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Vocabulary
Chapter 10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1. Alsace-Lorraine | when France took some German states, territory that was lost by france |
| 2. militarism | glorification of the military |
| 3. Western Front | battle front between ally and central powers during world war 1 |
| 4. casualty | men in battle who have dies, been wounded, or went missing |
| 5. contraband | supplies captured by the enemy during wartime |
| 6. U-boat | German submarine, good for sneak attacks |
| 7. Lusitania | British passenger liner that was sunk by German u-boat |
| 8. Zimmerman Note | telegram written by George Zimmerman in German to Mexico trying to form an alliance and attack the US |
| 9. Selective Service Act | act passed by congress in 1917 that allowed men to be drafted for the military |
| 10. CPI | government agency that encourages Americans to support the war |
| 11. George Creel | director of the CPI appointed by Wilson had a campaign to "sell America" |
| 12. Conscientious Objector | a person whose moral or religious beliefs get in the way of them fighting in the war |
| 13. Espionage Act | enacted severe penalties to any person who is disloyal |
| 14. Great Migration | movement for African American moving from the south to the industrial north |
| 15. Convoy | group of merchant ships protected by war ships |
| 16. fourteen points | list of terms for resolving world wars or any other war drafted by Woodrow Wilson |
| 17. Self-determination | right of people to make their own government |
| 18. League of nations | world organization after WW1 the promoted peaceful resolutions to world problems |
| 19. reparations | payment for war damages |
| 20. irreconcilables | isolationists who opposed any treaty ending the war with the league of notions in it |
| 21. reservationists | group of senators that opposed the treaty of Versailles ending the war without certain changes being made |
| 22. influenza | flu virus |
| 23. Inflation | rising prices |
| 24. Palmer Raids | raids against communists |
| 25. Creditor Nation | a country that is owed more money then it has to pay other countries |
| 26. Red Scare | fear the communists were going to ruin the American way of life |
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