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46 Cards in this Set
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Entered World War I when German troops crossed into Belgium.
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Great Britain
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How many torpedoes hit the Lusitania?
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one
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Psychological illness or a nervous breakdown in WWI was referred to as
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“shell shock”
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Death that sparked the Great War
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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Soldier from Tennessee who took out a German machine gun nest and turned in 132 German prisoners of war. He won the French Cross of War and the Congressional Medal of Honor
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Alvin York
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Airplanes were used primarily in WWI for
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surveillance
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served in segregated units, often as labor units, and were only given low ranks as officers
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African American soldiers in WWI
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Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire (Turkey)
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Central Powers
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4 long term causes of WWI
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Militarism
Alliances Imperialism Nationalism |
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June 28, 1914
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Franz Ferdinand and Sophie's wedding anniversary and the date they were both assassinated.
Serbian independence day |
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The U.S. found out about the German plan to have Mexico go to war against the U.S. in a secret coded message known as
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The Zimmerman Note or Zimmerman telegram
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Assassinated Franz Ferdinand
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Gavrilo Princip
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Woodrow Wilson's main enemy in the Senate over the ratification of the League of Nations
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Henry Cabot Lodge
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WWI soldiers were nicknamed
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doughboys
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leader of the American forces (American Expeditionary Force) in WWI
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John J Pershing
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April 6, 1917
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Congress granted Woodrow Wilson's request for a declaration of war
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area between the trenches
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no man's land
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common diseases in the trenches
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trench foot and trench mouth
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honorable name for a pilot who had shot down five or more planes
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ACE
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president of the U.S. during WWI
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Woodrow Wilson
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Other names for World War I
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The Great War
The War to End all Wars |
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heir to the throne of Austria Hungary
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Franz Ferdinand
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Germany promised not to sink any other passenger ships in return the British ending their blockade on food and fertilizer
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Sussex Pledge
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Treaty that ended WWI
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Treaty of Versailles
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Famous unit of black soldiers in WWI to which Henry Johnson (only American to have a battle named after him) belonged
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Harlem Hell Fighters
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11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918
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War ended
Armistice signed NOT THE TREATY SIGNED |
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We avoided all things ___ during the war including names like hamburger and frankfurter
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German
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Choosing your own form of government and the freedom not to become a colony of someone else
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self determination
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The Allies
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Great Britain
France Russia the U.S. |
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The Big Four
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Great Britain
France U.S. Italy |
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International peacekeeping organization included in the Versailles treaty
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League of Nations
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The U.S. Senate never _____ the Treaty of Versailles and therefore never joined the League of Nations
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ratified (formally approved)
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Woodrow Wilson traveled to Paris with this list of items including freedom of the seas, equality of trade, arms reductions, open agreements, and the establishment of the League of Nations.
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14 points
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New weapons of WWI
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tanks
barbed wire poison gas airplanes machine guns trenches |
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Badly armed, poorly trained, and completely unprepared but full of courage and pep...they refreshed the Allied troops as Germany's strength was on the decline
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American soldiers
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At the outbreak of war, the U.S. was officially
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neutral
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Reasons for U.S. entry into the war
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Americans sympathized with the Allies
Pressure from American businessmen Sinking of passenger ships/unrestricted submarine warfare by German u boats Russian Revolution Zimmerman Note Wilson wanted to participate in the peace settlement |
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The Espionage and Sedition Acts made it illegal to ...
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...speak out against the war
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Gavrilo Princip belonged to a Serbian terrorist organization known as the
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Black Hand
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A large # of African Americans left the South for the North for factory jobs during the war
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The Great Migration
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Daylight savings time was begun by the U.S. Fuel Administration
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to conserve fuel
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To prepare for war, the U.S. raised money through the sale of
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Liberty Bonds
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The Lusitania was carrying bullets and shrapnel in barrels of
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cheese
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How long did it take the Lusitania to sink?
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Less than 20 minutes
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The Lusitania was a ___ passenger ship
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British
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Current theory is that the Lusitania sank from the explosion of
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coal dust
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