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Chapter 24
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History
8th Grade
05/15/2012

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Woodrow Wilson
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Democratic president during WWI, first believed in neutrality, but later joined the war. Created The Fourteen Points
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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Austrian-Hungarian assassinated by a Serb in Sarajevo. His wife Sophie was killed as well.
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Arthur Zimmerman
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German foreign minister, created the Zimmerman telegraph
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John J.Pershing
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General of the AEF(American Expeditionary Force)
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Alvin York
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Quaker who was drafted, did not want to fight, but did and took 132 Central Powers men captive.
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Eddie Rickenbacker
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ace aviator(U.S) shot down 26 enemy planes. Awarded the Medal of Honor
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Kaiser Wilhelm II
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German leader during WWI- militarist, resigns(last of German royalty)
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Paul Von Hindenburg
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Commander in Chief of the German Army
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Baron(Manfred) Von Richthofen
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ace aviator(Germany)was shot down. aka the Red Baron
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Ferdinand Foch
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French Army leader, Spring Offensive: head of the Allied nations' armies
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Georges Clemenceau
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French prime minister, believed the Germans should pay
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Czar Nicholas II
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stepped down to communist group.
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Vladimir Lenin
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head of the Bolsheviks (communist)Signed treaty with Germany and withdrew from the war
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Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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decided the Schenk vs. United States case
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Henry Cabot Lodge
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Republican, isolationist, anti-League of Nations
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A. Mitchell Palmer
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U.S. attorney general, took action on suspected anarchists. Ordered by the President.
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Warren G. Harding
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won 1920 election, isolationist, 'return to normalcy'
Candidate during the first election with women's suffrage.
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