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WWI 2: America
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9th Grade
11/06/2010

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John J. Pershing
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general of the 1st small force to Europe, served mainly to boost morale
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Selective Service Act
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authorizes a draft of young men for the military service
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American Expeditionary Forces
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the army made of volunteers and national guardsmens
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Conscientious Objectors
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drafted men who refused to fight for religious reasons, claimed they objected fighting as a matter of conscience, sevred noncombant positions
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Doughboys
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members of AEF
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Harlem HELL Fighters
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African American fighter group who aided France, awarded the Croix de Guerre
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Vladmir Lenin and Bolsheviks
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leader and his followers who overthrew the Russian government
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Armistice
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cease-fire, signed on what became Vet's day
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Influenze Epidemic
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came from Kansas, swept across Europe and eventually worldwide, killing millions in the final months of the war and after
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Armenian Genocide
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Ottoman empire organized killings of Armenian civilians, contiuned into the 20s
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Liberty Loans
Definition
specail war bonds to support the Allied cause
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"Four Minute Men"

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people who gave speeches before events to tell people to buy liberty bonds
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War Industries Board
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oversaw the nation's war-related production
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Comittee of Public Information
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controlled media to make sure the Americans had a positive view of the war
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Huns
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Germans, who were hated by Americans
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Espoinage Act
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made it illegal to interfere with the draft
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Sedition Act
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made it illegal to obstruct the sale of Liberty Bonds or to discuss anything disloyal or abusive about the American Government or the army
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Great Migration
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African Americans who left the South to work in Northern factories, became a flood of people during the war
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