WWI Test Preparation
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| militarism | the aggressive strengthening of armed forces
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| mobilize | preparing a country's military for war
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| Central Powers | the alliance between Austria-Hungary and Germany during WWI
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| Allied Powers | France, Russia, and Britain during WWI
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| trench warfare | defending a position by fighting from the protection of deep ditches
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| stalemate | a situation in which neither side can win a decisive victory
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| U-boats | submarines that launched torpedoes against Allied supply ships, causing heavy loss.
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| Lusitania | a British passenger liner, sunk by a German U-boat in 1915. About 1,200 people were killed, including 128 Americans.
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| Zimmerman Note | This secret telegram to Mexico sent by the German foreign minister, Arthur Zimmerman, was decoded and then published by American newspapers in March 1917.
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| Selective Service Act | in 1917, this act required men between the ages of 21 and 30 to register to be drafted.
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| Liberty Bonds | the sale of these war bonds provided billions of dollars in loans to the Allies.
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| American Expeditionary Force | French and British generals called for immediate help on the front lines and wanted U.S. troops to join French and British units.
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| Communists | people who favor the equal distribution of wealth and the end of all forms of private property.
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| League of Nations | an international assembly of nations that was the final of Wilson's fourteen points
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| Treaty of Versailles | the peace settlement of WWI which made Germany pay reparations for war damage.
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| Liberty Bonds | these were issued by the U.S. government to support the Allies
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| Allies | U.S., France, Britain, and Italy signed the Treaty of Versailles
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| new strategy | trench warfare was fighting in deep ditches during WWI
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| Nobel Peace Prize | won by Woodrow Wilson for his role of forming the League of Nations
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| Militarism | aggressive strengthening of armed forces
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| Germany | last nation to surrender to Allied Forces in 1918
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| Selective Service Act | passed in 1917 and required men between the ages of 21-30 to register to be drafted
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| convoy system | helped the Allies by allowing destroyers to escort and protect groups of Allied merchant ships.
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| American soldiers | the Allies were near defeat when the American soldiers arrived in Europe in 1917
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| influenza | a disease that was deadly because it spread through the air in 1918
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| three million | The Central Powers had almost this many casualties during WWI
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| women | more that a million of this group of workers were hired by factories during WWI
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| spark that ignited WWI | killing of Austria-Hungary's Archduke Francis-Ferdinand
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| stalemate | in 1916 this happened in WWI
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| postwar peace | Wilson's 14 points area a list of proposals for this
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| Nationalism | one of the causes of tensinon in Europe in the early 1900s
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| American Expeditionary Force | U.S. troops fighting in Europe during WWI.
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| telegram | the Zimmermann Note is a secret _________
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| Russian peace treaty | the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a _____ _____ _____ with the Central Powers.
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| Lusitania | a British passenger ship attacked by German U-boats; several civilians were killed, including 128 Americans
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| submarines | U-boats (or untesee boats) are German ________
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| Armistice | truce that ended active warfare and paved the way for a peace treaty
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| Veteran's Day | After WWI, Armistice Day became known as ________ Day. (always on November 11th)
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| Republican | Henry Cabot Lodge was a _____________leader
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| Bolsheviks | afftected Russia's involvement in WWI by overthrouwing the czar and sparking a civil war. This led Russia to withdrawing from the war.
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