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DV/Chapter 14
DV/American History/14
| Definition | Vocabulary Word |
|---|---|
| General who seized power in Mexico and ordered for Madero to be killed | Victoriano Huerta |
| Led a group of guerrillas that burned the town of Columbus, New Mexico and killed a number of Americans | Pancho Villa |
| US General who led 6,000 troops across the border into Mexico to capture Villa | John J. Pershing |
| When Germany allied with Italy and Austria-Hungary to protect itself | Triple Alliance |
| When the British refused to sign a formal alliance so their new relationship with France and Russia became known as an entente corridale. The three became known as this. | Triple Entente |
| The idea that people who belong to a nation should have their own country and government | self-determination |
| In the 1800's it was Nationalism that led to a crisis in southeastern Europe in this region | Balkans |
| Heir to Austro-Hungarian throne. He was an Archduke, who visited the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo and was shot to death. | Franz Ferdinand |
| Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria joined to form this | Central Powers |
| Information designed to influence opinion | Propaganda |
| Prohibited materials | contraband |
| German submarines used in World War I | U-boats |
| A British passenger liner that entered the war zone and was attacked | Lusitania |
| Germanys promise to sink no more merchant ships without warning | Sussex Pledge |
| Written by German official Arthur Zimmermann to the German ambassador in Mexico proposing that Mexico ally itself with Germany incase of a war with the US. Intercepted by British Intelligence leaked in the US, American felt war necessary | Zimmermann Telegram |
| Forced military service | Conscription |
| Instead of the military running a draft it required all men between ages 21-30 to register for the draft | selective service |
| The only women to actually serve in the army. There were over 20,000 nurses that served in the war. | Army Nursing Corps. |
| It's job was to coordinate the production of war materials | War Industries Board |
| Was appointed to run the War Industries Board | Bernard Baruch |
| Citizens planted them to raise their own vegetables saving more for troops | victory gardens |
| It was introduced by Harry Garfield, the Fuel Administrator, to conserve energy | daylight savings time |
| Used to raise money for the war, a way for the government to borrow money from citizens | Liberty Bonds |
| Used to raise money for the war, a way for the government to borrow money from citizens | Victory Bonds |
| Made to prevent strikes from disrupting the war effort | National War Labor Board |
| Had the task of selling the war to Americans | Committee on Public Information |
| Spying to acquire secret government information | Espionage |
| The space between the opposing trenches, a rough barren landscape pockmarked with craters from artillery fire | "No Man's Land" |
| A nickname for American soldiers | Doughboys |
| Groups of troop transports and merchant ships | convoys |
| Groups of Communists, competed for power in Russia | Bolsheviks |
| Leader of Bolshevik Party, overthrew Russian government and established a Communist government | Vladimir Lenin |
| Under this treaty Russia lost substantial territory giving up Ukraine, its Polish and Blatic territories, and Finland | Treaty of Brest-Litovisk |
| A ceasefire that ends the war | Armistice |
| Wilson's plan for peace,based on "the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities" | Fourteen Points |
| A general association of nations | League of Nations |
| It stripped Germany of its armed forces and made them pay war damages. It required Germany to acknowledge guilt for World War I and its devastation | Treaty of Versailles |
| War damages | reparations |
| Governor of Massachusetts during World War I. He had to call in the National Guard when riot and looting erupted in Boston during a police strike | Calvin Coolidge |
| The head of US Steel, refused to talk to union leaders | Elbert H. Gary |
| An organization for coordinating the activities of communist parties in other countries | Communist International |
| Nationwide panic that Communists might seize power of US as strikes erupted across the United States | Red Scare |
| United States Attorney General whose home was damaged by a bomb thought to be a nationwide conspiracy by Communists or revolutionaries trying to destroy the American way of life | A. Mitchell Palmer |
| Head of the General Intelligence Division later known as the FBI | J. Edgar Hoover |
| Expelled form the country | deported |
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