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42 Cards in this Set
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Militarism
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Glorification of military strength
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Franz Ferdinand
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The heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne
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Gavrilo Princip
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Serbian nationalist who killed the archduke and his wife
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Allied powers
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Britain, France, and Russia
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Central powers
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Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria
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First battle of the Marne
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Allies pushed German lines back some 40 miles
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No-man's-land
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Separating the two sides with a thin strip of bombed-out territory
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Trench warfare
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Fighting that emerged from the western front
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Battle of the Somme
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British suffered 60,000 casualties in a single day
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Manfred Von Richthofen
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Known as the Red Baron
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Edward Rickenbacker
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Top American ace with 26 kills
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Sussex pledge
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Renewal of an earlier promise not to sink liners without warning or without ensuring the passengers safety
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Robert Lansing
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Encouraged the trade of war materials with the allies
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National defense act
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Increased the number of soldiers in the regular army from 90,000 to 175,000
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Zimmermann note
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Proposed Mexican alliance with germany
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Jeannette Rankin
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Was among the opposition
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Selective Service Act
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Congress passed this in May 18, 1917
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John. J. Pershing
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Commanded the first U.S. troops that reached France in late June 1917
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Convoy system
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Escorted by U.S. warships, merchant vessels transported troops, supplies, and volunteers through the submarine-infested North Atlantic
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William McAdoo
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Secretary of the treasury and Wilson's son-in-law
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Food administration
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Charged with regulating the production and supply of these essential resources
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Herbert Hoover
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The food administration chose this man to direct things
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War Industries Board
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The work of all boards was coordinated by this government's central war agency
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Bernard Baruch
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Had overall responsibility for allocating scarce materials
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National war labor board
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Established in April 1918 by president Wilson
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Harriot Stanton blatch
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Daughter of suffragist Elizabeth cady Stanton
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Juliet Gordon low
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Active American volunteer
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Great migration
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Job opportunities and the chances of higher wages brought about one of the most important population shifts in US history
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Committee on Public Information
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Established by president Wilson
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Espionage Act
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The congress passed this in 1917
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Sedition Act
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The congress passed this act in 1918
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Bolsheviks
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Group of radical Russian socialists
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Battle of the Argonne Forest
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Americans suffered 120,000 casualties in this battle
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Fourteen points
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Program for world peace
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League of Nations
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Heart of the fourteen points program
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Big four
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Wilson, David Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau, and Vittorio Orlando
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David Lloyd George
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Was the British Prime Minister
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Georges Clemenceau
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Was the French Premier
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Vittorio Orlando
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Was the Italian prime minister
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Reparations
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Payments to the allies
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Treaty of Versailles
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Took place of Versailles, just outside of Paris
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Henry Cabot Lodge
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Head of the senate committee
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