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WWI
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Social Studies
10th Grade
11/08/2012

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Allied Powers (Triple Entente)
Definition
France, Great Britain, and Russia
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Central Powers (Triple Alliance)
Definition
Germany, the Ottoman Empire, and Austria Hungary
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Committee on Public Information
Definition
Headed by George Creel. Nation's first propaganda agency.
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George Creel
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Headed the Committee on Public Information
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Schenck vs. US
Definition
important supreme court case that ruled that there could be limitations on free speech during wartime if that speech presented "clear and present danger"
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MAIN causes
Definition
Militarism Alliance system Imperialism Nationalism
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Archduke Franz Ferdinad
Definition
Assassinated by Serbian Nationalist
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Gavrilo Princip
Definition
Serbian Nationalist who assassinated the Archduke of Austria Hungary
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Kaiser William II
Definition
Led Germany into invading Belgium
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Woodrow Wilson
Definition
used the slogan "he kept us out of war" in the election of 1916
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Isolationists
Definition
Wanted the US to stay out of war
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Luisitania
Definition
US passenger ship sunk by a German US. Caused us to enter the war.
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Zimmerman Telegram
Definition
Intercepted by the British, proposed an alliance between Germany and Mexico.
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League of Nations
Definition
Peace organization that Wilson came up with, not successful because US didn't support it.
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Reservationists
Definition
Wanted to reserve the nation
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Selective Service Act
Definition
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Herbert Hoover
Definition
Headed Food Administration
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Bernard Baruch
Definition
Headed the War Industries Bard
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A. Mitchell Palmer
Definition
Set up an agency to arrest communists, socialists, and anarchists shortly after WWI
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Sacco and Vanzetti
Definition
Admitted anarchists but convicted and executed for crimes not committed.
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Espionage and Sedition Acts
Definition
passed to punish those who didn't support the war.
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Dawes Plan
Definition
plan for repaying war reparations
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John J. Pershing
Definition
Led the American Expeditionary Force
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New Weapons
Definition
tanks, airplanes, machine guns, poison gas
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Armistice
Definition
ended the war
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Peace without victory
Definition
Woodrow wanted
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Georges Glemenceau
Definition
France's rep
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David Lloyd George
Definition
Great Britain's rep
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Treaty of Versailles
Definition
Stated Germany had to pay for the war
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Emergency Quota Act
Definition
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