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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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•The Espionage Act of 1917 was a United States federal law passed shortly after entering World War I, on June 15, 1917, which made it a crime for a person: * To convey information with intent to interfere with the operation or success of the armed forces of the United States or to promote the
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