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22 Cards in this Set
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Triple Entente (Allies)
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Great Britain, Belgium, Luxemburg, US, France, Russia, Italy
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Triple Alliance (Central Powers)
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Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire(Turkey), Mexico
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Neutral
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Switzerland, Spain, Netherlands
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1915 Lusitania
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torpedoed by a German U-Boat without warning 128 americans onboard died
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Zimmerman Telegram
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british gave wilson an intercepted message from the geramans to the gov't of mexico that proposed that in the event of war bw germany and the US, the mexicans should join germany against the US
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Bolshevik Revolution 1917
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new communist government led by Lenin, neogtiated a peace bw russia and the central powers, freeing german troops to fight on the western front
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trench warfare
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trenches sheltered troops while allowing limited fighting
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gas
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poisonus mustard gas, gas went to bottom of trenches. could attack entrenched soldiers without direct combat
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machine guns
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faster machine guns, more ammunition
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liberty bonds
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war bond sold to support the allied cause in World War I. It could be redeemed for the original value of the bond plus interest.
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war industries board 1917
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angency created to coordinate governement purchases of military supplies
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committee on public information
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under the direction of denver journalist, George Creel. supervised distribution of printed marterial. self censorship, portrayed germans as savages
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Espionage and Sedition Acts
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made it illegal for any public expression of opposition of the war. allowed officals to prosecute anyone who criticized the gov't or the presidnet
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Fourteen Points
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Presdient Wilson presented to congress the principles for which the nation was fighting.
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Treaty of Versailles
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was the peace treaty which officially ended World War I
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Leauge of Nations 1919
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permanenet international organization to oversee world affairs and prevent future wars
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Sacoo and Vanzetti 1920-1927
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two Italian immigrants charged with murder of a paymaster. case weak but bc anarchists believed guilty. later died in electric chair
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Henry Cabot Lodge
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Senator from Massachesetts. chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee he led fight against US participation in the League of Nations proposed by President Wilson
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Great Mirgation
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blacks migrated from the rural South to industrialized cities in search of the factory jobs the war was rapidly generating. Large black communites crowding the northern cities
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Chicago Race Riot 1919
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black teen swimming in lake Michigan driftd towards a white beach were he was stoned. blacks and whites fought in chicago retaliated killing 38
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Marcus Garvey
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black Jamaican. encouraged blacks to reject assimilation into white society and develop pride in their own race and culture.
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Red Scare
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heightened suspicion of Communists and other radicals, and the fear of widespread infiltration of Communists in U.S. gov't
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