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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Eddie Rickenbacker | American flying ace in WWI |
| flying ace | fighter pilot who shoots down five or more enemy aircraft |
| poison gas | used in WWI; a form of chemical warfare |
| Manfred von Richthofen | The Red Baron |
| Fokker | German aircraft manufacturer; made planes for WWI |
| Sopwith | English aircraft manufacturer; made planes for WWI |
| Doughboys | nickname for United States soldiers in WWI |
| submarines | WWI was the first war in which these made a major difference |
| Woodrow Wilson | uninterested in European conflicts, but brought America into war expand his control over the U.S. |
| Versailles | a harmful and useless treaty was written in this town |
| Lloyd George | English Prime Minister during WWI |
| Georges Clemenceau | French Prime Minister during WWI |
| 116,000 | U.S. battlefield deaths during WWI |
| 1,800,000 | German battlefield deaths during WWI |
| armistice | a "cease-fire" agreement |
| influenza | killed millions around the globe during WWI |
| Balkans | southeastern Europe, where the trouble began |
| Franz-Josef | Austrian emperor at the start of WWI |
| mobilize | get the army ready to fight |
| Russia | almost had a free government between March and November 1917 |
| The Red Baron | German flying ace who shot down over 80 aircraft |