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33 Cards in this Set
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Nationalism |
pride in one's nation |
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Militarism |
the policy of building up strong armed forces to prepare for war |
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Terrorist |
uses threats and violence to promote cause |
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Kaiser |
German emperor |
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Central Power |
Germany,Austria,Hungary,Bulgaria and the Ottoman or Turkish Empire |
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Allied Power |
France, Britan,Russia to start out with and in time 21 other countries including Italy will join |
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Stalemate |
a deadlock in which neither side is strong enough to defeat the other |
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Propaganda |
the spreading of ideas that help cause or hurt an opposing cause |
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Lusitania |
a British passenger ship off the coast of Ireland was sunk by a German Submarine |
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Warmonger |
person who tries to stir up a war |
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Zimmerman Telegram |
instructed to the minister to urge Mexico to attack the United States |
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Czar |
Russian emperors |
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Selective Service Act |
required all men from the age 21 to 30 to register a military draft |
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Draft |
a law requiring people of a certain age to serve in the military |
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Illiterate |
unable to be read or write |
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Bureaucracy |
a system of managing government through departments run by appointed officials |
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Liberty Bonds |
when you bought a Liberty bond you were lending money to the government to help pay for the war |
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Pacifist |
people who refused to fight in any war because they believe that war is evil |
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Socialist |
believed that the people as a whole rather then private individuals should own all property and share the profits from all businesses |
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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk |
ending Russia's participation in the war |
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Harlem Hell Fighters |
an African American combat unit |
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Battle of Belleau Wood |
raged for three weeks America performed bravely |
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Battle of the Argonne Forest |
America spent 47 days breaking through the Germans defense and they won the battle but more than 100,000 people died |
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Armistice |
an agreement to stop[ fighting |
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Abdicate |
give up power |
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Epidemic |
the rapid spread of a contagious disease among a large amount of people |
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Fourteen Points |
meant to prevent international problems from causing another war |
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Self-Determination |
the right of a national groups to have their own territory and forms of government |
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League of Nations |
meant to protect the independence of a countries-large or small |
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Big Four |
Allied powers or the United States, Britan, France and Italy |
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Reparations |
cash payments |
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Treaty of Versailles |
most important treaty of the Peace of Paris |
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Isolationist |
people who wanted the United States to stay out of World affairs |
