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Nationalism

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Devotion to your country

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Balkans

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Mountains near Austria Hungary and Serbia where WWI began

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Militarism

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Promote your military

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Triple alliance

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Austria-Hungary, Germany, Italy

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Triple Entente

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Great Britain, France, Russia

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Francis Ferdinand

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Arch Duke of Austria-Hungary, his assassination started WWI

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Sarajevo

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Where Ferdinand was assassinated

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Gravrilo Princip

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Assassinated Ferdinand

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Allied Powers

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France, Russia, Great Britain, Serbia

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Battle of the Marne

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Proved that trench warfare would dominate the western front

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5 new weapons of WWI

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Machine guns, tanks, poison gas (chlorine, mustard), air planes, submarines

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No man’s land

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Land between trenchs

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13
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Casualties

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Total number of soldiers who are killed, wounded, taken prisoner, MIA

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14
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Melting pot

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German-Americans and Irish-Americans

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Isolationists

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Believed war was none of Americas business

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Contraband

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Weapons that you would sneak into a country

17
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Lusitania

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May 7th, 1915 British passenger ship carrying 128 Americans was sunk by Germany

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Sussex

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French passenger ship sunk by German subs

19
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Sussex Pledge

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Germany pledged not to sink anymore unarmed ships

20
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Preparedness

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By the end of 1915, president Wilson began making preparations for US involvement in war

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“He kept us out of war”

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Woodrow Wilson’s campaign slogan

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Zimmerman Note

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If the US declared war on Germany then Germany would help Mexico take back Arizona, New Mexico, Texas

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Selective service act

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Authorized a draft of young men for military service in Europe

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Western front

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Whoever won the western front would win the war

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Internationalists

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Believed US should play in a role in world affairs just not wars

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