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WWI Vocab Activity
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Archduke Franz Ferdinand | heir to the Austrian throne, his death created a domino effect b/w triple Entente and Triple Alliance thus causing WWI |
| American Expeditionary Force | First group of American soldiers to travel to Europe after the war. |
| General John Pershing | Leader of the A.E.F and all American force in WWI |
| Alvin York | American war hero who reached celebrity status |
| Henry Cabot Lodge | conservative senator worried that the league of nations threatened U.S.'s foreign Policy of isolationism |
| Propaganda | biased form of communication used to influence public opinion usually found in newspapers and magazines |
| George Creed | head committed of public information, used propaganda on behalf of government |
| Bernard M. Barmuch | head of the war industries board, a business man who helps factories increase efficiency |
| George Clemenceau | French premier during WWI |
| David Lloyd George | British prime minister during WWI |
| War Guilt Clause | forced Germany to admit sole responsibility for the great war |
| War Industries Board | an agency established during WWI to increase efficiency and discourage wast in war-related industries |
| espionage & sedation act | two laws enacted in 1917 & 1918 that imposed harsh penalties on anyone interfering with or speaking against U.S. participation in WWI |
| Great Migration | The large scale movement of African Americans from the south to northern cities in the early 20th century |
| Fourteen Point | the principles making up president Woodrow Wilson's plan for world peace following WWI |
| League of Nations | an association of nations established in 1920 to promote international cooperation and peace |
| Treaty of Versailles | in 1919 the treaty that ended WWI |
| Reparations | compensation paid by a defeated nation for the damage or injury it inflicted during the war |
| Nationalism | a belief that national interests should be placed ahead fo regional concerns and that foreign policy should be guided by national self-interest |
| Militarism | the policy of building up armed forces in aggressive preparedness for war |
| Allies | the group of nations that opposed the central powers; great britain, france, russia, italy, U.S. |
| Central powers | the group of nations that opposed the allies in WWI; bulgaria, ottoman empire, germany, austria hungary |
| Trench Warfare | military operations in which the opposing forces attack and counterattack from systems of fortified ditches rather than on an open battlefield |
| Lusitania | British passenger ship that was sunk by a German u-boat in 1915 |
| Zimmerman Note | a message sent in 1917 by the German foreign minister to the German Ambassador in mexico, proposing a german-mexican alliance and promising to help mexico regain texas, new mexico, and arizona if the U.S. entered WWI |
| selective service act | a law enacted in 1917, that required men to register for military service |
| convoy system | the protection of merchant ships from u-boat attacks by having the ships travel in groups |
| conscientious objector | a person who refuses, on moral grounds, to participate in warfare |
| Armistice | stopping of warfare by mutual agreement |
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