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26 Cards in this Set
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Fran's Ferdinand
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The heir to the Austrian Hungarian throne
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Gavrilo princip
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Serbian nationalist
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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 Austrian Hungary the Ottoman Empire Bulgaria
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No mans land
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Strewn with barbed wire and miles of land
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Trench warfare
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Hiding in trenches a new type of fighting
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Battle of Somme
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British forces suffered some 60,000 casualties in a single day
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Manfred Von Richthofen
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Rich baron reported to have 80 kills or enemy air craft shot down
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Edward rickenbacker
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26 kills or enemy air craft shot down
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Sussex pledg
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A renewal of an earlier promise not to sink linkers 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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Increases the number of soldiers in the regular army from 90,000 to about 175000 with ultimate goal of 223,000
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Zimmerman Note
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The cable proposed and Mexican alliance with Germany
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Jeanette rankin
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Representatives of montana
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Selective service act
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On may 18,1917 if required men between ages of 21 and 32 register with local draft boards
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John j Pershing
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General
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Convoy system
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Merchant vessels transported troops supplies and volunteers through the submarine infested North America.
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William macadoo
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Was a secretary of treasury
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Food administration and the fuel administration
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And the fuel administration
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Herbert Hoover
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A prosperous mining engineer who had managed a food relief the campaign
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War industries board
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To government social agency
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Bernard Baruch
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Overall responsibly for allocating scarce materiaks
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National war board
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To ensure that the voice of labor was heard
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Harriet Stanton batch
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The daughter of Elizabeth caddy staton
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Juliette Gordon low
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An active American volunteer
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Great migration
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African Americans moving
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