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53 Cards in this Set
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Triple Alliance
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Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungry
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Triple Entente
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France, England, Russia
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Serbian Rebels
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Shot Archduke Franz, June 28, 1914
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Archduke Franz
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Heir to Austria-Hungry
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President Wilson
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Neutrality, Isolationism
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Central Powers
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Germany, Austria-Hungry, Ottoman Empire
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Germany
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Submarine, Blockade, Western Front, Eastern Front
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Western Front
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France
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Eastern Front
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Russia
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Allied Powers
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England, France, Russia
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May 7th, 1915
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Lusitania
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Lusitania
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British passenger ship
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Sussex
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French Passenger Ship
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election 1916
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Wilson Reelected
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Motto
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He kept us out of war
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U-boats
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Germany sinking ships
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Feb. 25, 1917
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Zimmerman Note
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Zimmerman Note
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If Mexico attacked U.S. Mexico would receive lost territory
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Arthur Zimmerman
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Germany Foreign Minister to Mexico
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3 U.S. Ships attacked my German
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Feb.-April 1917
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April 2,1917
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Wilson declares war on Germany
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American Ships...
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Escorted British Merchant ships, help British navy battle U-boats, None lost
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U.S. entered WWI with...
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120,000 people
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Selective Service Act
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Wilson, May 1917, National Draft
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American Expeditionary Forces
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3 Million men to army, 2 million men joined volunteer groups/branches, Women allowed to enlist
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Free time
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1 out of 10 soldiers came back with STD
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Women Elisting
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could not participate in battle, Hospitals, 10,000 women in navy
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Blacks
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400,000, Army and Navy, Segregated units, 50,000 France
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August 1917
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Houston, black abused by community, killed 17 whites, 13 black soldiers hanged, 40 life in prison
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American psychological association
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IQ test, intelligence, aptitude test skills, most are morons
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Spring 1918
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Allies had been fighting for 4 years, more U.S. troops went to France
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American General
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John J. Pershing
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Trench Warfare
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Fired machine guns at each other
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New Technologies
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High powered weapons, Machine guns, tanks, flamethrowers, mustard gas, airplanes
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navy
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electricity, power, navigation systems, submarines
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Britain Causalities
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1 Million, 1/3 men died
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France Causalities
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1.7 Million
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Germany Causalities
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2 Million
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Austria-Hungry Causalities
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1.5 Million
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Italy Causalities
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460,000
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U.S. Causalities
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112,000
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Russia Causalities
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1.7 Million
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September 26, 1918
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U.S. headed to Argonne Forest,
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Germany Surrendered
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November 11, 1918 11:00
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U.S. Used...
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$32 Billion, raised taxes, liberty bonds
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Paris Peace Conference
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December 13, 1918, Germany blamed for war
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Germany had to pay
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56 Billion
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Germany paid
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$9 Billion
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Great Britain
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Llyod George
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U.S.
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President Wilson
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Italy
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Vittorio Orlando
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France
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Clemenceam
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League of nations
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January 25, 1919, U.S. did not join, just create
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