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26 Cards in this Set
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a contest to build weapons & military power
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Militarism/Arms Race
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a person who uses violence for a political cause
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terrorist
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a situation in which neither side wins or loses.
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stalemate
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the spreading of ideas, information, and beliefs to help or hurt a cause
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propaganda
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a person sent to another country to speak for the government of his/her own country
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ambassador
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a garden in which citizens raised their own food during WWI
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Victory garden
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a paper that shows debt, or money owed
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bond
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an economic system in which the government owns all property & businesses
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communism
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an agreement to stop fighting
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armistice
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forced Germany to take sole responsibility & blame & pay damages for WWI
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Treaty of Versailles
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provided for a League of Nations
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Fourteen Points
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U.S. Troops Victories
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Belleau Wood & Argonne Forest
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British ocean liner sunk by a German U-boat which killed 128 Americans & turned many Americans against Germany
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The Lusitania
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A secret telegraph message to the German Ambassador in Mexico urging him to get Mexico to join WWI as Germany's ally. In return Germany would help Mexico get back land lost in Spanish-American war &Tx.,N.M., Az.
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Zimmerman Telegram
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Causes of WWI
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Extreme Nationalism, Alliances, Imperialism, & Arms Race/ Militarism
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Incoming Ruler of Austria-Hungary assasinated with his wife Sofie by a Serbian terrorist causing WWI to begin
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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Germany, Austria-Hungary & the Ottoman Empire
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Central Powers
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Serbia, Great Britain, Russia, France & the USA
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Allied Nations
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U.S. aviator & flying ace who shot down 22 enemy planes & 4 balloons during WWI
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Eddie Rickenbacker
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German aviator & flying ace who shot down 80 enemy planes in WWI
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Baron Manfred Von Richtoffen
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created by the U.S. Gov't to issue propaganda to encourage Americans to support the war effort.
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Committee on Public Information
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a law requiring all men between 21 & 30 to sign up for the draft
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1917 Selective Service Act
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financed WWI for the U.S.
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Liberty Bonds
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Tsar Nicholas III is deposed by Communist Bolshevics causing Russia to sign a treaty with Central Powers & drop alliance with Allied Nations
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Russian Revolution
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The United States under this president declared Isolationism during 1st 3 yrs. of WWI
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Woodrow Wilson
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Warship formation that protected merchant ships crossing the Atlantic Ocean
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Convoy
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