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42 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 Autro-Hungarian throne; visited Sarajevo and was killed
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Gavrilo Princip
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killed Franz Ferdinand; Serbian nationalist
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Allied Powers
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Britain, France, Russia
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Central Powers
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Germany, Austria-Hungray, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria
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Schlieffen Plan
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strategy that called for German forces to avoid the French-German border by invading France through Belgium
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The First Battle of the Marne
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the allies pushed hte German lines back 40 miles and leaders of both sides realized it wouldnt be an easy victory
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no-mans' land
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the area bombed out with barbed wire spearating the two sides
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trench warfare
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battles utilizing the protection of trenches
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Battle of the Somme
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longest battle of the war where the German and French armies attacking the French city of Verdun; the allied forces finally attacked Verdun
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new weapons
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machine gun and poison gas
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Manfred Von Richthofen
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most successful pilot; german
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Edward Rickenbacker
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top American pilot ace
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4 causes of war
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miliarism, alliances, imperialism, nationalism
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sussex pledge
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a renewal of the earlier promise not to sink liners without warning or ensuring the passengers’ safety
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Robert Lansing
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encouraged the trade of war materials with the allies; Secrtary of State, William Bryan's successor
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National Defense Act
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increased the number of soldiers in the regular army
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Zimmerman Note
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an intercepted cable proposed a Mexican alliance with German, and was proposed by Arthur Zimmerman. It offered German support to help Mexico
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Jeanette Rankin
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one of the people agaist going to war
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Selective Service Act
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required men ages 21 to 30 to register with the local draft boards
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John J. Pershing
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appointed commander of the army;
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Conovy System
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a system of transporting troops, supplies, and volunteers through the submarine-infested North Atlantic, and was very effective
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William McAdoo
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Secretary of the treasury that declared that “Every person who refuses to subscribe…is a friend of Germany.” and “is not entitled to be an American citizen; head of the railroad administration
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Food Administration
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one of the most successful of the war boards; headed by Herbert Hoover
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Herbert Hoover
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directer of the food administration; conserved existing supplies
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War industries board
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The government’s central war agency that coordinated the work of all the other boards
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Bernard Baruch
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director of the war industries board; was a wall street investor
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National War Labor Board
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designed to ensure that the voice of labor was heard. Made sure that no unions went on strike.
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Harriot Stanton Blatch
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daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton who helped the Food Administration Bureau
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Juliette Gordon Low
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widowed once; depressed for much of her life; travelled somewhere and met her husband who was the founder of the Boy Scouts; she later founded the girl scouts
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Great Migration
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migration of African Americans from the south to northern cities between 1915 and 1930.
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Committee of Public Information.
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Wilson started it, and it was headed by George Creel; producing propaganda that displayed the Germans as monsters
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Expionage Act
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makes it illegal to interfere with or put down recruitment acts
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Sedition Act
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if you said anything bad about the government you can get arrested
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the Bolsheviks
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a group of Radical Republican Socialists who seized power; led by Vlad Lenin, and he withdrew Russia from the war
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the battle of Argonne Forest
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for more than a mont, Americans pushed through the Meuse river and the Argonne forest facing machine gun fire the whole way
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fourteen points
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a program for world peace proposed by Wilson; presented a summary of his principles; points focused on the right of people to govern themselves and what Wilson considered the cause of the modern war
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League of Nations
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an internationl body designed to prevent offensive wars
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The Big Four
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Wilson, David Lloyd George, Georges Clemmenceau, and Vittorio Orlando; people that dominted the Peace conference
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reparations
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payments
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Treaty of Versailles
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after six months of debate over Wilson's plan, it was siged; new colonial rulersto report to their administration to the League of Nations; Created the nations of Czecheslovakia and yoguslavia and reestablished Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithunia and Poland as independant nations; agreement creating the League of nations
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Henry Cabot Lodge
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head of the Senate Committee on Foreign relations who led the reservationists; against the treaty of versailles
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