American Government Chapter 21

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Militarism

Back 1

The glorification of military strength

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Franz Ferdinand

Back 2

The heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne

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Gavrilo Princip

Back 3

Serbian nationalist, killed Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie

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Allied Powers

Back 4

Britain, France, and Russia's alliance

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Central Powers

Back 5

Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria's alliance

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First Battle of the Marne

Back 6

Allies pushed the German lines back some 40 miles

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No-man's-land

Back 7

Thin strip of bombed-out territory strewn with barbed wire and land mines

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Trench warfare

Back 8

Soldiers went over the top of trenches and charged across the no mans land toward the enemy trenches

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Battle of the Somme

Back 9

British forces suffered some 60,000 casualties in a single way

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Manfred von Richthofen

Back 10

German Red Baron, reported 80 kills

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Edward Rickenbacker

Back 11

Top American ace with 26 kills

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Sussex pledge

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A renewal of an earlier promise not to sink liners without warning or without ensuring thr passengers safety

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Robert Lansing

Back 13

Bryan's successor encouraging the trade of war materials with the Allies

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National Defense Act

Back 14

Increased the number of soldiers in the regular army from some 90000 to about 175000 with the ultimate goal of 223000

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Zimmerman Note

Back 15

A cable that proposed a Mexican alliance with Germany

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Jeannette Rankin

Back 16

Montana representative, "I want to stand by my country but I cannot vote for war"

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Selective Service Act

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Required men between 21 and 30 to register with local draft boards

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William McAdoo

Back 18

Secretary of the treasury, his promotions were a huge success

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Food administration

Back 19

Charged with regulating the production and supply of these essential resources

Front 20

Herbert Hoover

Back 20

Prosperous mining engineer who managed a food relief campaign for war stricken Belgium

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War Industries Board

Back 21

The governments central war agency

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Bernard Baruch

Back 22

Directer of WIB, wall street investor, had overall responsibility for allocating scarce materials, establishing production priories, and setting prices

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National War Labor Board

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Arbitrated disputes between workers and employers

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Harriot Stanton Blatch

Back 24

Headed the Food's Administration's Speaker' Bureau

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Juliette Gordon Low

Back 25

An active American volunteer

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Great Migration

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African Americans moved from the South to northern cities between 1915 and 1930

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Committee on Public Information

Back 27

Led a propaganda campaign to encourage the American people to support the war

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Espionage Act

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Outlawed acts of treason and made it a crime to utter, print, write, or publish any disloyal or abusive language criticizing the government, the flag, or the military

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Sedition Act

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Outlawed acts of treason and made it a crime to utter, print, write, or publish any disloyal or abusive language criticizing the government, the flag, or the military

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Bolsheviks

Back 30

A group of radical Russian socialists seized power

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Battle of the Argonne Forest

Back 31

Americans suffered some 120000 casualities

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Fourteen Points

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A program for World Peace

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League of Nations

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Final point of the Fourteen Point Plan, heart of the program, an international body designed to prevent offensive wars

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Big Four

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Wilson, David Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau, Vittorio Orlando

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David Lloyd George

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British prime minister

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Georges Clemenceau

Back 36

French premier

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Vittorio Orlando

Back 37

Italian prime minister

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Reparations

Back 38

Payments

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Treaty of Versailles

Back 39

Peace treaty

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Henry Cabot Lodge

Back 40

Head of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and Wilson's longtime enemy, led the reservations

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Convoy system

Back 41

Escorted by US warships, merchant vessels transported troops, supplies, and volunteers through the submarine infested North Atlantic