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Chp11Vocab_Ernst

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Nationalism   A devotion to the interests and culture of one's nation  
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Militarism   the policy of building up armed forces in aggressive preparedness for war and their use as a tool of diplomacy  
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Allies   group of nations originally consisting of Great Britain, France, and Russia and later joined by the United States.  
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Central Power   group of nations led by Germany, Austria-Hungry, and the Ottoman Empire that opposed the Allies in World War I.  
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand   heir to the Austria throne  
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No Man's Land   an unoccupied region between opposing armies.  
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Trench Warfare   military operations in which the opposing forces attack and counterattack from systems of fortified ditches rather than on an opened battlefied  
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Lusitania   a British passenger ship that was sunk by a German U-boats in 1915  
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Zimmermann 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 United States entered WWI.  
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Eddie Rickenbacker   famous fighter pilot of World War I.  
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Selective Service Act   a law, enacted in 1917, that required men to register for military service  
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Convoy System   the protection of merchant ships form U-boat-German submarine-attacks by having the ships travel in large groups escorted by warships.  
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American Expeditionary Force   the U.S. Force , led by General John Pershing, who fought with the Allies in Europe during WWI.  
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General John J. Pershing   the leader of the American Expeditionary Force  
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Alvin York   America's Greatest War Heroes  
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Conscientious Objector   a person who refuses, on moral grounds, to participate in warfare  
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Armistice   a truce, or agreement to end an armed conflict  
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War Industries Board   an agency established during WWI to increase efficiency and discourage waste in war-related industries  
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Bernard M. Baruch   a prosperous businessman  
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Propaganda   a kind of biased communication designed to influence people's thoughts and actions  
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George Creel   a former muckraking journalist  
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Espionage and Sedition Acts   two laws, enacted in 1917, and 1918, that imposed harsh penalties on anyone interfering with or speaking against U.S. participation in WWI.  
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Great Migration   the large-scale movement of African Americans from the South to Northern Cities in the early 20th Century  
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Fourteen Points   the principles making up President Woodrow Wilson's plan for world peace following WWI.  
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League of Nations   an association of nations established in 1920 to promote international cooperation and peace.  
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Georges Clemenceau   a french premier, had lived through two german invasions of france  
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David Lloyd George   the british prime minister  
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Treaty of Versailles   the 1919 peace treaty at the end of World War I which established new nations, borders, and war reparations.  
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Reparations   the compensation paid by a defeated nation for the damage or injury it inflicted during a war.  
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War-Guilt Clause   a provision in the Treaty of Versailles by which Germany acknowledge that it alone was responsible for World War I.  
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Henry Cabot Lodge   Conservative senators, were suspicious of the provision for joint economic and military action against aggression.  
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