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US history WWI
Chp 24
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| socialsim | government controls the economic political and social life, to provide the greatest good for the greatest number of people |
| Ferdinand Foch | Believed in military volunteerism |
| Black Hand | Terrorist group for a greater Serbia and assassinated Ferdinand Foch |
| types of fighting with trench warfare | *no mans land *barbed wire *machine guns *tunneling *flame throwers |
| Doughboys | American Soldiers |
| Sabotage | intentional destruction of property |
| General John J Pershing-Blackjack | Commander of American Troops in France |
| The causes of WWI | *Imperialism *Franco Prussian War *Rise of German navy *Entangling Alliances |
| New Weapons | submarine poisonious gas tanks airplanes |
| Armistice Day | Armistice signed between Allies and Germany 11-11-1918 |
| Karl Marx | most responsible for the rise of modern socialism |
| Rationaliam | idea that mans reason is the sole criterion for truth |
| GAvrilo Princip | threw a bomb under the car and killed Ferdinand |
| Military Volunteerism | the side with the strongest will, will win, not the side with the best weapons |
| selective service act | required all men from age 21 to 30 to register with the local draft boards |
| Irreconcilables | a group of 16 senators led by William Borah that opposed The League of Nations in any form |
| G W F Hegel | introduced dialectic thinking |
| Charles Darwin | Author of Origin of Species |
| Origin of Species | popularized the idea of Darwinism Evolution |
| Lusitania | large British luxury liner that the Germans sunk on May 7 1915 |
| Empiricism | theory that experience is the only source of knowledge |
| Materialism | reduces man to a complex machine whose personality is merely an inter-relation of chemical and physical properties |
| Balkans | Countries of the Balkan Mts Central powers vs Allies |
| Fourteen Points | President Woodrow Wilson's the only possible program for world peace |
| Hooverizing | Herbert Hoover wanted people to put Liberty Gardens in their backyards to help grow more food |
| Triple Entente | Great Britain France Russia |
| Treaty of Brest Litovsk | Made peace between Russia and Germany official |
| Belleau Wood | a battle between the US and Germany |
| Dictatorship | A country in which absolute power is exercised by a dictator |
| idealism | the cherishing of pursuit of high or noble principles, purposes, goals, etc |
| Triple Alliance | Germany Austria-Hungary Italy |
| moral relativity | no absolute truth |
| Zimmermann telegram | was sent to Mexico from Germany stating that MX and GER should form an alliance if the US entered the war. in return Mexico would regain her "lost territory" |
| Bolsheviks | group of radical communists ledby Vladimir Lenin |
| Liberty Loans | conducted to raise money to fund the war |
| contraband | items that, according to international law, may be seized when headed for an enemy port in war time |
| national defense act | provided an increase in the size of the regular army and the organizing of a national guard of 450,000 men, subject to be called into action by the president |
| Wilhelm II | leader of the Germans |
| Eric Ludendorff | leader of the Germans |
| Elements of the total war | 1 unrestricted submarine warfare 2 loss of American civilian lives 3 acts of sabotage 4 the draft 5 the ideas of WMD's 6 regular population is involved 7 money for the war effort |
| Chateau Thierry | one of the three major battles and one of the first US battles |
| Big Four | *Wilson-US *Orlando-Italy *George-Britain *Clemenceau-France |
| Alvin York | decorated American soldier of WWI |
| Battle of the Somme | where the BRitish introduced the tank |
| Espionage Act | provided stiff penalties for anyone who furnished information which would aid the enemy, obstruct recruiting, or encourage insubordination in the armed forces |
| Causes for the US to enter the War | 1 unrestricted submarine warfare 2 loss of american lives 3 the Zimmermann note 4 British propaganda 5 close ties to Britain |
| Archduke Franz Ferdinand | assassinated on 6/28/1914, heir to the Austrian throne |
| anarchy | society without a government in control |
| communism | what socialists seek through legislation, regulation and taxation, communists seek through violent revolution |
| Immanuel Kant | German philospher |
| Eddie Rickenbacker | US---he destroyed over 20 enemy planes and several balloons |
| Deism | belief of an impersonal God who, after creating the world, left it to run by natural laws and left man to take care of himself using his intellect |
| Allies | Great Britain France Russia Serbia Belgium Romania Japan Portugal Montenegro Greece Italy |
| Treaty of Versailles | Peace treaty that ended WWI 5yrs to day of F died |
| Henry Cabot Lodge | ambassador to the United Nations |
| revolutionary naturalism | desire to break loose from their established governments and rule themselves based on what they saw as 'natural' boundaries of national origin |
| enlightenment | ideas that led to the world wars began in England during the 17th century and gained momentum in France in the 18th century |
| skeptcism | doubts if any absolute truth |
| reservationists | claimed to be in favor of league of nations is benefited the US |
| flying aces | military aviator: shoot down aircrafts/planes |
| sussex pledge | stopped unrestricted warfare |
| significance of WWI | 1 Set up WWII 2 defined new territories 3 set up modern warfare 4 began the league of nations--United Nations 5 set up cold war |
| total war | every part of the population is involved |
| war guilt clause | clause in Treaty of Versailles that gives blame to Germany |
| race to the sea | French and Germans tried to go around each other to get thwe other from both sides (back and front) |
| Central Powers | *Gemany *Austria-Hungary *Bulgaria *Turkey |
| U-boat | submarine introduced in the war by the Germans |
| dialect thinking | creates a "new fact" |
| reparations | Germany was forced to make repayment plan of money and/or property/equipment because they lost the war |
| Vladimir Lenin | led the Bolsheviks |
| Schenk vs US | limited your freedom of speech war = 'clear and present danger' |
| Argonne Forest | strategic location that gave the American forces protection to capture the german railroad center |
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