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Bowser Am Hist 12
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Militarism | glorification of military strength |
| no-man's-land | strip of bombed out territory that separated the trenches of opposing armies in WWI |
| trench warfare | military strategy of defending a position by fighting from the protection of deep ditches |
| Franz Ferdinand | The Archduke was heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne was assassinated -start of the War |
| Gavrilo Princip | Assassinated the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife |
| Allied Powers | Britain, France, Russia,Italy |
| Central Powers | Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire Bulgaria |
| Convoy system | use of armed vessels to escort unarmed merchant vessels transporting troops, supplies or volunteers |
| Sussex pledge | German pledge not to sink liners without warning |
| Robert Lansing | US Secretary of State that encouraged the trade of war materials with the Allies |
| National Defense Act | almost doubled the number of soldiers in the regular army |
| Zimmerman Note | Cable note sent from German foreign minister Zimmerman to Mexico proposing an alliance |
| Jeannette Rankin | Representative from Montana who opposed the war |
| Selective Service Act | required men between the ages of 18-45 to register with their local draft boards |
| John j Pershing | Experienced General that lead the American Expeditionary Force to France |
| William McAdoo | Secretary of the Treasury under President Wilson that declared anyone who did not support the bond effort was a friend of Germany |
| Food Administration | war board that regulated the production and supply of food |
| Herbert Hoover | appointed by Herbert Hoover to head the Food Administration |
| War Industries Board | Coordinated all other boards |
| Bernard Baruch | Director of the War Industries Board |
| National War Labor Board | arbitrated disputes between workers and employers |
| Harriot Stanton Blatch | she headed the Food Administration's Speakers'Bureau |
| Juliette Gordon Low | Founder of the Girl scouts of America |
| Great Migration | the movement of African Americans from the South to the North between 1915-1930 |
| Committee of Public Information | led a propaganda campaign to encourage Americans to support the war |
| Espionage Act | Federal law that outlawed acts of treason during world war I |
| Sedition Act | Federal Law during WWI that made written criticism of the government a crime |
| Bolsheviks | Group of radical Russian socialists |
| Battle of the Argonne Forest | Battle in which America suffered 120,000 casualties |
| Fourteen points | Woodrow Wilson's plan for world peace |
| League of Nations | International body designed to prevent offensive wars |
| Big Four | United States, France, Italy, Great Britain |
| David Lloyd George | British Prime minister- |
| Georges Clemenceau | French Premier |
| Vittorio Orlando | Italian Prime Minister |
| Treaty of Versailles | Peace treaty that ended WWI |
| Henry Cabot Lodge | Head of Senate Committee on Foreign relations, led the reservationists |
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