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41 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 the austrohungarian throne
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Central powers
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German Austria Hungary the Ottoman Empire and Bulgarian army's
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Allied powers
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Britain France and Russian army's
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Gabriel princip
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Killed Franz Ferdinand
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The first battle of the Marne
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The allies pushed the Germans back 40 miles
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No mans land
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The area that separated the 2 sides
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Trench warfare
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Fighting from trenches facing each other
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Battle of the Somme
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4 month battle
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Manfored Von Richthofen
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Successful German baron
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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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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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Increases the number of soldiers in the regular army
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Zimmerman note
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Proposed alliance between Mexico and Germany
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Selective service act
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Required men ages 21-30 to sign up to be drafted
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John j Pershing
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General who lead first troops to france
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Convoy system
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Use of armed vessels to escort unarmed merchants
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William mcadoo
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Secretary of the us treasury
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Food administration
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Most successful war boards
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Herbert Hoover
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Managed a food relief campaign
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War industries board
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Government central war agency
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Bernard Baruch
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Had responsibilities for allocating scarce materials
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National war labor board
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Arbitrated disputes between laborer a and employers
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Harriet Stanton blatch
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Headed the food administration speakers bureau
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Juliette Gordon low
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Active American volunteer
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Great migration
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African Americans who moved north
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Committee on public information
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Encouraged the American people to support war
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Espionage act
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Made it a crime to criticize the government military or flag
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Sedition act
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Made it a crime to criticize the government military or flag
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Bolsheviks
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A group of Russians who sievzed power
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Battle of the Argonne forest
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Americans suffered 120,000 deaths
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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 fourteen points
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Big four
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Dominated the peace conference
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David Lloyd George
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Part of the big 4
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George's Clemenceau
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Part of the big 4
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Vittorio Orlando
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Part of the big 4
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Reparations
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Payments
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Treaty of Versailles
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Peace treaty ending WWI
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Henry Cabot lodge
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Wilson's longtime enemy
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