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Archduke Francis Ferdinand

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Austro-Hungarian Archduke assassinated by Serbians leading to the start of WWI

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Woodrow Wilson

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President who advocated neutrality before WWI; wrote 14 Points

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Eugene V. Debs

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Socialist leader who was put in jail for protesting WWI

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Vladimir Lenin

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Leader of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution; made Russia a communist country

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Sacco and Vanzetti

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Two Italian immigrants that were tried and executed for a crime they didn't commit

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Neutrality

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President Wilson's pledge to keep the U.S. out of war in Europe

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Entangling Web of Alliances

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Network of treaties in Europe that caused most European countries to declare war

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Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

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German policy to attack any cargo ship approaching its enemies shores

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Trench Warfare

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The war strategy that caused stalemate on the western front in WWI

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War for Democracy

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Speech made by President Wilson to justify the shift from neutrality to war

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War Industries Board

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An organization during WWI that controlled wartime production

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Espionage and Sedition Acts

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A law passed during WWI that restricted rights to criticize the government or war

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Food Rationing, Victory Gardens, and War Bonds

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Ways that Americans supported the war effort on the homefront during WWI

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Fourteen Points

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Woodrow Wilson's plan for world peace; Called for the creation of the League of Nations

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Reparations

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The harsh punishment Germany received after war, forcing payment of war damages.

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Nativism

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The attitude in the 1920's toward immigrants that led to quotas/restrictions on immigration

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The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand

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The event that sparked the beginning of the Great War in Europe in 1914

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The United State's entry into WWI

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This occurred in 1917, 3 years after the war had begun in Europe

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Lusitania

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The British Passenger ship that sunk, killing 128 Americans

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Zimmermann Note

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A telegram from Germany asking for Mexican aid against the United States

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Bolshevik Revolution

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This caused Russian to withdraw from WWI and close the Eastern Front

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Treaty of Versailles

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This ended WWI; It contained harsh reparations on Germany; Woodrow Wilson opposed it

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League of Nations

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An International peacekeeping organization formed after WWI; The United States rejected

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"Red Scare"

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A widespread fear of immigrants and radical political ideas following WWI

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Schenck vs. United States (1919)

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An United States Supreme Court case that allowed the government to limit speech where there is "clear and present danger"

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19th Amendment

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Women rewarded for working in factories and making sacrifices to support the war effort - Women's suffrage

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Kellogg-Briand Pact

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An act by the United States and other countries to outlaw war; An effort to avoid another war like WWI.

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Great Migration

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The movement of many African-Americans to the North to fill factory jobs during WWI

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Committee on Public Information

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A committee formed by the President to popularize WWI

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War Bonds ("Victory Loans"/"Liberty Loans")

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Paid for two-thirds of the war; Citizens bought bonds from the government that went toward the war effort

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Food Administration

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This group formed "Meatless Days and Wheatless Days" (-- Herbert Hoover): Food Rationing

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Victory Gardens

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Citizens grew their own food in order to conserve food for the troops in Europe

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Fuel Administration

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Rationed gas and heat oil - "Gasless Sundays" and "Lightless Nights"

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Daylight-Savings Time

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Made daytime last longer to reduce fuel consumption

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Women

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This group of people filled "manly" positions while men were at war

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Socialists and Labor Union leaders

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Became targets of the Espionage and Sedition Acts

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Anti-immigrant hysteria

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Nativism influenced; Germans, Austro-Hungarians, and other Eastern Europeans lost jobs, citizens refused to play German music, towns changed names, Schools stopped teaching German, and things with German names were called different things

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Most Americans were pro-____ following WWI

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pro-business