Ch. 14 Test
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| Woodrow Wilson | "Kept us out of the war"
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| John J Pershing | American Expeditionary Force(AEF) commander
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| Franz Ferdinand | Archduke, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne; visited the Bosnian capital of Sarjevo and was assassinated by the "black hand"
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| Allies | those fighting for the Triple Entente
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| Central Powers | German, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria
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| Propaganda | information designed to influence opinion
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| Contraband | prohibited materials, to prevent neutral countries from shipping food to Germany
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| U-boats | Germans deployed submarines known as this...
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| Lusitania | entered war zone and was sunk by a German U-boat
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| Sussex Pledge | Germany promised with certain conditions to sink no more merchant ships without warning
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| Zimmermann Telegram | German official cabled the abassador in Mexico, to make an offer with Mexican gov't to ally itself with Germany and when they won the war, Mexico would retain its "lost territory."
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| conscription | a draft
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| War Industries Board | One of the 1st agencies established. job was to coordinate the production of war materials
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| Liberty/Victory Bonds | the gov't borrowed over 20 billion from the American people by selling...
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| National War Labor Board | To prevent strikes from disrupting the war effort
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| Committee on Public Information | a new government agency, which had the task of "selling" the war to the American people
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| Espionage Act | established penalties and prison terms for anyone who gave aid to the enemy
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| Sedition Act | made ilegal any public expression of opposition to the war
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| Schenck v. the United States | Supreme Court ruled that an individual's freedom of speech could be curbed when the owrds uttered constitute a "clear and present danger."
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| No Man's land | the space between the opposing trench
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| doughboys | a nickname for the American soldiers
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| Bolsheviks | a group of Communists, soon competed for power in Russia
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| Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | Under the treaty, Russia lost substantial territory, giving up Ukraine, its Polish and Baltic territories and Finland
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| Vladimir Lenin | the leader of the Bolshevik Party, overthrew the Russian government and established a Communist government
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| armistice | ceasefire, that ended the war
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| Fourteen Points | Wilson's plan;5 points, pres. proposed to eliminate general causes of the war through free trade, disarmament, freedom of the seas, impartial adjustment of colonial claims and open diplomacy; 14th "general association of nations"
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| League of Nations | General association of nations
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| Treaty of Versailles | signed by Germany, had weakened or discarded many of Wilson's proposals; However, Germany was stripped of its armed forces and was made to pay reparations or war damages in the amount of 33 billion to the allies
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| reparations | war damages
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| Sarajevo | where Ferdinand was assassinated
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| Verdun | d
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| Versailles | where treaty was signed
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| Eastern Front | side of the war with Russia
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| Western Front | Side of the war with Britain and France
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| Belleau Wood | d
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| Tannenburg | d
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| Somme | d
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| Gavrilo Princep | d
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| Nicholas II | Russian king
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| Wilhelm II | German king
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| Triple Alliance | Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary
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