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american history 14
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Guerillas | an armed band that uses surprose attacks and sabotage rather than warfare |
| John J pershing | sent more than 6000 US troops across the border to find and capture villa |
| Triple Entente | Great Britain, France, and Russia |
| Nationalism | a feeling of intense pride of one's homeland, became a powerful idea in Europe |
| Self- Determination | people who belong to a nation should have their own country and government |
| Black Hand | Serbian nationalist group; one of the members killed Ferdinand |
| Pancho Villa | led a group of guerillas into new mexico |
| Allies | France, Russia, Great Britain, USA, Italy |
| Central Powers | Germany, Ottoman Empire, Hungary- Austria, and Bulgaria |
| propaganda | information designed to influence opinion |
| contraband | prohibited materials, to prevent neutral countries from shipping food to Germany |
| U-Boat | submarines that the Germans deployed |
| Lusitania | British passenger liner sunk by German U boats. 128 americans were killed |
| Sussex pledge | promise by Germany not to sink any more merchant ships |
| Zimmerman telegram | general official sent a note and wanted mexico to serve with germany. that it was intercepted by the british |
| consrciption | forced military service |
| selective service act | required all men between ages 21-30 to register for the draft |
| schenck v. the U.S. | rule that an individuals freedom could be curved when the words uttered constitute clear and present danger |
| no mans land | a rough barren landscape marked with craters from artillery fire |
| doughboys | nickname for american soldiers |
| convoys | merchant ships and troop transports gathered into groups |
| Bolsheviks | group of communist led by vladimie lenin |
| Vladimir Lenin | leader of the Bolshevik party |
| war industries board | their job was to coordinate the production of was materials |
| Bernard Baruch | appointed to run the WIB |
| victory Gardens | helped raise their own crops leaving more food for troops |
| great migration | massive population movement of african americans from the south to the north for jobs |
| committee on public information | had the task of 'selling' the war to the american people |
| espionage | spying to aquire secret government information |
| army nursing corps | the only women to actually serve in the army overseas |
| armstice | ceasefire, that ended the war |
| big four | the leaders of the victorious allied nations |
| fourteen points | based on the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities |
| league of nations | general association of nations |
| treaty of versailles | treaty signed by germany for peace |
| reparations | war dameges |
| red scare | nationwide panic of communists |
| j edgar hoover | head of the intelligence division |
| trench warfare | main form of warfare during the ww1 soldiers would dig trenches and fortify themsleves |
| mustard gas | causes vomiting, blindness, and suffocation first used by the germans |
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