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42 Cards in this Set
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What is militarism?
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Glorification of military strength.
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What is Franz Ferdinand?
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the heir to the Austro Hungarian throne, visited Sarajevo (sahr- YAY-voh), the Bosnian capital.
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What is Gavrilo Princip?
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(PREENT-seep) stepped out of the crowd.
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What is Allied Powers?
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of Britain, France, and Russia.
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What is Central Powers?
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of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria.
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What is the first Battle of the Marne?
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the Allies pushed the German lines back some 40 miles.
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What is no-man's-land?
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strewn with barbed wire and land miles called no-man's-land.
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What is trench warfare?
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emerged on the western front.
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What is Battle of the Somme?
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British forces suffered some 60,000 casualties in a single day.
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What is Manfred von Richthofen?
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known as the Red Baron.
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Who is Edward Richenbacker?
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He had a reported 80 kills, or enemy aircraft shot down.
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What is 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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Who is Robert Lansing?
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encouraged the trade of war materials with the Allies.
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What is National Defense Act?
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increased the number of soldiers in the regular army from some 90,000 to about 175,000, with an ultimate goal of 223,000.
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What is Zimmermann Note?
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the cable proposed a Mexican alliance with Germany.
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Who is Jeannette Rankin?
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of Montana was among the opposition.
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What is Selective Service Act?
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on May 18, 1917.
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Who is John J. Pershing?
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the first U.S. troops reached France in late June 1917.
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What is convoy system?
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proved quite effective.
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Who is William McAdoo?
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was secretary of the treasury and Wilson's son-in-law.
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What is Food Administration?
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and the Fuel Administration.
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Who is 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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What is War Industries Board?
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the work of all these boards was coordinated by the governments central war agency the WIB.
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Who is Bernard Baruch?
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had overall responsibility for allocating scare materials, establishing production priorities and setting prices.
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What is National War Labor Board?
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(NWLB) in April 1918.
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Who is Harriot Stanton Blatch?
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the daughter of suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton headed the Food Administration's Speakers Bureau.
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Who is Juliette Gordon Low?
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was an active American volunteer.
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What is Great Migration?
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Mass migration of some 60,000 English people to the Americans in the 1600s.
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What is Committee on Public Information?
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(CPI) in the spring of 1917.
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What is Espionage Act?
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in June 1917.
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What is Sedition Act?
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a year later.
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What is Bolsheviks?
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a group of radical Russian socialists until November.
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What is Battle of the Argonne Forest?
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the americans suffered some 120,000 casualties in the Battle of the Argonne Forest.
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What is Fourteenth Points?
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a program for world peace.
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What is League of Nations?
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was the heart of the program.
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What is Big Four?
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Collective name given to U.S. president Woodrow Wilson, British prime minister David Lloyd George, French premier Georges Clemenceau and Italian prime minister Vittorio Orlando during the peace conference at Versailles.
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Who is David Lloyd George?
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French premier.
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Who is Georges Clemenceau?
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is a Italian prime minister.
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Who is Vittorio Orlando?
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is a British prime minister,French premier,and Italian prime minister
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What is reparations?
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Payments for damages and expenses in war.
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What is Treaty of Versailles?
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took place in the palace of Versailles just outside Paris, on June 28,1919.
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Who is Henry Cabot Lodge?
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of Massachusetts, head of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and Wilson's longtime enemy, led the reservationists.
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