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| France, Britain, Serbia, and eventually America |
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| Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkish Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria, and Romania |
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| What is "strict accountability"? |
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| In February 1915, President Wilson warned the Germans that he would hold them to "strict accountability" for any loss of American lives or property resulting from their submarine warfare and its violation of neutral rights at sea. |
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| Who sunk the Lusitania in May 1915? |
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| What is the "Sussex Pledge"? |
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| effectively represented the suspension of the "intensified" U-boat campaign |
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| Who was in the election of 1916? |
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| Woodrow Wilson (D) and Charles Evan Hughes (R) |
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| Who's campaign approach was "He kept us out of war"? |
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| What is "Peace without victory"? |
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| Advocated by Woodrow Wilson in attempt to stop bloodshed. Wilson wanted the nations to stop fighting with no one side being the victor. |
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| What is Unrestricted Submarine Warfare, Feb. 1, 1917? |
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| A type of naval warfare in which submarines sink merchant ships without warning |
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| What is the Zimmermann Telegram? |
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| was a 1917 diplomatic proposal from the German Empire to Mexico to make war against the United States. The proposal was intercepted and decoded by British intelligence. Revelation of the contents outraged American public opinion and helped generate support for the United States declaration of war on Germany in April. |
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| What is the fourteen point plan? |
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| The points encompassed war aims as forwarded by Wilson, and a general guideline for a post-war order and frontiers. The address was intended to assure the country, and the world, that the Great War was being fought for a moral cause and for postwar peace in Europe. |
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| What is the League of nations? |
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| An intergovernmental organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. |
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| What is the Armistice, November 11, 1918 |
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| Agreement that ended the fighting in WWI |
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| What is the Paris Peace Conference, 1919-1920? |
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| The meeting of the Allied victors following the end of World War I to set the peace terms for the defeated Central Powers following the armistices of 1918. |
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| Who is Henry Cabot Lodge? |
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| Wanted to enter World War I, Attacked Wilson as a president calling him idealistic and bashing the 14 points plan, fought against entering the League of Nations |
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| What is the Treaty of Versailles, 1919 |
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| one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers |
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| The Big Four were the leaders of the Versailles peace negotiations in 1919. They consisted of David Lloyd George of Great Britain, Georges Clemenceau of France, Vittorio Orlando of Italy, and Woodrow Wilson of the United States. |
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