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42 Cards in this Set
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militarism
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military strength
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Franz Ferdinand
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heir to Austro-Hungarian throne
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Gavrilo Princip
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stepped out of crowd
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Allied Powers
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of Britian, France
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Central Powers
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of Germany
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First Battle of the Marne
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the Allies
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no-man's land
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barbed wire land mines
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trench warfare
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emerged on western front
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Battle of the Somme
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British forces
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Manfred von Richthofen
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Red Baron
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Edward Rickenbaker
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with 26 kills
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Sussex pledge
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renewal of earlier promise
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Robert Lansing
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encouraged trade or war materials
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National Defense Act
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increased number of soldiers
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Zimmermann Note
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cable proposed Mexican alliance
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Jeannette Rankin
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of Montana
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Selective Service Act
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on may 18, 1917
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John J. Pershing
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1st U.S. troops
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convoy system
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proved quite effective
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William McAdoo
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secretary of the treasury
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Food Administration
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Fuel Administration
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Herbert Hoover
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mining engineer
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War Industries Board
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WIB
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Bernard Baruch
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responsibility for allocating materials
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National War labor Board
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in April 1918
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Harriot Stanton Blatch
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daughter of suffragist Elizabeth Stanton
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Juliette Gordon law
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active American volunteer
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Great Migration
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of African Americans
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Committee on Public Information
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CPI
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Espionage Act
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in June 1917
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Sedition Act
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outlawed acts of treason
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Bolsheviks
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group of radical socialists
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Battle of Argonne Forest
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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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heart of the program
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Big Four
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Wilson, British prime minister, French premier, italian prime minister
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David Lloyd George
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one of the big four
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Georgess Clemenceau
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one of the big four
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Vittorio Orlando
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one of the big four
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reparations
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payments to the allies
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Treaty of Versailles
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took place in palace
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Henry Cabot Lodge
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of Massachusetts
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