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40 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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the heir to Austro-Hungarian throne
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Gavrilo Princip
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stepped out of the crowd
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Allied Powers
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Britian, France, & Russia were pited against Central Powers
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Central Powers
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of Germany, Austria-Hungary were pitted
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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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strewn with barbed wire and land mines
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trench warfare
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emerged on the western front
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Battle of the Somme
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British forces suffered some 60,00 casualties in a single day
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Manfred von Richthogen
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known as the Red Baron
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Edward Rickenbacker
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American ace with 26 kills
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Sussex pledge
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a renewal of an earlier promise not to sink liners without or withour ensuring the passengers' safety
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Robert Lansings
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encouraged the trade of war materials with the allies
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National Defense Act
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increased number of soldiers in the regular army from some 90,000 to about 175,000 with an ultimate goall of 223,000
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Zimmermann Note
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the cable proposed a Mexican alliance with Germany
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Jeannette Rankin
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of Montana was among the opposition
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Selective Service Act
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on May 18, 1917 it required men between the ages of 21 and 30 to register with local draft
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John J. Pershing
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general led american expeditionary force
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convoy system
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proved quite effective
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William McAdoo
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was secretary of the treasury and Wilson's son-in-law
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Food Administration
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successful federal war boards
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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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War Industries Board (WIB)
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the work of all the boards was coordinated by the government's central war agency
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Bernard Baruch
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had overall responsibility for allocating scarce materials establishing production priorities
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National War Labor Board
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in April 1918 composed of representatives from business and labor
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Harriot Stanton Blatch
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daugher of suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton headed Food Administration's Speakers' Bureau.
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Juliette Gordon Low
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WAS AN ACTIVE american volunteer
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Committee on Public Information
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in the spring of 1917 headed by George Creel the CPI led a propaganda campaign to encourage the American people to support the war
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Great Migration
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African Americans from South to northern cities between 1915 and 1930
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Espionage Act
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started in June 1917
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Sedition Act
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started in 1918
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Bolsheviks
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a group of radical Russian socialists, seized power
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Battle of the Argonne Forest
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120,000 casualities for Americans
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Fourteen Points
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a program for world peace
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League of Nations
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WAS THE HEART of the program
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Big Four
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wilson david lloyd george georges clemenceau vittorio orlando
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David Lloyd George
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british prime ministers
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George 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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took place in the palace of Versailles just outside Paris
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