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WW1 Flashcards

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Nationalism

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Feelings of patriotis

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Chancellor Otto von Bismark

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Was the Prince of Bismarck, the Duke of Lauenberg, known as Otto van Bismark

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Militarism

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The greater the military strength you have, the stronger your country is

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Alsace – Lorraine

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A territory created by the German Empire in 1871, after it annexed from most of Alsace and the
Moselle department of Lorraine following it’s victory in the Franco -Prussian War

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Arch Duke Ferdinand

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An Archduke of Austria-Este, Austro-Hungrian and Royal Prince of Hungary and of Bohemia

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Gavrilo Princip

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A member of Young Bosnia, a South Slav nationalist organization seeking an end
to Austro-Hungarian ruling in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Mobilize

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Preparing and organizing for an active service

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Central Powers

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Consisting of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria
(also known as the Quadruple Empire)

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Allied Powers

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Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, the United States and China

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Trench warfare

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Type of land warfare using occupied fighting lines consisting largely of trenches,
From which troops are significantaly protected from the enemy’s small arms fire
And are substantially sheltered from artillery

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Stalemate

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A position counting such as a draw, in which a player is not in check but cannot
Move except into check

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U-Boats

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Abbreviation to Underseeboot (“underseaboat”)

A german submarine , creating the destruction of enemy shipping by German U-boats.

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Neutral

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To not help or support either side in a conflict

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Lusitania

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Was a British oceanliner that a German submarine that sank on WW1 causing a
Major diplomic uproar

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William Jennings Bryan

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An american ortator and politican from Nebraska, and a dominant force in the populist
Wing of the Democratic Party

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Kaiser Wilhelm I

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He was the King of Prussia and the first German Emporer. And Head of State of a united
Germany.

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Woodrow Wilson

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An american politican, an acidemic who served as the 28th president of the US from 1913 to 1921

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Zimmermann note

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A diplomatic communication issued from the German Forgein Office in January 1917.

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Committee on Public Information (CPI)

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An independent agency of the government of the US created to influence US public opinion regarding to the
American participation in WW1

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Espionage

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Practice of spying or of using spies, mostly by governments to obtain political and military information

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Sedition

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Conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch

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Selective Service Act

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Authorized the federal government to raise a national Army for the American entry into WW1

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Jane Addams

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Known as the “mother” of Social Work was an american activist/reformer, social worker, public philosopher,
Sociologist, author, and leader in Womans Sufferage Movement

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Jeanette Rankin

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An american politican and womans rights advocate, and the first woman to hold national office in the US

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National War Labor Board

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May refer to either of two US government agencies established to mediate labor disputes in wartime: NWLB

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American Expeditionary Forces (AEF)

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was the expeditionary force of the United States Army during World War I.

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General John J. Pershing

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A senior US army officer, most famous as the commander of the American Expeditionary force on the
Western front in WW1

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Bolsheviks

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Member if the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, renamed the Communist Party after seizing power in the October Revolution of 1917

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Communist

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Person who supports or believes in the principles of communism

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Vladimir Lenin

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Was a Russian communist revolutionary politican, and political theorist

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Ferdinand Foch

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A french general and marshal of france, Great Britain, and Poland (surpreme allied commander in WWI)

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Alvin York

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Was one of the most decorated US army soldiers of WWI

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Harlem Hellfighters

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The 369th Infantry Reginment formely known as the 15th New York National Guard Reginment

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Liberty Bonds

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was a war bond that was sold int eh US ti support the Allied Alliance

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Strategy

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A planning of action or policy designed to achieve a major or overall aim

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Kaiser Wilhelm II

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Was the last German emperor and king of Prussia, ruling the German Empire and the kingdom of Prussia

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Armistice

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A formal agreement of warring parties to stop fighting

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Influenza

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A highly contagious viral infection of the respiratory passage causing a fever, severe aching, and catarrah.

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Fourteen Points

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a statement of principles of peace negotiations that was to be used to end WWI

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League of Nations

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was an international organization, based in Geneva, Switzerland, created after the First WW to provide a place for resolving international disputes

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Paris Peace Conference

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the meeting of the Allied victors, following the WWI to setting the peace terms for the defeated Central Powers, following the armistices of 1918

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Big Four

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4 people who were leaders in Paris in the year of 1919 for the WWI peace-treaty talks

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Reparations

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a making of amends for who a wrong has done, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged

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Treaty of Versailles

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the treaty that brought WWI to an end

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Henry Cabot Lodge

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an American Republican Senator and historian from Massachusetts.

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Arms Race

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competition between nations for superiority in development and accumulation of weapons

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Alliance

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union or association formed for mutual benefit

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