Vocabulary Flashcards

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Treaty of Versailles

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US senate failed to ratify

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14 point plan

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Woodrow Wilsons plan for peace

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Armistice

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An agreement to stop fighting

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Imperialism

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Policy of powerful country’s to gain control of weaker countries

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Mobilize

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To prepare a nations military for war

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Woodrow Wilson

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Made a peace plan called the 14 points. Responsible for the formation of the League of Nations.

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Zimmerman telegram

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A telegram sent by the Germans to urge Mexico to attack the US in return for the lands in the southwestern US

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Western front

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A battle line that extends across Belgium and France

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U boats

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German attacks on shipping by submarines

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Trench warfare

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Used widely in WW1 in which soldiers of opposite sides shot at each other from ditches ( no mans land)

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League of Nations

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An organization of nations formed to maintain peace; USA did not join

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