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Chapter 11 Vocab
Chapter 11 Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Nationalism | A devotion to the interest and culture of ones nation |
Militarism | The development of armed forces and their use as a tool of deplomacy |
Allies | Countries that agree to back one and other in times of war |
Archduke Franz Ferdinand | Hair to the Austrian throne |
No mans land | barren expanse of mud pockmarked with shell craters and filled with barbed wire |
Trench Warfare | armies dug trenches and fought from them |
Lusitania | British liner sunk by German u-boats, many Americans on board |
Zimmerman Note | Telegram from Germany to Mexico stating they could take back all of the land they had claims on from the U.S.if they helped in the war |
Eddie Rickenbacker | Famous ww1 air pilot |
Selective Service Act | Required men to register with the military for a random draft |
Convoy system | Merchant ships protected by larger military ships |
American Expeditionary Force | the force from the USA that went to Europe to fight |
General John J. Pershing | Leader of the AEF |
Alvin York | Famous war hero from ww1 |
Conscientious objector | person who is opposed to war or violence on moral grounds |
Armistice | Truce that ended the war |
War Industrial Board | Encouraged companies to mass produce military items etc |
Bernard M. Baruch | Leader of WIB |
Propaganda | Biased communication based on trying to sway public knowledge or opinion |
George Creel | Head of CPI and muckraking journalist |
Espionage and Sedition Acts | a person could be fined up to $10,000, and sentence a person 20 years in jail for interfering with the war effort |
Great Migration | large scale movement of hundreds of thousands of of southern blacks to cities |
Fourteen Points | Wilson's speech to congress |
League of Nations | Forum for nations to discuss and settle their differences |
George Clemenceau | lived through 2 invasions of France and wanted to prevent another |