Ch.21

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Militarism

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The glorification of military strength.

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Franz Ferdinand

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Was the archduke of 1914

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Gavrilo Princip

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Was a Serbian nationalist

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Allied powers

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Ww1 alliance that included Britain, France, Russia, and later the U.S., and that fought against the Central Powers.

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Central Powers

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Ww1 alliance that included Austria-Hungary, Germany, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria.

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First Battle of the Marne

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Ww1 battle in which the Allies stopped a German advance near the Marne River.

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No-man's-land

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A strip of bombed out territory that separated the trenches of opposing armies along the Western Front during World War 1.

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Trench warfare

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World War 1 military strategy of defending a position by fighting from the protection of deep ditches.

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Battle of the Somme

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World War 1 battle in which the British lost some 60,000 troops in a single day.

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Manfred Von Richthofen

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Was a German Baron known as the Red Baron.

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Edward Rickenbacker

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Was the the top American ace with 26 kills.

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Sussex Pledge

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A Promise issued by German officials during World War 1 not to sink merchant vessels without warning or without assuring 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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Military "preparedness" program established prior to U.S. entry into World War1 that increased the size of the National Guard and the regular U.S. Army.

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Zimmerman Note

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Cable sent to Mexico by Germany's foreign secretary during World War 1;proposed an alliance between the two countries.

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Jeannette Rankin

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Was the Representative of Montana.

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Selective Service Act

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Law that initially required men between the ages of 21 and 30 to register for the draft.

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John J. Pershing

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Was born in 1860 and was the U.S. Army's most experienced combat officer.

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Convoy System

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Use of armed vessels to escort unarmed merchant vessels transporting troops, supplies, or volunteers through the North Atlantic during World War 1.

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William McAdoo

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Was the secretary of the treasury and Wilson's son-in-law.

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Food Administration

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World War 1 agency headed by Herbert Hoover; encouraged increased agricultural production and the conservation of existing food supplies.

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Herbert Hoover

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A prosperous mining engineer who had managed a food-relief campaign for war-stricken Belgium.

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War Industries Board (WIB)

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The work of all these boards was coordinated by the government's central war agency.

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Bernard Baruch

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Director and a Wall Street investor had an overall responsibility for allocating scarce materials, establishing production priorities, and setting prices.

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National War Labor Board (NWLB)

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Agency created during World War 1 to settle disputes between workers and employers.

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Harriot Stanton Blatch

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The daughter of suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, headed the Food Administrations. Speakers' Bureau.

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Juliette Gordon Low

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Was an active American volunteer.

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Great Migration

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Was the move of African Americans from the South to northern cities between 1915 and 1930.

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Committee on Public Information (CPI)

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A Agency created in 1917 to increase public support for World War 1.

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Espionage Act

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Federal law that outlawed acts of treason during World War 1.

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Sedition Act

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Federal Law enacted during World War 1 that made written criticism of the government a crime.

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Bolsheviks

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A group of radical Russian socialists.

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Battle of the Argonne Forest

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Successful Allied effort to push back German troops from a rail center in Sedan, France.

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Fourteen Points

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President Woodrow Wilson's plan for organizing post-World War 1 Europe and for avoiding future wars.

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League of Nations

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International body of nations formed in 1919 to prevent wars.

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Big Four

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Collective name given to U.S. president Woodrow Wilson , British prime minister David Lloyd George, French premier George's Clemenceau, and Italian prime minister Vittorio Orlando during the peace conference at Versailles.

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David Lloyd George

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Was a British prime minister.

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George's Clemenceau

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Was a French Premier

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Vittorio Orlando

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Was a Italian Prime Minister.

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Reparations

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Payments for damages and expenses in war.

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Treaty of Versailles

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Treaty ending World War 1 that required Germany to pay huge war reparations and established the League of Nations.

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Henry Cabot Lodge

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Was from Massachusetts and was the head of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and Wilson's longtime enemy, led the reservationists..