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Chp11Vocab_Ernst
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Nationalism | A devotion to the interests and culture of one's nation |
| Militarism | the policy of building up armed forces in aggressive preparedness for war and their use as a tool of diplomacy |
| Allies | group of nations originally consisting of Great Britain, France, and Russia and later joined by the United States. |
| Central Power | group of nations led by Germany, Austria-Hungry, and the Ottoman Empire that opposed the Allies in World War I. |
| Archduke Franz Ferdinand | heir to the Austria throne |
| No Man's Land | an unoccupied 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 opened battlefied |
| Lusitania | a British passenger ship that was sunk by a German U-boats in 1915 |
| Zimmermann Note | a message sent in 1917 by the German foreign minister to the German ambassador in Mexico, proposing a German-Mexican alliance and promising to help Mexico regain Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona if the United States entered WWI. |
| Eddie Rickenbacker | famous fighter pilot of World War I. |
| Selective Service Act | a law, enacted in 1917, that required men to register for military service |
| Convoy System | the protection of merchant ships form U-boat-German submarine-attacks by having the ships travel in large groups escorted by warships. |
| American Expeditionary Force | the U.S. Force , led by General John Pershing, who fought with the Allies in Europe during WWI. |
| General John J. Pershing | the leader of the American Expeditionary Force |
| Alvin York | America's Greatest War Heroes |
| Conscientious Objector | a person who refuses, on moral grounds, to participate in warfare |
| Armistice | a truce, or agreement to end an armed conflict |
| War Industries Board | an agency established during WWI to increase efficiency and discourage waste in war-related industries |
| Bernard M. Baruch | a prosperous businessman |
| Propaganda | a kind of biased communication designed to influence people's thoughts and actions |
| George Creel | a former muckraking journalist |
| Espionage and Sedition Acts | two laws, enacted in 1917, and 1918, that imposed harsh penalties on anyone interfering with or speaking against U.S. participation in WWI. |
| Great Migration | the large-scale movement of African Americans from the South to Northern Cities in the early 20th Century |
| Fourteen Points | the principles making up President Woodrow Wilson's plan for world peace following WWI. |
| League of Nations | an association of nations established in 1920 to promote international cooperation and peace. |
| Georges Clemenceau | a french premier, had lived through two german invasions of france |
| 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. |
| Reparations | the compensation paid by a defeated nation for the damage or injury it inflicted during a war. |
| War-Guilt Clause | a provision in the Treaty of Versailles by which Germany acknowledge that it alone was responsible for World War I. |
| Henry Cabot Lodge | Conservative senators, were suspicious of the provision for joint economic and military action against aggression. |
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