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Olivia Adams
Chapter 11 Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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