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Marissa Russo
Chapter 11 Vocabulary
| Nationalism | a devotion to the interests and culture of ones nation. |
| Militarism | the policy of building up armed forces in aggressive preparedness for war and their use as a tool of diplomacy. |
| Allies | in World War I the group of nations originally consisting of Great Britain, France, and Russia and later joined by the United States, Italy, and others that opposed the Central Powers |
| Central Powers | the group of nations, led by Germany, Austria- Hungary and the Ottoman Empire that opposed the Allies in World War I. |
| Archduke Franz Ferdinand | heir to the Austrian throne. |
| No Man's Land | an occupied region between opposing armies. |
| Trench Warfare | military operations in which the opposing forces attack and counterattack from systems of fortified ditches rather than on an open battlefield. |
| Lusitania | British passenger ship that was sunk by a German U-boat in 1915 |
| Zimmermann Note | a message sent in 1917 by the German foreign minister to the Germman ambassador in Mexico proposing a German-Mexican alliance and promising to help Mexico regain Texas, New Mexico , and Arizona if the United States entered World War I. |
| Eddie Richenbacker | famous fighter pilot in World War I. |
| Selective Service Act | law, enacted in 1917, that required men to register for military service. |
| Convoy System | the protection of merchant ships from U-boat German submrine attack attack by having the ships travel in large groups escorted by warships. |
| American Expeditionary Force | the U.S. forces, led by General John Pershing who fought with the Allies in Europe during World War I. |
| General John J. Pershing | the commander of the American Expeditionary Force |
| Alvin York | one of the greatest war heroes. |
| Conscientious Objector | a person who refuses on moral grounds to participate in warfare. |
| Armistice | a truce or agreement to end armed conflict. |
| War Industries Board | an agency established during World War I to increase efficiency and discouraging waste in war related industries. |
| Bernard M. Baruch | a prosperous business man. |
| Propaganda | a kind of biased communication designed to influence people's thoughts and actions. |
| George Creel | the head of the CPI was a former muckraking journalist. |
| Espionage and Sedition Act | two laws enacted in 1917 and 1918 that imposed harsh penalties on anyone interfering with or speaking against U.S. participation in World War I. |
| Great Migration | the largest-scale movement of African Americans from the South to Northern cities in the early 20th century. |
| Fourteen Points | the principles making President Woodrow Wilson's plan for world peace in World War I. |
| League of Nations | an association of nation established in 1920 to promote international cooperation and peace. |
| Georges Clemenceau | the French premier |
| David Lloyd George | the British prime minister |
| Treaty of Versailles | the 1919 peace treaty at the end of World War I which established new nations, borders, and war reparations. |
| Reparation | the compensation paid by a defeated nation for the damage or injury it inflicted during a war. |
| War- Guilt Clause | provisions in the Treaty of Versailles by which Germany acknowledged that it alone was responsible for World War I. |
| Henry Cabot Lodge | was suspicious of the provisions for joint economic and military actions against aggression. |