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41 Cards in this Set
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allied powers
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Britain, Russia, and France that were together against the Central Powers.
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Central Powers
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Germany, Austria-hungry, the ottoman empire, and Bulgaria.
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Franz Ferdinand
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the heir to Austro-Hungarian throne.
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Gavrilo Princip
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He killed Ferdinand.
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Militarism
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The glorification of military strength.
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First Battle of the Marne
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The allies pushed the German lines back some 40 miles.
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No-Man's-land
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A thin strip of bombed-out territory strewn with barbed wire and land mines.
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trench warfare
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Warfare that was fought from trench to trench.
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Battle of the 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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He was a German who a\was known as the Red Baron.
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Edward Richenbacker
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Top American ace pilot with 26 kills.
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Sussex Pledge
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A renewal of an earlier promise not to sink liners without warning or without ensuring the passengers' safety.
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Robert Lansing
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He encouraged the trade of war materials with the allies.
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National Defense Act
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It increased the number of soldiers in the regular army from 90,000 to about 175,000 with an ultimate goal of 223,000.
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Zimmermann Note
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It was a cable that proposed a Mexican alliance with Germany.
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Jannette Rankin
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She was a representative from Montana who was among the opposition of war.
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Selective Service Act
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it was passed on May 18 1917 and it required men between 21 and 30 to register with local draft boards.
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William McAdoo
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The secretary of the treasury and Wilson;s son-in-law.
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John J. Pershing
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A general in command of the first U.S, troops reached France in late June 1971.
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Food Administration
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They were charged with regulating the production and supply of these essential resources.
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Herbert Hoover
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A prosperous mining engineer who had managed a food- relief campaign for stricken Belgium.
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War industries board
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It was a board that was coordinated by the government's central war agency.
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Bernard Baruch
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He had over all responsibility for allocating scarce materials, establishing production priorities, and setting prices.
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National war industries board
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It was composed of representatives from business and labor. It arbitrated disputes between workers and employers.
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Harriot Stanton Blatch
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The daughter of the suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She headed the food administrations speakers bureau.
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Juliette Gordon Low
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She was an active American volunteer.
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The Great Migration
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When hundreds of African Americans from the South moved to the Northern cities between 1915 and 1930.
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Committee on Public Information
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It was a propaganda campaign to encourage the American people to support the war.
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Espionage Act
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It outlawed acts of treason and made it a crime to utter prit write or publish any disloyal or abusive language criticizing the government the flag or the military.
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Sedition Act
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It outlawed acts of treason and made it a crime to utter prit write or publish any disloyal or abusive language criticizing the government the flag or the military.
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Bolsheviks
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A group of radical Russian socialists that seized power.
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Battle of the Argonne Forest
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There were some 120,000 American deaths.
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The Fourteen Points
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A program for world peace presented by Wilson.
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The league of nations
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It was the heart of the 14 points program.
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The big for
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Wilson, David Lloyd George, Gorges Clemenceau, Vittorio Orlando.
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David Lloyd George
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British Prime Minister
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Georges Vlemenceau
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French premier
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Vittorio Orlando
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Italian Prime Minister
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Reparations
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payments to the allies
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treaty of versailles
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it brought peace from the war.
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Henry Cabot Lodge
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The head of the senate committee on foreign relations and Wilson's longtime enemy.
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