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13 Cards in this Set
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Lusitania |
British passenger liner 1,200 people killed 128 Americans |
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Zimmermann note |
This secret telegram to Mexico sent by the German roreign minister author Zimmermann was decoded and then published by American newspaper in March 1917 |
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Selective service act |
1917 the act required men between ages of 21 and 30 to register to be drafted |
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Liberty bonds |
Issued war bonds money from the sale of these liberty bonds provided billions of dollars in loans to the allies |
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Victory gardens |
Vegetable garden planted by United staes family to help prevent food shortage |
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Espionage sedition act |
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1917 is a United States federal law passed on June 15, 1917, shortly after the U.S. entry into World War I. It has been amended numerous times over the years. It was originally found in Title 50 of the U.S. Code (War) but is now found under Title 18, Crime. |
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Americanexpeditionary force |
U.S. troops to join French and British 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 |
Or truce went into effect on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month 1918 |
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League of Nations |
The final point called for the creation of an international assembly of nations called the league of nations |
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Reparations |
Or payments for war damages |
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Treaty of Versailles |
The peace settlement of world war 1 |
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Henry Cabot lodge |
Declared no peace that satisfied Germany in any degree can ever statist us |
