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| the belief that a nation needs a large military force because the larger your military is, the less likely other countries will want to attack you |
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| European countries made secret treaties to protect and help each other in case anything bad, like a war, ever happened |
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| a message sent to Mexico by Germany offering help reclaiming the lost Mexican territories of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona if Mexico joined the Great War |
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| act passed by Congress that required all males between 21 and 30 to sign up for military service |
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| low interest loans by civillans to the government meant to be repaid in a number of years |
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| products such as posters, pamphlets, and movies that express opinions of writers, artists, photographers, and filmakers to influence the actions of others |
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| Espoinage and Sedition Acts |
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| laws that made it to criticize the US government during the Great War |
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| the 1919-1920 American fear of a communist revolution after severl radical labor strikes |
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| raids of atleast 6,000 suspected radicals` homes and headquaters without search warrants |
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| the movemnet of about 500,000 African Americans from the South to industrial Northern cities between 1910 and 1920 |
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| President Woodrow Wilson`s goals for peace in the Great War and after which included smaller military forces, an end to secret treaties, freedom of the seas, free trade, and the League of Nations |
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| an international organization designed to settle conflicts through negoiation. Many americans opposed joining the league because the US would then be required to guarantee the freedom of other nations |
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| money a defeated nation pays for the destruction caused by a war |
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| peace treaty negotiated by Great Britain, France, American, and Italy that officaly ended the Great War. Germany was forced to accept full blame for the War, give up all of its colonies, maintain a minimal military, and pay $33 billion in reparations |
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| political movement that preaches an extree form of patriotism and nationalism often linked to racism that oppresses eople who dissnet |
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| National Socialist German Workers Party led by Adolf Hitler that gained power in the earl 1930s by preaching German racial superiority and revenge for defeat in the Great War |
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