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US History Chap. 10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1. Alsace-Lorraine | the territory France lost during that conflict |
| 2. militarism | glorification of the military |
| 3. Western Front | the side that won would win the war |
| 4. casualty | soldiers killed |
| 5. contraband | weapons and other articles used to fight a war |
| 6. U-boat | submarines |
| 7. Lusitania | British passenger liner off the coast of Ireland |
| 8. Zimmermann note | proposed an alliance with Mexico |
| 9. Selective Service Act | May 1917, authorized a draft of young men for military service in Europe |
| 10. CPI | Committee on Public Information, to educate the public causes and nature of the war |
| 11. conscientious objector | people whose moral of religious beliefs forbid them to fight in wars |
| 12. Espionage Act | allowing postal authorities to ban treasonable of seditious newspapers, magiazines, etc |
| 13. Great Migration | African Americans left their homes in the South |
| 14. convoy | groups of merchants ships sailed together, protected by warships |
| 15. Fourteen Points | Wilson answered Lenins's charges about the nature of the conflict by outlining America's war aims |
| 16. self-determination | or the right of people to choose their own form of government |
| 17. League of Nations | to secure "mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike" |
| 18. reparations | payment for war damages |
| 19. "irreconcilables" | these isolationist senators opposed any treaty that the League of Nations folded into it |
| 20. "reservationists" | were opposed to the treaty as it was written |
| 21. influenza | flu |
| 22. inflation | rising prices |
| 23. Red Scare | a wave of widespread fear of suspected communists and radicals thought to be plotting revolution |
| 24. Plamer Raids | police arrested thousands of people |
| 25. creditor nation | that other countries owed the US more money than the US owed them |