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Franz Ferdinand
The heir to the Austro Hungarian throne, visited Sarajevo, the Bosnian capital
Gavrilo Princip
Serbian nationalist who stepped out of the crowd. He fired two shots, killing the archduke and his wife, Sophie
Allied Powers
WWI alliance that included Britain, France, Russia, and later the United States, and that fought against the Central Powers
Central Powers
WWI alliance that included Austria Hungary, Germany, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria
First Battle of the Marne
WWI battle in which the Allies stopped a German advance near the Marne River
No-man's-land
Strip of bombed territory that separated the trenches of opposing armies along the Western Front during World War I
Trench warfare
A new type of fighting
Battle of the Somme
British forces suffered some 60,000 casualties in a single day
Manfred von Richthofen
German Red Baron
Edward Rickenbacker
The top American ace who had 26 kills
Sussex Pledge
A renewal of an earlier promise not to sink liners without warning or without ensuring the passengers' safety
Robert Lansing
he encouraged the trade of war materials with the Allies
National Defense Act
Military "preparedness" program established prior to U.S. entry into World War I that increased the size of the National Guard and the regular U.S. army
Zimmerman Note
Cable sent to Mexico by Germany's foreign secretary during World War I; proposed an alliance between the two countries
Jeannette Rankin
Representative of Montana was among the opposition.
Selective Service Act
Law that initially required men between the ages of 21 and 30 to register for the draft.
William McAdoo
He was secretary of treasury and Wilson't son-in-law. He declared that "Every person who refuses to subscribe... is a friend of Germany and is not entitled to be an American citizen.
Food Administration
World War I agency headed by Herbert Hoover; encouraged increased agricultural production and the conservation of existing food supplie
Herbert Hoover
Directed the Food Administration, and a prosperous mining engineer who had managed a food-relief campaign for war-stricken Belgium
War Industries Board
Agency led by Bernard Baruch during WWI; allocated scarce goods, established production priorities, and set prices on goods.
Bernard Baruch
Wall street investigator, had overall responsibility for allocating scarce materials, establishing production priorities, and setting prices.
National War Labor Board
Agency created during WWI to settle desputes between workers and employers.
Stanton Blatch
The daughter of suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, headed the Food Administration Speakers Dureau
Juliette Gordon Low
An active American volunteer.
The Great Migration
Mass migration of some 60,000 English people to the Americas in the 1600's
Committee on Public Information
Agency created in 1917 to increase public support for WWI
Espionage Act
Federal law that outlawed acts of treason during WWI
Sedition Act
Federal law enacted during WWI that made written criticism of the government a crime.
Bolsheviks
a group of radical Russian socialist, seized power.
Battle of the Argonne Forest
Successful Allied effort to push back German troops from a rail center in Sedan, France
Fourteen Points
a program for world peace
League of Nation
14th point established this and it was the hear of the program.
Big Four
Wilson, British prime minister David Lloyd George, French premier Georges Clemenceau, and Italian prime minister Vittorio Orlando
reparations
payments to the Allies
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty ending WWI that required Germany to pay huge war repartitions and established the League of Nations.
Henry Cabot Lodge
He headed of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and Wilson's longtime enemy, led the reservation.