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DV/American History/14

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General who seized power in Mexico and ordered for Madero to be killed   Victoriano Huerta  
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Led a group of guerrillas that burned the town of Columbus, New Mexico and killed a number of Americans   Pancho Villa  
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US General who led 6,000 troops across the border into Mexico to capture Villa   John J. Pershing  
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When Germany allied with Italy and Austria-Hungary to protect itself   Triple Alliance  
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When the British refused to sign a formal alliance so their new relationship with France and Russia became known as an entente corridale. The three became known as this.   Triple Entente  
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The idea that people who belong to a nation should have their own country and government   self-determination  
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In the 1800's it was Nationalism that led to a crisis in southeastern Europe in this region   Balkans  
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Heir to Austro-Hungarian throne. He was an Archduke, who visited the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo and was shot to death.   Franz Ferdinand  
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Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria joined to form this   Central Powers  
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Information designed to influence opinion   Propaganda  
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Prohibited materials   contraband  
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German submarines used in World War I   U-boats  
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A British passenger liner that entered the war zone and was attacked   Lusitania  
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Germanys promise to sink no more merchant ships without warning   Sussex Pledge  
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Written by German official Arthur Zimmermann to the German ambassador in Mexico proposing that Mexico ally itself with Germany incase of a war with the US. Intercepted by British Intelligence leaked in the US, American felt war necessary   Zimmermann Telegram  
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Forced military service   Conscription  
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Instead of the military running a draft it required all men between ages 21-30 to register for the draft   selective service  
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The only women to actually serve in the army. There were over 20,000 nurses that served in the war.   Army Nursing Corps.  
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It's job was to coordinate the production of war materials   War Industries Board  
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Was appointed to run the War Industries Board   Bernard Baruch  
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Citizens planted them to raise their own vegetables saving more for troops   victory gardens  
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It was introduced by Harry Garfield, the Fuel Administrator, to conserve energy   daylight savings time  
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Used to raise money for the war, a way for the government to borrow money from citizens   Liberty Bonds  
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Used to raise money for the war, a way for the government to borrow money from citizens   Victory Bonds  
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Made to prevent strikes from disrupting the war effort   National War Labor Board  
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Had the task of selling the war to Americans   Committee on Public Information  
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Spying to acquire secret government information   Espionage  
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The space between the opposing trenches, a rough barren landscape pockmarked with craters from artillery fire   "No Man's Land"  
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A nickname for American soldiers   Doughboys  
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Groups of troop transports and merchant ships   convoys  
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Groups of Communists, competed for power in Russia   Bolsheviks  
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Leader of Bolshevik Party, overthrew Russian government and established a Communist government   Vladimir Lenin  
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Under this treaty Russia lost substantial territory giving up Ukraine, its Polish and Blatic territories, and Finland   Treaty of Brest-Litovisk  
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A ceasefire that ends the war   Armistice  
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Wilson's plan for peace,based on "the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities"   Fourteen Points  
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A general association of nations   League of Nations  
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It stripped Germany of its armed forces and made them pay war damages. It required Germany to acknowledge guilt for World War I and its devastation   Treaty of Versailles  
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War damages   reparations  
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Governor of Massachusetts during World War I. He had to call in the National Guard when riot and looting erupted in Boston during a police strike   Calvin Coolidge  
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The head of US Steel, refused to talk to union leaders   Elbert H. Gary  
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An organization for coordinating the activities of communist parties in other countries   Communist International  
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Nationwide panic that Communists might seize power of US as strikes erupted across the United States   Red Scare  
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United States Attorney General whose home was damaged by a bomb thought to be a nationwide conspiracy by Communists or revolutionaries trying to destroy the American way of life   A. Mitchell Palmer  
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Head of the General Intelligence Division later known as the FBI   J. Edgar Hoover  
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Expelled form the country   deported  
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