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chap 22
| TERMS | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|
| neutrality | wilson issues a declaration of neutralty when the war broke out, as precedented |
| SUBMARINE WARFARE | germany's hope for matching british naval powers was thru this new naval weapon |
| Lusitania | British passenger liner, torpedoed and sank, 128 americans killed, threatened neutrality |
| sussex pledge | germany promised not to sink merchant or passenger ships without giving due warning |
| allied powers | great britain, france, and russia |
| central powers | germany, austria-hungary, and the ottoman empire/turkey |
| propaganda | britain commanded the war news cabled daily to the u.s. and made sure that they were well supplied with stories of german soldiers committing atrocities in Belgium and eastern france |
| preparedness | greater defense expenditures, promoted expansion of armed forces |
| jeanette rankin | voted no defiantly with Robert la folette on the declaration of war |
| edward house | colonel, TX, chief foreign policy adviser to negotiate a peace settlement in london, paris, and berlin |
| zimmerman telegram | gremany propsed mexico join their side in the war in exchange for help to recover US territories, convinced wilson to fight |
| russian revolution | russian revolutionaries overthrew the czars govt and proclaimed a republic |
| mobilization | a race against time, germany was planning to unleash submairnes, the US had to act fast to help |
| george creel | progressive journalist, took chasrge of propaganda agency, Committee on public Information, enlisted the volutary serivces ofentertainers to promote the heroism of soldiers and the villainy of kaiser |
| war agencies | War industries board- set higher production priorities to win the war, food administration- encourages eationg less food so more could b shipped, Fuel Admin.-to save coal, Natl war labor board-won labor concessions that had been denied |
| espionage act (1917) | provided for imprisonment of up to 20 yrs for persons who tried to incite rebellion of armed forces or obstruct the operation of the draft |
| sedition act (1918) | prohibited anyone from making disloyal remarks about the US govt |
| schenck v. U.S. | concluded the right to free speech could be limited if it presented clear and present danger |
| selective service act | 1917, devised by Newton Baker, democratic method for drafting soldiers |
| bolsheviks | communists that led a second revolution in russia |
| american expeditionary force | commanded by john pershing, assumed independent responsibility for one segment of the western front |
| fourteen points | wilson presented a detailed list of war aims to congress in 1918 |
| treaty of versailles | palace outside paris, every nation involved in the war sent at least one representative for a peace conference |
| big four | reps from great birtain, france, italy, and the US met almost every day |
| david lloyd george, georges clemenceau, and vittorio orlando | met with wilson as reps from 3 countries |
| red scare | anti-german hysteria after the war that turned into the anti-communist hysteria |
| league of nations | international peacekeeping organization, each member nation must stand ready to protect independence and territorial integrity of the other nation |
| henry cabot lodge | leading senate republican who led the reservationalists |
| reservationalists | faction of the senate that would accept the league if certain reservations were added to the covenant |
| irreconcilables | faction of the senate that (about a dozen senators) would not accept US member ship in the league no matter how the covenant was worded |
| palmer raids | series of unexplained bombings that caused attorney general A Mitchell palmer to establish a special office to gather info on radicals |
| emma goldman | outspoken radical, deported, one of the 6000 mostly foreign people arrested based on limited criminal evidence |
| strikes | strike for higher pay in seattle, in boston protest firing of police officers |
| race riots | caused by northern migration of african americans which caused racial tension, violence in many cities, increased violece in the south, lynchings |
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