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10th Amer His/ch 11
10th American History Chapter 11-World War 1
| 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 diplomacy |
| allies | consisted of France, Britain, and Russia |
| central powers | an empire of mostly Middle Eastern lands controlled by the Turks |
| Archduke Franz Ferdinand | heir to the Austrian throne. |
| "no mans 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 continued for over three years |
| Lusitania | sunk by a U-boat (British Liner) |
| Zimmerman Note | a telegram form the German foreign minister to the German ambassador in Mexico that was intercepted by British aents |
| Selective Service Act | required men to register with the government in order to be randomly selected for military service |
| convoy system | a heavy guard of destroyers escorted merchant ships back and forth across the Atlantic in groups |
| American Expeditionary Force | (AEF) |
| General John J. Pershing | led the AEF |
| Alvin York | fought in the Meuse-Argonne and became America's greatest hero |
| conscientious objector | a person who oppose warfare on moral grounds, pointing our what Bible scripts to put in a book |
| armistice | peace treaty or a truce to end a war |
| War Industries Board | established in 1917 and reorganized in 1918 |
| Bernard M. Baruch | led the WIB and a prosperous business man |
| propaganda | a biased communication designed to influence peoples thoughts and actions |
| George Creel | head of the Committee on Public Information and as a former muckraker |
| 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 before congress delivered on Jan 18, 1918 |
| 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 tow German invasions of France and was determined to prevent future invasions |
| David Lloyd George | the British prime minister, had just won reelection on the slogan "Make Germany Pay" |
| Treaty of Versailles | established nine new nations including Poland, Czechoslovakia, and the kingdom that later became Yugoslavia |
| reparations | war damages |
| war-guilt clause | forcing Germany to admit sole responsibility for starting World War 1 |
| Henry Cabot Lodge | were suspicious of the provision for joint economic and military action against aggression, even though it was voluntary |
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