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Ch. 10
Chapter 10
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 1. militarism | glorification of the military |
| 2. Western Front | battle front between the Allies and Central Powers in western Europe during World War I |
| 3. casually | soldiers killed, wounded, and missing |
| 4. contraband | supplies captured from an enemy during wartime |
| 5. U-boat | German submarine |
| 6. Lusitania | British passenger liner suck by a German U-boat during World War I |
| 7. Zimmermann note | telegram written by German Foreign Minister Zimmermann proposing an alliance between Germany and Mexico against the U.S. during WWI |
| 8. Selective Service Act | act passed by Congress in 1917 authorizing a draft of men for military service |
| 9. CPI (Committee on Public Info) | government agency created during WWI to encourage Americans to support the war |
| 10. conscientious objector | person who moral or religious beliefs forbid him or her to fight in wars |
| 11. Espionage Act | act passed by Congress in 1917 enacting severe penalties for anyone engaged in disloyal or treasonable activities |
| 12. Great Migration | movement of African Americans in the 20th century from the rural South to the industrial North |
| 13. convoy | group of merchant ships sailing together, protected by warships |
| 14. Fourteen Points | list of terms for resolving WWI and future wars outlined by American President Woodward Wilson |
| 15. self-determination | the right of people to choose their own form of government |
| 16. League of Nations | world organization established after WWI to promote peaceful cooperation between countries |
| 17. reparations | payent for war damages |
| 18. "irreconcilbles" | isolationist senators who opposed any treaty ending WWI that had a League of Nations folded into it |
| 19. "reservationists" | a group of Senators, led by Henry Cabot Lodge, who opposed the Treaty of Versailles to end WWI, unless specific changes were included |
| 20. influenza | flu virus |
| 21. inflation | rising prices |
| 22. Red Scare | fear that communists were working to destroy the American way of life |
| 23. Palmer Raids | the series of raids in the early 1920s initiated by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, against suspected radicals and communists |
| 24. creditor nation | country which is owed more money by other countries than it owes other countries |
| 25. Alsace-Lorraine | territory that France lost to Germany |