Wilson/WWI Flashcards

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Moral Diplomacy

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Wilson’s foreign policy that said the United States should support struggling democracies

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Underwood Tariff

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started the income tax before the 16th Amendment and significantly cut out tariffs

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Federal Reserve System

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created a national bank that only lends to other banks, controls the nation’s money supply, and sets interest rates. this was not very democratic

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Federal Trade Commission

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breaks up monopolies and trust on an ongoing basis

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Clayton Anti-Trust Act

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strengthened the Sherman Anti-Trust and said Unions are not considered trust

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New Freedom

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Wilson’s plan to free the people from banks, corporations, and war

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Alice Paul

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leader of the National Women’s Party, the last suffragette

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Margaret Sangar

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started Planned Parenthood, the first woman to talk about reproductive freedom and started Second Wave Feminism

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Nationalism

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extreme patriotism

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Militarism

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building up of a country’s military; often leads to an arm’s race

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Triple Entente

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Pre-WWI alliance of Britain, France, Russia

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Triple Alliance

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Pre-WWI alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy

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Franz Ferdinand

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Arch-Duke of Austria-Hungary, is assassinated in Serbia

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Gavrilo Princip

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Is the one who assassinates Franz Ferdinand

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Black Hand

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Serbian Nationalist Group that organized the assassination of Franz Ferdinand because Serbia did not like being owned by Hungary

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Kaiser Wilhem II

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King of Germany during WWI

17
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Tsar Nicholas II

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king of Russia during WWI

18
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David Lloyd-George

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prime minister of England during WWI

19
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Georges Clemenceau

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prime minister of France during WWI

20
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U-Boat

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German subs

21
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What was Germany’s plan to fight a two-front war called?

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Von Schlieffen Plan

22
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Battle O’ the Marne

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battle in France that was in a stalemate for the next three/four years

23
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What was the British passenger ship that sank because of German U-boats and had Americans on board called?

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RMS Lusitania

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Sussex Pledge

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German’s promise to stop unrestricted sub warfare

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Allied Powers

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Alliance between Britain, France, Russia, and Italy during WWI

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Central Powers

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Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire

27
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Why did the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) join the war?

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To get back at Britain

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What two other continents, besides North America and Europe, are involved in the war?

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Asia and Africa

29
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What were the four diplomacy policies?

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  1. Big Stick
  2. Dollar Diplomacy
  3. Moral Diplomacy
  4. Isolationism