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41 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 who killed the archduke and his wife
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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, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria
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First Battle of the Marne
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World War 1 battle in which the Allies stopped a German advance near the Marne River
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No-mans land
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Strip of bombed-out territory that separated trenches of opposing armies along the Western Front during World War 1
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Trench warfare
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World War 1 strategy of defending a position by fighting from the protection of deep ditches
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Battle of the Somme
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World War 1 battle in which the British lost some 60,000 troops in a single day
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Manfred Von Richthofen
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German known as the Red Baron
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Edward Rickenbacker
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Top 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 warning or without ensuring the passenger's safety
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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
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Zimmermann Note
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Cable that proposed a Mexican alliance with Germany
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Jeannette Rankin
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Representative of Montana who opposed war
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Selective Service Act
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Required men between the ages of 21 and 30 to register with local draft boards
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John J. Pershing
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General that lead the expedition into Mexico that pursued the Pancho Villo
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William McAdoo
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Secretary of the treasury and Wilson's son-in-law
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Food Administration
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Encouraged increased agricultural production and the conservation of existing food supplies
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Herbert Hoover
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Headed the Food Administration and the Fuel Administration
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War Industries Board
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The government's central war agency
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Bernard Baruch
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Director of the WIB; had responsibility for allocating scarce materials, establishing production priorities, and setting prices
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National War Labor Board
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President Wilson established this to ensure that the voice of labor was heard
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Harriet Stanton Blatch
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Headed the Food Administration's Speakers' Bureau; daughter of suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Juliette Gordon Low
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An active American volunteer
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Great Migration
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African Americans moved from the South to northern cities between 1915 to 1930 because of job opportunities and the chance of higher wages
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Committee on Public Information (CPI)
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Agency created in 1917 to increase public support for WW1
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Espionage Act
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Federal law that outlawed acts of treason during WW1
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Sedition Act
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Federal law enacted during WW1 that made written criticism of the government a crime
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Bolsheviks
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A group of radical Russian socialists who seized power in Russia
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Battle of the Argonne Forest
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The Americans suffered some 120,000 casualties during this battle
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Fourteen Points
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Wilson developed this program for world peace
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League of Nations
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The final point and the heart of the program
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Big Four
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Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau, and Vittorio Orlando
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David Lloyd George
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British prime minister
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Georges Clemenceau
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French premier
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Vittorio Orlando
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Italian prime minister
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Reparations
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Payments
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Treaty of Versailles
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Treaty ending WW1 that required Germany to pay huge war reparations and established the League of Nations
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Henry Cabot Lodge
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Head of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and Wilson's long-time enemy who led the reservationists
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