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27 Cards in this Set
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World War 1 Dates |
August, 1914- War begins in Europe August, 1917- US enters war |
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Triple Alliance (Central Powers) |
Germany Austria-Hungary Italy Turkey |
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Triple Entente |
Great Britain France Russia (Italy 1915) |
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Causes of WWI |
Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand Germanys "Blank Check" Austria Hungary moved to punish Serbia |
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America Was Neutral in the war at first due to Wilson |
Wilson was reelected for this |
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British ship that was torpedoed by a german uboat |
Lusitania
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Susex Pledge |
promise made in 1916 during World War I by Germany to the United States prior to the latter's entry into the war |
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Espionage Act |
prohibited many forms of speech, including "any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of government of the United States...or the flag of the United States |
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Eugene Debs |
was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. |
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Fourteen Points |
President Woodrow Wilson's proposed plan for the peace agreement after the Great War that included the creation of a "league of nations" intended to keep the peace. |
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League of Nations |
was an intergovernmental organisation founded on 10 January 1920 as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. |
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Henry Cabot Lodge |
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W.E.B Dubois |
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Bolsheviks |
Negotiated the treaty of Brest Litovsk with Germany Threated to publish secret treaties |
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Warren Harding |
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Zimmerman Note |
Message sent by a German official to the Mexican government urging an invasion of the United States; the telegram was intercepted by British intelligence agents and angered Americans, many of whom called for war against Germany. |
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Charles Evans Hughes |
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Abrams V. U.S. |
was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States upholding the 1918 Amendment to the Espionage Act of 1917, |
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Polish Corridor |
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Sedition Law |
was an Act of the United States Congress that extended the Espionage Act of 1917 to cover a broader range of offenses, notably speech and the expression of opinion that cast the government or the war effort in a negative light |
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Treaty of Brest-Liovsk |
was a peace treaty signed on 3 March 1918 between the new Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia and the Central Powers |
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"Peace Without Victory" |
Wilsons asserted US desire to have lasting power |
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Gen. John. J. Pershing |
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Treaty of Versailles |
was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. |
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Countries created by the Treaty of Versailles |
Finland Poland Estonia Czechoslovakia latvia |
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Red Scare |
Outbreak of anti-Communist hysteria that included the arrest without warrants of thousands of suspected radicals, most of whom (especially Russian immigrants) were deported. |
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Schenck V. United States |
United States Supreme Court case concerning enforcement of the Espionage Act of 1917 during World War I |
