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11th Grade
03/02/2011

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"Make the world safe for a better democracy"
Definition

>Quote from President Woodrow Wilson

>Woman's suffrage and WWI

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Alliances
Definition
>An organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty
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Allies
Definition
>People, groups, or nations that have joined together in an association for mutual benefit or to achieve some common purpose
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Archduke Francis Ferdinand
Definition

>Archduke of Austria-Este

>From 1889 until his death, he was heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne

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Central Powers
Definition

>World War I

>The alliance of Germany and Austria-Hungary and other nations allied with them in opposing the Allies

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Contraband
Definition
>Goods whose importation or exportation or possession is prohibited by law
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Election of 1916
Definition
>Took place while Europe was embroiled in World War I
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HMS Lusitania
Definition
>Ship that was blew up and was one of the causes leading up to WWI
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Idealism
Definition
>Impracticality by virtue of thinking of things in their ideal form rather than as they really are
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Isolationists
Definition

>Label given to America's nineteenth-century foreign policy

>It was based on President Washington's warning not to form alliances or become politically entangled with European nations in peacetime

>Announced as policy in the Monroe Doctrine of 1823

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Jeanette Rankin
Definition

>First woman to be elected to the United States House of Representatives

>First female member of the Congress sometimes referred to as the Lady of the House

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Kaiser Wilhelm II
Definition
>Was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia, ruling both the German Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia from June 15th 1888 to November 19th 1918
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Militarism
Definition
>A political orientation of a people or a government to maintain a strong military force and to be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests
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Mobilization
Definition
>Act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency
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Nationalism
Definition
>The aspiration for national independence felt by people under foreign domination
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Selective Service Act
Definition
>Specifically choosing who would be drafted and put into the military line
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Serbia
Definition
>A country in southeastern Europe
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U-Boat submarine warfare
Definition
>Being able to shoot at Americans or any other country without fair warning
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Woodrow Wilson
Definition

>28th President of the United States

>Led the United States in World War I

>Secured the formation of the League of Nations

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Zimmermann Telegram
Definition

>Coded telegram dispatched by the Foreign Secretary of the German Empire

>Arthur Zimmermann

>January 16, 1917

> Sent to the German ambassador in Washington, Johann von Bernstorff

>At the height of World War I

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"No Man's Land"
Definition
>An unoccupied area between the front lines of opposing armies
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"Peace Without Victory"
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"The Big Four"
Definition

>The top Allied leaders who met at the Paris Peace Conference in January 1919, following the end of World War I (1914–18)

>Itlay, Britian, France, And The US

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American Expeditionary Force
Definition
>United States Armed Forces sent to Europe in World War I
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Armistice
Definition
>A state of peace agreed to between opponents so they can discuss peace terms
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Doughboys

 

Definition
>Obsolete slang term for a United States Army infantryman
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Fourteen Points

(1-5, 14)

Definition

1. An end to all secret agreements

2. Freedom of all the seas in peace and war

3. Reduction of trade barriers

4. General reduction of armaments

5. Adjustment of colonial claims

14. League of Nations

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Henry Cabot Lodge
Definition
>Republican U.S. Representative and Senator who argued against the League of Nations in 1919
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John J. Pershing
Definition
>General officer in the United States Army
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League of Nations
Definition

>International organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations

>Suggested by Woodrow Wilson

> US never joined and it remained powerless

>Was dissolved in 1946 after the United Nations was formed

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Mustard/Chlorine Gas
Definition
>A toxic war gas with sulfide based compounds that raises blisters and attacks the eyes and lungs
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Russian and Bolshevik Revolutions
Definition
>Communists
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Treaty of Versailles
Definition
>Treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans
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Trench Warfare
Definition
>Type of armed combat in which the opposing troops fight from trenches that face each other
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18th Amendment
Definition
>Banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol
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19th Amendment
Definition
>WOMEN CAN VOTE, WOO HOOO!!! (:
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A. Mitchell Palmer
Definition
>Attorney General of the United States from 1919 to 1921
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Anti-Immigration Sentiment
Definition
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Bernard Baruch
Definition

>American financier, stock-market speculator, statesman, and political consultant.

>Devoted his time toward advising U.S. Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt on economic matters

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Committee on Public Information
Definition
>Independent agency of the government of the United States created to influence U.S. public opinion regarding American participation in World War I
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Dawes Plan
Definition
>Attempt following World War I for the Triple Entente to collect war reparations debt from Germany
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Espionage and Sedition Acts
Definition
US federal law passed on June 15, 1917, shortly after the U.S. entry into World war I. It prohibited any attempt to interfere with military operations, to support U.S. enemies during wartime, to promote insubordination in the military, or to interfere with military recruitment
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Eugene V. Debs
Definition
>United States labor organizer who ran for President as a socialist
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Food Administration
Definition
>Created by the Lever Act of 1917 and had the authority to control prices, license distributors, negotiate prices, oversee exports, and tell farmers to grow more crops
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George Creel
Definition
>Investigative journalist, a politician, and, most famously, the head of the United States Committee on Public Information
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Herbert Hoover
Definition

>31st President of the United States

>1929 the stock market crashed and the economy collapsed and Hoover was defeated for reelection by Franklin Roosevelt

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Industrial Workers of the World
Definition

>Former international labor union and radical labor movement in the United States

>Founded in Chicago in 1905 and dedicated to the overthrow of capitalism

>Its membership declined after World War I

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John L. Lewis (United Mine Workers)
Definition

>Leader of the United Mine Workers

>United Mine Workers- an industrial union of mine workers in North America

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Ku Klux Klan
Definition
>Name of several past and present far right hate groups in the United States whose avowed purpose is to protect the rights and further the interests of White Americans of Protestant faith by violence and intimidation
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Palmer Raids
Definition
>Attempts by the United States Department of Justice to arrest and deport left-wing radicals, especially anarchists, from the United States
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Sacco and Vanzetti
Definition
>Italian immigrants who were accused and convicted of murdering two men during a 1920 armed robbery in Massachusetts
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Schenck V. US (1919)
Definition
>United States Supreme Court decision that upheld the Espionage Act of 1917 and concluded that a defendant did not have a First Amendment right to free speech against the draft during World War I
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Self Determination
Definition
>The freedom of the people of a given territory or national grouping to determine their own political status and how they will be governed without undue influence from any other country
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the first Red Scare
Definition

>1917-1920

>Strong anti-communism

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War Industries Board
Definition
>United States government agency established on July 28, 1917, during World War I, to coordinate the purchase of war supplies
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Washington Naval Conference
Definition
>Military conference called by the administration of President Warren G. Harding and held in Washington, D.C. from 12 November 1921 to 6 February 1922
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