigny

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combined French and American force stops Germans form taking Paris

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Chateau-Thiery

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last major German attempt to take Paris

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Reims

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fist American offensive

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Battle of St. Mihiel

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last major Allied offensive led to Germans being pushed back into Germany

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Meuse-Argonne

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majority of war fought here

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France

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trenches were in northern part of this country

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France

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Mexican bandit who raided in the US

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Pancho Villa

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President of the US during WWI

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Woodrow Wilson

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French general and Allied Supreme Commander

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Field Marshal Foch

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Italian leader at the Treaty of Versailles

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Vittorio Orlando

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British leader at the Treaty of Versailles

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David Lloyd George

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French leader at the Treaty of Versailles

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George Clemenceau

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Massachusetts Governor who ended the Boston Police Strike

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Gov. Calvin Coolidge

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US Attorney General whose house was bombed

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A. Mitchell Palmer

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Republican Presidential candidate in 1920, used motto of “normalcy”

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Warren Harding

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Commander of the US Atlantic fleet, and instituted the convoy system

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Admiral Sims

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Mexican general who overthrew the Madero gov’t

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Gen. Huerta

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leader of the American Expeditionary Force

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John J. Pershing

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Republican Presidential candidate in 1916

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Charles Evans Hughes

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German ambassador to Mexico who received an incendiary telegram

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Arthur Zimmerman

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head of the US Committee of Public Information

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George Creel

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elected Mexican President to replace military rule

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Cuanza

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heir to the Austrian-Hungary throne in 1914

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Archduke Ferdinand

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head of the minority Bolshevik party

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Vladimir Lenin

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head of the US National War Labor Board

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  1. William Taft

2. Frank Walsh

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leader of the German Empire during WWI

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Wilhelm II

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head of the US War Industry Board

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Bernard Baruch

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Senator who led the Reservationists

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Henry Cabot Lodge

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first head of the new Federal Burea of Investigation

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J. Edgar Hoover

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radical Serb whose pistol shot started WWI

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Gavillo Princip

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head of the US Fuel Administration

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Harry Garfield

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Russian czar who was forced to resign by the new provisional government

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Nicholas II

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head of the US Food Administration

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Herbert Hoover

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Democratic Presidential candidate in 1920

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James Cox

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anti-labor head of US Steel

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Elbert Gray

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Four reasons for WWI

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  1. alliance
  2. Militarism
  3. nationalism
  4. imperialism
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reasons why US sympathized with Allies

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  1. shared heritage, language, and political ideas with Great Britain
  2. historical links between US and France
  3. Britain and France were major US trading partners
  4. Americans loaned money to Allies
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reasons why US declared war

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  1. Zimmerman Note
  2. unrestricted submarine warfare
  3. loss of American life
  4. help Allied cause
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provisions of the 14 Points

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  1. called end to secret diplomacy
  2. reduction in arms
  3. establishment of freedom of seas
  4. removal of economic barriers to trade
  5. readjusted colonial claims
    6-13. specific territorial claims
  6. League of Nations
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problems at the Paris Peace Conference

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  1. Britain and France wanted to punish Germany
  2. Wilson 14 Points was met with a lot of opposition
  3. absence of Russia
  4. secret negotiations went on
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provisions of Treaty of Versailles

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  1. Germany had to accept full responsibility for the war
  2. Germany was forced to pay reparations
  3. Germany was forced to disarm
  4. Germany loss all its colonies
  5. formation of new countries
  6. formation of League of Nations
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Great Britain

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Ally

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France

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Ally

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Russia

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Ally

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Serbia

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Ally

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Belgium

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Ally

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Romania

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Ally

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Portugal

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Ally

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Japan

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Ally

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Italy

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Ally

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US

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Ally

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Spain

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Neutral

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Sweden

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Neutral

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Switzerland

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Neutral

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Netherlands

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Neutral

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Norway

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Neutral

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Denmark

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Neutral

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Germany

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Central

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Austria-Hungary

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Central

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Turkey

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Central

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Bulgaria

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Central

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Poland

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New

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Yugoslavia

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New

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Czechoslavakia

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New

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Finland

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New

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Austria

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New

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Hungary

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New

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Estonia

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New

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Lithuania

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New

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Latvia

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New

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the system of travel where cargo ships are grouped together and escorted by warships to Europe

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convoy

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items that are considered prohibited materials

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contraband

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Triple Alliance

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  1. Germany
  2. Austria-Hungary
  3. Italy
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agreements between nations to protect each other

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alliance

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idea that people who belong to a nation should have their own country

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self-determination

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Triple Entante

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  1. Great Britain
  2. France
  3. Russia
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spying to acquire secret government information

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espionage

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type of warfare used in WWI that consisted of digging miles of ditches

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trench warfare

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British passenger ship that was sunk by German that outraged Americans

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Lusitana

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movement of African Americans from the South to the industrialized North

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Great Migration

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act that established penalties for anyone aiding the enemy

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Espionage Act

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list of demands issued to nations

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ultimatum

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another name for u-boat

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submarine

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information designed to influence public opinion

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propaganda

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German promise not to sink unarmed ships without warning

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Sussex Pledge

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German communication to Mexico that proposed an alliance between German and Mexico and Germany would return land to Mexico for their support if the US got involved in the war

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Zimmerman Note

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act that expanded the size of the US military to a lottery system

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Selective Service Act 1917

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Wilson’s plan for peace

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14 Points

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two way the US paid for the war

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  1. increasing taxes

2. selling bonds

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name given to the are between the trenches

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no man’s land

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period during a war when there is no real winner or no one is making any gains

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stalemate

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agreement to stop fighting

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armistice

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two fronts of WWI

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  1. Eastern

2. Western

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treaty that ended the war

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Treaty of Versailles

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payments made by a losing nation to the winning nations to pay for the cost of the war

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reparations

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three ways the Senate split over the League of Nations

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  1. Irreconcilables
  2. Reservationist
  3. Democrats
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formal name of the US troops in WWI

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American Expeditionary Force

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applies to the cost of food, clothing, shelter and other essentials that people need to survive

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cost of living

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name given to a nationwide panic that Communists might gain power

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Red Scare

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won WWI

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Allies

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three ways the world was divided during WWI

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  1. Central Powers
  2. Allied Powers
  3. Neutral Countries
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nickname given to US troops in WWI

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Doughboys

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name given to the raids organized to investigate various radical groups

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Palmer Raids

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name of the Republicans who would never support the League of Nations

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Irreconcilables

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expelling someone from the US

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deport

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Big Four Countries and men who represented them

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  1. US- Wilson
  2. Italy- Vittorio Orlando
  3. Great Britain- David Lloyd George
  4. France- George Clemencea
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strike that involves all workers living in a certain location not in just one particular industry

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general strike

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three problems in the US after the war

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  1. economic problems
  2. cost of living increased
  3. fear of communism
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international peace organization proposed by Wilson

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League of Nations

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national police force set up during the Red Scare

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FBI

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court case that upheld the constitutionality of the Espionage and Sedition Acts

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Schenk vs. US

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national policy of avoiding involvement in world affairs

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isolationism

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five things that lead to the end of Progressivism

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  1. WWI
  2. economic problems
  3. racial unrest
  4. labor unrest
  5. Red Scare

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