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History 8-ch23-2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Lusitania | A British passenger liner that was topedoed by Germany and sank in 15 minutes killing 1,000 people including 128 Americans |
| Zimmermann telegram | The secret communication that encouraged Mexico to work with Germany in the war |
| Selective Service Act | Established a military draft |
| propoganda | information designed to influence opinion |
| autocracy | government in which one person has unlimited power. |
| Mexico | The country that was asked to help Germany and reconquer Texas, New Mexico and Arizona |
| Russia | A revolution took place in this country that overthrew the monarchy and pushed America close to entering the war. |
| Wilson | President who felt that Americans should remain neutral toward the war. |
| Britain | These troops stopped American Ships from getting to German ports |
| Germany | Announced that they would use U-boats to sink any ships entering British ports |
| Archduke Franz Ferdinand | the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His assisination led to the War in Europe |
| Allied Powers | Great Britain, France, Russia |
| Central Powers | Germany, Austria, Hungary and the Ottoman (Turkish) Empire |
| nationalism | a feeling of intense loyalty to one's country or group. |
| militarism | building up of the military |
| alliance system | a defense agreement amongst nations |
| entente | an understanding between nations |
| Bolsheviks | A group of communists who overthrew the democratic Russian government. |
| Vladimir Lenin | The leader of the Bolsheviks |
| Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | Lenin signed this with Germany and surrendered Poland, the Ukraine, and other territories to the Germans. |
| Wilhelm II | the German kaiser or emporer who was forced to give up his throne. |
| convoy | teams of navy destroyers who escorted merchant ships across the Atlantic |
| front | line of battle |
| armistice | an agreement to end the fighting |
| Herbert Hoover | appointed by Wilson to head the new Food Administration |
| Great Migration | African Americans left their homes in the rural south to seek jobs and settle in northern cities |
| mobilization | the gathering of resources and the preparation of war |
| dissent | opposition |
| socialist | believed industries should be publicly owned |
| pacifist | people opposed to the use of violence |
| rationing | limitation of use |
| espionage | spying |
| sabotage | secret action to damage the war effort |
| Woodrow Wilson | President of the US in negotiations at the Paris Peace Converence |
| David Lloyd George | Great Britain Prime Minister in negotiations at the Paris Peace Converence |
| Georges Clemenceau | Premeir of France in negotiations at the Paris Peace Converence |
| Vittorio Orlando | Prime Minister of Italy in negotiations at the Paris Peace Converence |
| Treaty of Versailles | signed between the Allies and Germany to end the war |
| Henry Cabot Lodge | head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who opposed the treaty |
| Fourteen Points | Wilson's Peace Plan proposal |
| League of Nations | A general association of nations that would meet regularly to resolve international disputes. |
| reparations | payments for the damages the Germans caused in the war |
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