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Allied Powers |
The Allies of World War II, called the United Nations from the 1 January 1942 declaration, were the countries that together opposed the Axis powers during the Second World War |
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Central Powers |
The Central Powers (red) consist of Austria-Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire. Important allied powers (yellow) are Serbia, Russia, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Belgium and the United States. |
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Militarism |
the belief or desire of a government or people that a country should maintain a strong military capability and be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests. |
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Trench Warfare |
type of land warfare using occupied fighting lines consisting largely of trenches, in which troops are significantly protected from the enemy's small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery |
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Neutrality |
the state of not supporting or helping either side in a conflict, disagreement, etc.; impartiality |
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Sussex Pledge |
promise made in 1916 during World War I by Germany to the United States prior to the latter's entry into the war |
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Zimmerman Note |
internal diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the event of the United States' entering World War I against Germany |
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Selective Service Act |
authorized the federal government to raise a national army for the American entry into World War I through the compulsory enlistment of people |
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American Expeditionary Force |
consisted of the United States Armed Forces sent to Europe under the command of General John J. Pershing in 1917 to help fight World War I |
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National War Labor Board |
On this day in 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt reinstates Woodrow Wilson's National War Labor Board (NWLB) in an attempt to forestall labor-management conflict during World War II |
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Committee on Public Information |
independent agency of the government of the United States created to influence U.S. public opinion regarding American participation in World War I |
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Great Migration |
movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1910 and 1970. |
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Espionage and Sedition Acts |
The law was extended on May 16, 1918, by the Sedition Act of 1918, actually a set of amendments to the Espionage Act, which prohibited many forms of speech, including "any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of government of the United States |
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Bolsheviks |
a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which was renamed the Communist Party after seizing power in the October Revolution of 1917 |
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14 Points |
statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I |
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League of Nations |
intergovernmental organisation founded on 10 January 1920 as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. |
