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World War 1 AH > Pages 5-9 > Flashcards

Pages 5-9 Flashcards

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Herbert Hoover

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Head of the food administration which set prices for agriculture products

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Food aministration

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Set prices higher for wheat and other crops to increase production

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CPI

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Committee on public information, encouraged public support for the war

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George Creel

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Leader of the CPI

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5
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Espionage act

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Allowed post office to ban treasonable newspaper, magazines, printed materials from mail

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Sedition act

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Used to prosecute socialists, political radials, passisvists

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Eugene Debs

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Leader of the socialist party and 1st person to be tried under the sedition act

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Schenck v. U.S

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Upheld sedition act saying that the 1st amendment is illegal

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The Kaiser/Beast of Berlin

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Popular movies by CPI by portraying Germans as arrogant and ruthless

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Vladimir Lenin

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Leader of the communist revolution in Russia

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Treaty of Brest litovsk

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Allowed Russia to withdraw from WWI

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John J Pershing

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US commander of American forces in WWI

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11-11-1918

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Date for the end of WWI, Germany surrounded to the allies

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14
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14 points

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Peace without victory

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Self determination

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Right of people to choose their own form of gov

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Henry Cabot Lodge

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A republican foreign policy expert who was furious when president Wilson traveled to Versailles with no republicans

17
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War guilt clause

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Idea that Germany caused the war

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Irreconcilables

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US senators who opposed any treaty that had the League of Nations in it

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Article 10

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Called for the mutual defense by the signers of the treaty

20
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A. Mitchell Palmer

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US attorney general who had a bomb mailed to him

21
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Planer raids

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Palmer had thousands of immigrants arrested

22
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Sacco and Vanzetti

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Convicted of murdering 2 men based on the fact they were Italian

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Warren G. Harding

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Elected president in 1920, gave the final rejection of the treaty of Versailles

24
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Normalcy

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Harding was calling for simpler times

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