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20 Cards in this Set
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What was the longest and bloodiest battle of World War I?
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Battle of Verdun
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Name a type of dumpling; a term for American soldiers.
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Doughboys
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The most important weapons of the war -
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Machine Guns
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Russia, France, Great Britain are a part of __________
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Allies
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Germans attacked France from 2 sides, captured Paris, and then march on to Russia
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Schlieffen Plan
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US military leader that defeated an entire platoon of German soldiers
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Sergeant Alvin York
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Patriotic feelings
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Nationalism
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German submarines
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U-boats
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Passenger ship torpetoed by the Germans
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Lusitania
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Germany/Austria-Hungary
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Central Powers
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Germans met with General Foch in a railroad car to sign an armistice in 1918
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Compeigne Forest
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Who said, "The lights are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime."
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Sir Edward Grey - He believed that the war was going to have terrible consequences.
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Who said, "the United States should help make the world 'safe for democracy'?"
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President Woodrow Wilson - he was persuading Congress to declare war on Germany by reminding Ameicans that they did not want countries who did not believe in democracy to become powerful.
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Why do poets write poetry?
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to make people think of something in a new way
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Battle of somme
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"the glory and the graveyard of our army"
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Battle of Jutland
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a battle at sea; no one wanted to give in
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Americans join forces in
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1917
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woman did what during the war
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took over men's jobs in factories and farms and making weapons
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President Gorbachev led the
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Russian Revolution
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Germans signed a peace treaty that did what
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took some of their land, limited military power, and took military ships
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