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14 Cards in this Set
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Militarism
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The glorification of military strength
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Franz Ferdinand
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The heir to the austro- Hungarian throne
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Gavrilo Princip
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Serbian nationalist
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Allied powers
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Britain, France, and Russia
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Central powers
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Germany, Aurtria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria
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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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Thin strip of bombed out territory 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 Somme
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British forces suffered some 60,000 casualties in a single day
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Edward Rickenbacker
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Top American Ace
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Sussex Pledge
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A renewal of an earlier promise not to sink liners without warning
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Manfred Von Richthofen
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The Red Baron
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Robert Lansing
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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 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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