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chap 22

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neutrality   wilson issues a declaration of neutralty when the war broke out, as precedented  
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SUBMARINE WARFARE   germany's hope for matching british naval powers was thru this new naval weapon  
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Lusitania   British passenger liner, torpedoed and sank, 128 americans killed, threatened neutrality  
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sussex pledge   germany promised not to sink merchant or passenger ships without giving due warning  
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allied powers   great britain, france, and russia  
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central powers   germany, austria-hungary, and the ottoman empire/turkey  
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propaganda   britain commanded the war news cabled daily to the u.s. and made sure that they were well supplied with stories of german soldiers committing atrocities in Belgium and eastern france  
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preparedness   greater defense expenditures, promoted expansion of armed forces  
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jeanette rankin   voted no defiantly with Robert la folette on the declaration of war  
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edward house   colonel, TX, chief foreign policy adviser to negotiate a peace settlement in london, paris, and berlin  
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zimmerman telegram   gremany propsed mexico join their side in the war in exchange for help to recover US territories, convinced wilson to fight  
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russian revolution   russian revolutionaries overthrew the czars govt and proclaimed a republic  
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mobilization   a race against time, germany was planning to unleash submairnes, the US had to act fast to help  
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george creel   progressive journalist, took chasrge of propaganda agency, Committee on public Information, enlisted the volutary serivces ofentertainers to promote the heroism of soldiers and the villainy of kaiser  
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war agencies   War industries board- set higher production priorities to win the war, food administration- encourages eationg less food so more could b shipped, Fuel Admin.-to save coal, Natl war labor board-won labor concessions that had been denied  
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espionage act (1917)   provided for imprisonment of up to 20 yrs for persons who tried to incite rebellion of armed forces or obstruct the operation of the draft  
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sedition act (1918)   prohibited anyone from making disloyal remarks about the US govt  
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schenck v. U.S.   concluded the right to free speech could be limited if it presented clear and present danger  
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selective service act   1917, devised by Newton Baker, democratic method for drafting soldiers  
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bolsheviks   communists that led a second revolution in russia  
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american expeditionary force   commanded by john pershing, assumed independent responsibility for one segment of the western front  
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fourteen points   wilson presented a detailed list of war aims to congress in 1918  
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treaty of versailles   palace outside paris, every nation involved in the war sent at least one representative for a peace conference  
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big four   reps from great birtain, france, italy, and the US met almost every day  
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david lloyd george, georges clemenceau, and vittorio orlando   met with wilson as reps from 3 countries  
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red scare   anti-german hysteria after the war that turned into the anti-communist hysteria  
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league of nations   international peacekeeping organization, each member nation must stand ready to protect independence and territorial integrity of the other nation  
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henry cabot lodge   leading senate republican who led the reservationalists  
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reservationalists   faction of the senate that would accept the league if certain reservations were added to the covenant  
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irreconcilables   faction of the senate that (about a dozen senators) would not accept US member ship in the league no matter how the covenant was worded  
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palmer raids   series of unexplained bombings that caused attorney general A Mitchell palmer to establish a special office to gather info on radicals  
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emma goldman   outspoken radical, deported, one of the 6000 mostly foreign people arrested based on limited criminal evidence  
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strikes   strike for higher pay in seattle, in boston protest firing of police officers  
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race riots   caused by northern migration of african americans which caused racial tension, violence in many cities, increased violece in the south, lynchings  
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