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Olivia Adams
Chapter 11 Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Nationalism | A devotion to the interests and culture of one's nation. |
Militarism | The development of armed forces and their use as a tool of diplomacy. |
Allies | The group of nations Britain, France, and Russia, and later the US, Italy, and others opposed to Central Powers. |
Central Powers | An empire of mostly Middle Eastern Lands controlled by the Turks. |
Archduke Franz Ferdinand | Heir to the Austrian throne. |
No Man's Land | A barren expanse of mud pockmarked with shell craters and filled with barbed. |
Trench Warfare | Armies fought for mere yards of ground. |
Lusitania | British liner sunk near Ireland killing 128 Americans. |
Zimmermann Note | A telegram from the German Foreign minister to German ambassador in Mexico that was intercepted by British agents. |
Eddie Rickenbacker | Famous fighter pilot of World War I |
Selective Service Act | Required men to register with the government in order to be randomly selected for military service. |
Convey System | Which a heavy guard of destroyers escorted merchant ships back and forth across the Atlantic in groups. |
American Expeditionary Force | US force led by General John Pershing who fought with Europe during World War I |
General John J. Pershing | Led the AEF |
Alvin York | Redheaded mountaineer from Tennessee sought exemption as a conscientious objector |
Conscientious Objector | A person who opposes warfare on moral grounds |
Armistice | Truce that ended the war |
War Industries Board | Encouraged companies to use mass-production techniques to increase efficiency |
Bernard M. Baruch | A prosperous businessman that led the War Industries Board |
Propaganda | A kind of biased communication designed to influence people's thoughts and actions |
George Creel | The head of the CPI and a former muckraking journalist |
Espionage and Sedition Acts | A person could be fined up to $10,000 and sentenced to years in jail for interfering with the war effort or for saying anything disloyal profane or abusive about the government or the war |
Great Migration | The large-scale movement of hundreds of thousands of Southern blacks to cities in the north |
Fourteen Points | Famous speech given from Wilson |
League of Nations | Would provide a forum for nations to discuss and settle their grievances without having to resort to war |
Georges Clemenceau | lived through two German invasions of France and was determined to prevent future invasions |
David Lloyd George | The British prime minister |
Treaty of Versailles | established nine new nations including Poland aND Czechoslovakia |
Reparations | War damages |
War-Guilt Clause | Forced Germany to admit to admit sole responsibility for starting WWI |
Henry Cabot Lodge | Conservative Senators leader was suspicious of the provision for joint economic and military action against aggression |