Us History Ch. 19 The Great War

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Central Powers

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Germany and its allies during World War I

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Allies

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the nations that opposed Germany in World War I

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William Jennings Bryan

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U.S. Secretary of state before World War I

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Porfirio Diaz

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Mexican dictator, 1876 to 1911, popular among American businessmen

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Victoriano Huerta

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"one of the most grotesque tyrannies in Mexican history"

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Pancho Villa

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Mexican bandit leader who raided a New Mexico border town

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John J. Pershing

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American general who led U.S. troops in World War I

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Wilhelm II

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German ruler who drew England into war

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Lusitania

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passenger liner that the Germans sunk with Americans aboard

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Sussex pledge

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America's commitment to oppose Germany if submarine warfare continued

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unrestricted submarine warfare

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German policy of sinking all ships in the war zone

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Zimmerman telegram

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German plot to give part of the United States to Mexico

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America enters World War I

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April 6, 1917

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Selective Service Act

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all men, ages 21 to 30, were required to register for the draft

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Food Administration

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agency appointed to organize methods of sacing and producing food for the war

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Herbert Hoover

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administrator of the Food Administration

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doughboy

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term popularly used to refer to American soldiers in World War I

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Espionage and Sedition Acts

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made it a criminal offense to criticize the war effort in any way

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Schenk v. United States

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established the right to limit free speech during wartime

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Fourteen Points

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Wilson's idealistic plan to produce lasting peace in the world

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League of Nations

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peacetime association of nations that sought to prevent war

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Argonne offensive

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where American troops launched and fought a costly offensive

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Armistice (November 11, 1918)

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truce ending World War I

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"war-guilt" clause

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name given to the clause in the peace treaty making Germany responsible for the war

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reparation payments

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unreasonable economic demand Britain and France imposed on Germany in the Treaty of Versaillies

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Henry Cabot Lodge

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U.S. Senator who led opposition to the Treaty of Versailles

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What was the purpose of Germany's Schlieffen Plan?

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to defeat France quickly and then attack Russia

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Germany's invasion of which nation brought Great Britain into World War I?

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Belgium

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What was probably the greatest factor in America's entrance into the war?

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submarine warfare in the Atlantic

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What was the main provision of the Selective Service Act?

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the draft

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What did President Wilson consider the most important point of his Fourteen Points?

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the League of Nations

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Who was America's "ace of aces"?

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Eddie Rickenbacker

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Name two methods that Americans on the home front used to raise food and money for the war effort.

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Liberty Gardens and buying war bonds

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What event sparked World War I?

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the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife