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US History chapter10
vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| territory that France lost during the conflict | Alsace-Lorraine |
| glorification of the military | militarism |
| critical battle front in France | Western Front |
| soldiers killed, wounded, and missing | casualties |
| supplies captured from an enemy during wartime | contraband |
| German submarine | U-boat |
| British passanger liner sunk by a U-boat | Lusitania |
| proposed an alliance with Mexico, stating that if the US declared war on Germany, Mexico should declare war on the US | Zimmermann note |
| authorized a draft of young men for military service in Europe | Selective Service Act |
| people who educated the public about the causes and nature of the war | CPI |
| people whose moral or religious beliefs forbid them to fight in wars | conscientious objectors |
| allowed postal authorities to ban treasonable or seditious newspapers, magazines, or printed materials from the mail | Espionage Act |
| movement of African Americans from theu rural South to the industrial North | Great Migration |
| groups of merchant ships sailed together, protected by warships | convoy |
| right for people to choose their own form of government | self-determination |
| world organization established after World War 1 to promote peaceful cooperation between countries | League of Nations |
| payment fro war damages | reparations |
| isolationist senators that opposed any treaty that had a League of Natios folded into it | "irreconcilables" |
| group of senators who opposed the Trety of Versailles to end World War 1, unless specific changes were included | reservationists |
| flu virus | influenza |
| rising prices | inflation |
| fear of suspected communists and radicals thought to be plotting revolution within the United States | Red Scare |
| series of raids in the early 1920s initiated by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, against suspected radicals and communists | Palmer Raids |
| country which is owed more money by other countries than it owes other countries | creditor nation |
| list of terms for resolving World War 1 and future wars outlined by American president Woodrow Wilson | Fourteen Points |