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pacifists--
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a person who believes in pacifism or is opposed to war or to violence of any kind
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taft-katsur agreement
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Japan agreed to accept the US presence in Hawaii and the Philippines and in exchange America agreed to give Japan a free hand in Korea
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Victoriano Huerta
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He overthrew Díaz's successor and established a repressive military dictatorship. Constitutionalist forces united against him and gained the support of U.S. Pres. Woodrow Wilson, who sent troops to assist the rebels. Huerta was defeated in 1914 and fled to Spain
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John J pershing
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led the American Expiditionary Forces in world war 1 and was regarded as a mentor by the generation of American generals who led the United States Army in Europe during world war one
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Franz Ferdinand
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As the heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire his assassination on 28 June 1914 sparked the First World War.
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american union against militarism
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anti military and anti war movement started before world war one
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filibuster
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act used by the members of congress where you talk or debate a bill in order to prevent its sighning
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trench warfare
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during ww1 the new tactic of digging trenches in the ground appeared and allowed soldiers more protection from new warfare technology such as the automatic machine gun
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liberty bonds-
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bought to pay for ww1 exenses and resold at 3-4.5% interest
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treaty of Versailles
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supposed to ensure a lasting peace by punishing Germany and setting up a League of Nations to solve diplomatic problems. Instead it left a legacy of political and geographical difficulties which have often been blamed, sometime solely, for starting the Second World War.
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Sedition Act •
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The Sedition Act is in Chapter 290 of the Statutes of Singapore. It was last revised in 1985
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14 Points •
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The Fourteen Points was a speech delivered by United States President Woodrow Wilson to a joint session of Congress on January 8, 1918. The address was intended to assure the country that the Great War was being fought for a moral cause and for postwar peace in Europe
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Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty •
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The Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty was signed on November 18, 1903 (two weeks after Panama's independence from Colombia). Phillipe Bunau-Varilla went to Washington, D.C. and New York City to negotiate the terms with several U.S. officials, most prominently, Secretary of State John Hay
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George Creel •
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George Creel (December 1, 1876 – October 2, 1953) was an investigative journalist, a politician, and, most famously, the head of the United States Committee on Public Information, a propaganda organization created by President Woodrow Wilson during World War I.
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CPI •
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A consumer price index (CPI) is a measure estimating the average price of consumer goods and services purchased by households
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WIB •
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As head of the War Industries Board (WIB), Bernard Baruch, a Wall Street financier, assumed management of the nation's economy in 1918
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Bernard Baruch
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•Baruch: economic advisor to United States Presidents
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Eugene V. Debs •
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Debs: United States labor organizer who ran for President as a socialist
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Espionage Act
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•law that made it illegal to directly or indirectly interfere with the war
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Lusitania
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ship sunk by german u boats that angered americans, bring the US closer to war
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The taking of the Canal Zone
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making of a canal by roosevelt to connect the oceans, furthered US power
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Open Door Policy (Notes)
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US policy regarding china, everyone gets equal rights to trade
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Roosevelt Corollary
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addition to monroe doctrine that said if latin american countries get in debt we intervene
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Sussex Pledge
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pledge by krauts that said they would only shink enemy naval ships
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“Dollar Diplomacy”
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taft policy promoting us business interests abroad
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League of Nations
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wilsons idea to keep peace, us never joined
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Pancho Villa
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mexican Dbag who attacked american border towns to anger government and help his cause
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Zimmerman Telegram
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telegram intercepted by US from germany to mexico telling them to attack us
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William Jennings Bryan
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wilson sec of state, quit before we joined WWI due to disliking wilsons "neutrality"
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Hay Herran Convention
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convention that wrote hay-bunau-varilla treaty
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Bernard Baruch
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american financeer who headed the war industries board
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Herbert Hoover
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headed food administration board, started a program to provide food for belgium
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Eugene V Debs
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labor leader, socialist, ran for president in 1920, arrested during WWI
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Hay-Pauncefort Treaty
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gave the US more power over building the canal, Uk stepped aside
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Bolshevik
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communist revolution in russia that overthrew the government, russia soon withdrew from WWI
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