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12 Cards in this Set
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Lusitania |
A British passenger liner |
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Zimmerman Note |
A secrets telegram to Mexico sent by German foreign minister, Arthur Zimmerman, was decoded and the published by American newspapers in March 1917 |
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Selective Service Act |
1917; the act required men between the ages 21-30 to register to be drafted |
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Liberty bonds |
Money from sales of crops provided billions of dollars in loans to the allies |
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Citizens who helped out with food in the war to build crops |
Victory gardens |
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American expeditionary force |
French and British wanted the U.S. to join the units |
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Communists |
People who favor the equal distribution of wealth and the end of all forms of private property |
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Armistice |
Truce; went into effect on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 |
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League of Nations |
The final point called for the creation of an international assembly of nations |
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Reparations |
Payments for war damages |
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Treaty of Versailles |
Peace settlement of world war one |
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Henry Cabot Lodge |
Republican senator; declared "No peace that satisfied Germany in any degree can ever satisfy us." |
