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World War 1 Ch. 10
Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alsace-Larraine | a territory France lost to Germany |
| militarism | glorification of the military |
| Francis Ferdinand | in 1914, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, he and his wife were shot by ethnic Serbs. |
| William II | German emperor |
| Western Front | critical battle front in France |
| casualty | soldiers killed, wounded, and missing |
| contraband | weapons and other articals used to fight a war |
| U-boat | submarines |
| Lusitania | sunk by a German U-boat off the coast of Ireland |
| Zimmermann note | proposed an alliance with Mexico and Germany |
| Selective Service Act | passed by Congress in May 1917, authorizing a draft of young men for military service |
| Bernard Baruch | an influential Wall Street investment broker who reported directly to the President |
| Committee on Public Information (CPI) | educated the public about the causes and nature of the war |
| George Creel | director of the CPI |
| conscientious objector | people whose moral or religious beliefs forbid them to fight in wars |
| Epionage Act | passed by Congress in June 1917, allowing postal anuthorities to ban treasonable or seditious newspapers, magazines, or printed materials from the mail |
| Great Migration | movement of African Americans in the twentieth century from the rural South to the industrial North |
| convoy | groups of merchant ships sailed together, protected by warships |
| Vladimir Lenin | led radical communists in November 1917, staging a revolution and gained control of Russia |
| John J. Pershing | commander of American forces in Europe |
| Fourteen Points | list of terms for resolving World War I and future wars outlined by President Woodrow Wilson |
| self-determination | the right of people to choose their own form of government |
| League of Nations | world organization established after the World War I to promote peaceful cooperation between countries |
| Henry Cabot Lodge | Republican foreign policy expert |
| reparations | payment for war damages |
| "irreconcilables" | isolationist senators who opposed any treaty ending World War I that had a League of Nations folded into it |
| "reservationists" | a group of Senators, led by Henry Cabot Lodge, who opposed the Treaty of Versailles to end World War I, unless specific changes were included |
| influenza | flu |
| inflation | rising prices |
| Red Scre | a wave of widespread fear of suspected communists and radicals thought to be plotting revolution within the United States |
| Palmer Raids | a series of raids in early 1920 |
| Nicola Sacco | Italian immigrant and anarchist |
| Bartomlomeo Vanzetti | Italian immigrant and anarchist |
| Warren G. Harding | Republican candidate would serve as a final rejection of the league |
| creditor nation | country which is owed more money by other countries than it owes other countries |
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