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17 Cards in this Set
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Doughboy-
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Nickname for an infantryman in WW1.
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Fourteen points-
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constitutional amendment 1868 that guarantees civil rights and equal protection of laws to citizens
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Autocrat-
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Ruler with unlimited governing power.
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American Expeditionary Force
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Us Troops in WW1 including draftees, volunteers, and the National Guard.
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Self Determination
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Freedom of a group of people to determine thier own political status; proposed by president Wilson for ethnice groups in Austria-Hungary after win.
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Kaiser Wilhelm-
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Emperor of Germany during WW1, symbol to the US caused by $ spend on illigal immigration.
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Versailles Treaty
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Agreement in 1919 eding WW1; included huge war reparation to be paid by Germany.
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Central Powers
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combination of Germany and Austria- Hungary in WW1; opponents of the Allies.
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Liberty Bond-
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Certificates issued by the US to raise money to loan to the allies during WW1
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Reparations
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Payments for economic injury exacted from a defeated enemy.
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Industrial Workers of The World-
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Radical Labor Org, of early 1900's to over throw the capitalist system, aka wobblies.
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Zimmerman Note
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Telegram intercepted from a German official offering to help Mexico regain Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona if the US enter WW1. Increased presssure of the US to enter the war.
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League of Nations
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Organization proposed by wilson after WW1 in the hopes of joining nations together for peace and security.
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U- Boat-
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Submarine of the German navy; introduced during WW1.
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Lusitania
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British Passenger ship sunk by German U- Boats in 1915.
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Armistice
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cease fire during a war, particularly at the end of WW1 in 1918.
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Allies
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The comination of Russia, France, Great Britian, and later the US in WW1.
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