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1. Alsace-Lorraine territory that France lost to Germany.
2. militarism glorification of the military or the growth of the army.
3. Francis Ferdinand was an Archduke and heir to the Austria-Hungarian throne. was assassinated by a serbian.
4. William ii German emperor who assured Austria-Hungary that it would remain an ally.
5. Western Front was the critical battle front for France. Who ever won here won the war.
6. Casualties men who were killed, wounded, or missing from battle
7. Contraband goods that were usually weapons to help fight a war.
8. U-boats submarines
9. Lusitania Germany sunk this British passenger ship of the coast of Ireland.
10. Zimmermann note German foreign minister Arthur Zimmermann sent a telegram to mexico trying to set an alliance against the U.S.
11. Selective Service Act an act passed by congress in where young men were drafted for military service in Europe.
12. Bernard Baruch Headed the Council of National Defense. was an influential wall street broker who reported directly to the president.
13. Committee on Public Information (CPI) duty was to inform the public about the causes and nature of the war.
14. George Creel was appointed as the director of the CPI. a former writer and an admirer of American institutions.
15. conscientious objectors people who had religious beliefs or morals that would not allow them to fight in the war
16. Espionage Act an act passed by congress allowing postal authorities to ban treasonable or seditious newspapers, magazines. or printed materials from the mail.
17. Great Migration African Americans in the South that moved towards the North to the "land of hope" for many reasons
18. convoy a group of merchant ships that sailed together. it was to provide mutual safety at sea.
19. Vladimir Lenin a radical communist staged a revolution and gained control of Russia.
20. John J. Pershing the commander of American forces in Europe.
21. Fourteen Points an idea produced by president wilson; proposing "peace without victory" and noble ideals, not greed and venegeance.
22. self-determination the right of people to choose their own form of government.
23. league of Nations was a group created to secure "mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike."
24. Henry Cabot Lodge a Republican foreign expert. was not invited to join Wilson in his peace delegation.
25. reparations payment for war damages
26. "irreconcilables" isolationaist senators that opposed any treaty that had a league of nations folded into it.
27. "reservationists" a group of senators that opposed to the treaty as it was written. some only wanted small changes.
28. influenza was a flu or virus
29. inflation rising prices (money not being what it is worth)
30. Red Scare a fear of suspected communists and radicals thought to be plotting a revolution within the U.S.
31. Palmer Raids where police arrested thousands of people (radicals and some immigrants form southern or Eastern Europe)
32. Nicola Sacco an Italian immigrant and known anarchists. paled up with Vanzetti in a shooting killing to men in a shoe factory.
33. Bartolomeo Vanzetti an Italian immigrant and known anarchists. paled up with Sacco in a shooting killing to men in a shoe factory.
34. Warren G. Harding the Republican candidate, from Ohio, and would also serve as the final rejection of the league.
35. creditor nation were other countries owed the united states more money than the united states owed them.
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