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39 Cards in this Set
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Militarism
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Glorification of military strength
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Franz Ferdinand
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Archduke to Austro-Hungaria
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Gavrilo Princip
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Killed the archduke and his wife
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Allied Powers
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Britain, France, Russia
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Central Powers
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Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria
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First Battle of the Marne
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Pushed German line back 40 miles
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No-man's-land
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Area between two sides
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Trench warfare
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Warfare fought with trenches and charges across no-man's-land
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Battle of the Somme
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4-month-long battle lost over 1 million lives
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Manfred von Richthofen
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German pilot with 80 kills
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Edward Rickenbacker
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Top American ace with 26 kills
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Sussex pledge
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Promise to sink liners
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Robert Lansing
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Encouraged trade with the Allies
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National Defense Act
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Increased number of soldiers in army
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Zimmermann Note
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Proposed an alliance between Mexico and Germany
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Jeannette Rankin
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Opposed war
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Selective Service Act
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Required men to register for the draft
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William McAdoo
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Secretary of the treasury
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Food Administration
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Regulating supply and production of foods
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Herbert Hoover
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Directed Food Administration
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WIB
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Coordinated government's central war agency
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Bernard Baruch
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Responsibility for allocating scarce materials
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NWLB
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Settled disputes between workers and employers
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Harriot Stanton Blatch
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Spoke for women during war
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Juliette Gordon Low
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Active American volunteer
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Great Migration
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African Americans from the South to the northern cities
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CPI
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Launched a propaganda campaign
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Espionage Act
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Outlawed treason
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Sedition Act
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Outlawed treason
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Bolsheviks
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Group of Russian radicals that took power
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Battle of the Argonne Forest
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Where America suffered about 120,000 casualties
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Fourteen Points
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Program for world peace
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League of Nations
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International body
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Big Four
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Wilson, Clemenceau, George, and Orlando
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David Lloyd George
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British prime minister
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Georges Clemenceau
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French premier
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Vittorio Orlando
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Italian prime minister
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Treaty of Versailles
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Final peace treaty of WWI
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Henry Cabot Lodge
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Lead the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
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