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Ch10 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1.Alsace-Lorraine | the territory France lost to Germany |
| 2.militarism | glorification of the military |
| 3.Francis Ferdinand | archduke who was heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary who was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip |
| 4.William II | German emperor |
| 5.Western Front | battle front between the Allies and Central Powers in western Europe during WWI |
| 6.casualty | soliders killed, wounded, and missing |
| 7.contraband | supplies captured from an enemy during wartime |
| 8.U-Boat | German submarine |
| 9.Lusitania | British passenger liner sunk by a German U-Boat during WWI |
| 10.Zimmerman note | telegram written by German Foreign Minister Zimmerman proposing an alliance between Germany and Mexico against the U.S. |
| 11.Selective Service Act | act passed by Congress in 1917 authorizing a draft of men for military service |
| 12.Bernard Baruch | an influential Wall Street investment broker who reported directly to the president |
| 13.CPI | "Committee on Public Information" government agency created to encourage Americans to support the war |
| 14.George Creel | director of the CPI who was a former journalist and a passionate admirer of American institutions |
| 15.conscientious objector | person whose moral or religious beliefs forbid him or her to fight in wars |
| 16.Espionage Act | act passed by Congress in 1917 enacting severe penalties for anyone engaged in disloyal or treasonable activities |
| 17.Great Migration | movement of African Americans in the twentieth century from the rural South to the industrial North |
| 18.convoy | group of merchant ships sailing together, protected by war ships |
| 19.Vladimir Lenin | lead radical communists to stage a revolution and gained control of Russia |
| 20.John J. Pershing | the commander of American forces in Europe |
| 21.Fourteen Points | list of terms for resolving WWI and future wars outlined by President Woodrow Wilson |
| 22.self-determination | the right of people to choose their own form of government |
| 23.League of Nations | world organization established after WWI to promote peaceful cooperation between countries |
| 24.Henry Cabot Lodge | a Republican foreign policy expert |
| 25.reparations | payment for war damages |
| 26."irreconcilables" | isolationist senators who opposed any treaty ending WWI that had a League of Nations folded into it |
| 27."reservationists" | a group of Senators,led by Henry Cabot Lodge, who opposed the Treaty of Versailles to end WWI, unless specific changes were included |
| 28.influenza | flu virus |
| 29.inflation | rising prices |
| 30.Red Scare | fear that communists were working to destroy the American way of life |
| 31.Palmer Raids | the series of raids in the early 1920s initiated by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, against suspected radicals and communists |
| 31.Nicola Sacco | Italian anarchist who (along with Vanzetti) was charged with shooting and killing 2 men during a holdup at a shoe factory in a town near Boston |
| 32.Bartolomeo Vanzetti | Italian anarchist who (along with Sacco) was charged with shooting and killing 2 men during a holdup at a shoe factory in a town near Boston |
| 33.Warren G.Harding | campaigned for a rejection of Wilsonian idealism |
| 34.creditor nation | country which is owed more money by other countries than it owes other countries |
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