chapter 11 vocab
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| Militarism | A devotion to the interests and culture's of one nation.
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| Militarism | The development of armed forces and their use as a tool of diplomacy.
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| Allies | The Triple Entente, consisting of France, Britain, and Russia.
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| Central Powers | Germany and Austria-Hungary, together with the Ottoman Empire - an empire of mostly middle eastern lands controlled by the Turks.
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| Archduke Franz Ferdinand | Heir to the Austrian throne.
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| no man's land | A barren expanse of mud pockmarked with shell craters and filled with barbed wire.
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| trench warfare | In which armies fought for mere yards of ground.
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| Lusitania | Sunk by German U-Boat and brought Americans into the war.
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| Zimmermann note | A telegram from German foreign minister to the German ambassador in Mexico that was intercepted by British agents.
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| Eddie Rickenbacker | Famous fighter pilot of World War I, was a well known race car driver before the war.
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| Selective Service Act | The act required men to register with the government to be randomly selected for military service.
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| Convoy System | In which a heavy guard of destroyers escorted merchant ships back and forth across the Atlantic in groups.
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| American Expeditionary Force | Included men from widely separated parts of the country and led by John J. Pershing.
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| General John J. Pershing | Led the American Expeditionary Force.
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| Alvin York | One of america's greatest war heroes.
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| Conscientious Objector | A person who opposes warfare on moral grounds, pointing out that the bible says, "Thou shall not kill".
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| Armistice | A truce.
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| War industries Board | The main regulatory body.
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| Bernard M. Baruch | Leader of the WIB.
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| Propaganda | A kind of biased communication designed to influence people's thoughts and actions.
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| George Creel | The head of the CPI was a former muckraker journalist.
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| Espionage and Sedition Acts | A person could be fined up to $10,000 and sentenced to 20 years in jail for interfering with the war effort or for saying anything disloyal, profane, or abusive about the government or the war effort.
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| Great Migration | The large-scale movement of hundreds of thousands of southern blacks to cities in the north.
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| Fourteen Points | Speech delivered by Wilson before dress.
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| League of Nations | Would provide a forum for nations to discuss and settle their grievances without having to resort to war.
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| Georges Clemenceau | The french premier that lived through two German invasions of France and was determined to prevent future invasions.
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| David Lloyd George | The British prime minister.
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| Treaty of Versailles | Established nine new nations including Poland , Czechoslovakia, and the kingdom that later became Yugoslavia and shifted the boundaries of other nations.
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| Reparations | War damage.
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| War-Guilt Clause | It forced Germany to admit sole responsibility for starting World War I.
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| Henry Cabot Lodge | Headed conservative senators who were suspicious of the provision for joint economic and military action against aggression, even though it was voluntary.
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