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chapter 11 vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Militarism | A devotion to the interests and culture's of one nation. |
| Militarism | The development of armed forces and their use as a tool of diplomacy. |
| Allies | The Triple Entente, consisting of France, Britain, and Russia. |
| Central Powers | Germany and Austria-Hungary, together with the Ottoman Empire - 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 wire. |
| trench warfare | In which armies fought for mere yards of ground. |
| Lusitania | Sunk by German U-Boat and brought Americans into the war. |
| Zimmermann note | A telegram from German foreign minister to the German ambassador in Mexico that was intercepted by British agents. |
| Eddie Rickenbacker | Famous fighter pilot of World War I, was a well known race car driver before the war. |
| Selective Service Act | The act required men to register with the government to be randomly selected for military service. |
| Convoy System | In which a heavy guard of destroyers escorted merchant ships back and forth across the Atlantic in groups. |
| American Expeditionary Force | Included men from widely separated parts of the country and led by John J. Pershing. |
| General John J. Pershing | Led the American Expeditionary Force. |
| Alvin York | One of america's greatest war heroes. |
| Conscientious Objector | A person who opposes warfare on moral grounds, pointing out that the bible says, "Thou shall not kill". |
| Armistice | A truce. |
| War industries Board | The main regulatory body. |
| Bernard M. Baruch | Leader of the WIB. |
| Propaganda | A kind of biased communication designed to influence people's thoughts and actions. |
| George Creel | The head of the CPI was a former muckraker journalist. |
| Espionage and Sedition Acts | A person could be fined up to $10,000 and sentenced to 20 years in jail for interfering with the war effort or for saying anything disloyal, profane, or abusive about the government or the war effort. |
| Great Migration | The large-scale movement of hundreds of thousands of southern blacks to cities in the north. |
| Fourteen Points | Speech delivered by Wilson before dress. |
| League of Nations | Would provide a forum for nations to discuss and settle their grievances without having to resort to war. |
| Georges Clemenceau | The french premier that 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 , Czechoslovakia, and the kingdom that later became Yugoslavia and shifted the boundaries of other nations. |
| Reparations | War damage. |
| War-Guilt Clause | It forced Germany to admit sole responsibility for starting World War I. |
| Henry Cabot Lodge | Headed conservative senators who were suspicious of the provision for joint economic and military action against aggression, even though it was voluntary. |
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