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41 Cards in this Set
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Militarism
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Glorification of military strenght
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No-man's land
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Strip of bombed-out territory that separated the trenches of opposing armies along the Western Front during WW1
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Trench warfare
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WW1 military strategy of defeating a position by fighting from the protection of the deep ditches
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Franz Ferdinane
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Archduke that Visited Sarajevo the Bosnian capital in his car
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Gavrilo Princip
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Serbian nationalist that shot Ferdinane.
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Allied Powers
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WW1 aliance that include Britain, France, Russia and later the US
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Central powers
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WW1 aliance that included Austria, Germany, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria
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First Battle of the Marne
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(1914) WW1 battle in which the Allies stopped a German advance near the Marne river
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Battle of Somme
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(1916) WW1 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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Famous pilot known as Red Baron that reported 80 kills
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Edward Rickenbacker
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Top American ace that had 26 kills
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Convoy system
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Use of armed vessels to escort unarmed merchant vessels transporting troops, supplies or volunteers through the North Alantic during Ww1
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Sussex Pledge
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(1916) promised issued by German officials during WW1 not to sink merchant vessels without warning or without assuring the passengers 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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(1916) military preparedness program established prior to US entry into WW1 that increased the size of the national guard and regular us army
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Zimmerman Note
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Cable sent to Mexico by Germanys foreign secretary during WW1
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Jeannette Rankin
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Representative of Montana
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Selective Service Act
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(1917) law that initially required men between the ages of 21. And 30 to register for the draft
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John J. Pershing
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General in command of the first US troops that reached France in late June 1917.. Was ordered by Wilson to lead the expedition into Mexico that pursued pancho Villa
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William McAdoo
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Secretary of treasury and Wilson's son-in-law
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Food Administration
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WW1 agency headed by Herbert Hoover
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Herbert Hoover
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Chose by Wilson to lead Food Administration
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War Industries Board
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Agency led by Bernard Baruch during WW1
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Bernard Baruch
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Director of WIB, a wall street investor who had the overall responsibility for allocating scarce materials, establishing production and setting prices
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Harriot Stantn Blatch
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Daughter of Elizabeth Cady Staton, headed the food administrations 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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Mass migration of some 60,000 of english people to the Americas un the 1600s
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Committee on Public Information
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Agency created in 1917 to increase public support of WW1
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Espionage Act
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1917) federal law that outlawed acts of treason during the 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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Reparations
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Payment for damages and expenses of war
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Bolsheviks
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Group of radical Russian socialists who seized power in 1917 following the overthrow of the czar
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Battle of the Argonne Forest
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(1918) successful allied effort to push back German troops from a rail center in Sedan, France
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Fourteen points
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(1918) president Woodrow Wilson's plan for organizing post- WW1 Europe and for avoiding future wars
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League of Nations
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International body of nation formed in 1919 to prevent wars
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Big Four
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Collective name given to US president Woodrow Wilson, British prim minister David Lloyd George, French premier Georges Clemenceau and italian prime minister Vittorio Orlando
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David Lloyd George
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British prime minister
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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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(1919) treaty that ended WW1 requiring Germany to pay huge war reparations and established Britain's formal recognition of the US
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Henry Cabot Lodge
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Head of Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
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