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34 Cards in this Set
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casualty
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killed, wounded, or missing soldier
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contraband
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weapons and other war supplies
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U-boat
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a German submarine
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Lusitania
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English passenger ship sunk by a German U-boat, killing American civilians
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Zimmermann note
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a telegram in which the German foreign minister proposed an alliance with Mexico against the U.S.
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Alsace-Lorraine
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French region lost to German states in 1871
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militarism
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a glorification of the military
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Francis Ferdinand
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archduke of Austria-Hungary who was assassinated in 1914
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William II
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the German emperor
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Western Front
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trenches that stretched from the Belgian coast to the Swiss border with France, forming the battlefield between the Allies and the Central Powers in Western Europe
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Selective Service Act
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law that established a military draft in 1917
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Bernard Baruch
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head of the War Industries Board, which regulated businesses related to the war effort
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Committee on Public Information (CPI)
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Committee on Public Information, which worked to convince the public that the war was just
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George Creel
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director of the CPI
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conscientious objector
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a person whose moral or religious views forbid participation in war
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Espionage Act
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1917 law that gave postal authorities power to ban treasonable or seditious materials from the mail
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Great Migration
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the movement of more than 1.2 million African Americans from the South to northern cities between 1910 and 1920
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convoy
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group of ships that traveled together for protection against German U-boats
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Vladimir Lenin
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radical communist leader who took over Russia in March 1917
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John J. Pershing
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General who led American forces in Europe
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Fourteen Points
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Wilson’s plan for lasting peace through international openness and cooperation
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self-determination
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the right of people to choose their own form of government
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League of Nations
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world organization to promote peaceful cooperation between countries
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Henry Cabot Lodge
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Republican Senator who opposed ratification of the Treaty of Versailles
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reparations
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payments for war damages
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“irreconcilables”
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Senate isolationists who opposed any treaty that included a League of Nations
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“reservationists”
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Senators who opposed the Treaty of Versailles as written but were open to compromise
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influenza
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the flu virus, which caused a deadly epidemic in 1918
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inflation
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rising prices
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Red Scare
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widespread fear of radicals and communists
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Palmer Raids
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a series of raids, arrests, and deportations of suspected radicals, most of whom never received a trial
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Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
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Italian anarchists convicted and executed for murder despite scarce evidence against them
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Warren G. Harding
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elected president in 1920 by promising Americans a “return to normalcy”
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creditor nation
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a nation that lends more money than it borrows
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