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US History Chap. 10
Question | Answer |
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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 |