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| Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism |
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| American neutrality and abandonment of neutrality |
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| Major sympathized with the Allies cause -Continued to trade with Britain -Joined the Allies -Sinking of the Lusitanian -Zimmerman letter -Russia became a republican government so now US wasn’t embarrassed by them - |
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| Course of WWI and how/ why U.S. became involved |
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| Started with the original Allied and Central Powers -US joined in after war was declared on them due to trading with Britain |
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| New technologies of warfare |
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| -Submarine warfare, torpedoes -Anti-submarine mines -improved machine guns and higher powered artillery- Mobile weapons; tanks and flamethrowers- chemical weapons: poisonous mustard gas -Planes- Navy advancement: electric light and power, wireless telegraphy, and navigation |
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| State of the U.S. following the war/ impact of the war on American society |
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| -Economic recon version -raging inflation -severe recession |
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| Tried to keep the US neutral during the war and failed; proposed the Fourteen Points |
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| became known as the “Allies” during the war- Britain, France, and Russia |
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| became known as the “Central Powers” during the war- Germany, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Italy (eventually withdrew and joined the Allies) |
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| Germany, Austro-Hungary Empire, and Italy (in the beginning) |
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| Britain, France, and Russia |
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| heir to the throne of Austro-Hungarian Empire who was assassinated on June 28,1914 during a state visit to Sarajevo the capital of Bosnia, a province of Austro-Hungary. Assassin was a Serbian nationalist (Serbia wanted to annex Sarajevo) |
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| - impartial in thought as well as deed, President Wilson declared the US neutral at the beginning of WWI |
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| British passenger liner sunk by a German sub-marine that killed 1,198 people, 128 Americans |
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| Thought up by President Wilson to unite the nation for entering the war; Wanted to keep peace through a permanent league of nations |
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| German Foreign minister who sent a letter to Mexico to ask if they would fight against the US if the Us joined the war so they could gain back land from the US; Letter intercepted by British |
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| American General who helped the allied forces turn back a series of German assaults; wanted to invade Germany at end of War but other Allied force leaders said no |
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| American Expeditionary Force (AEF)- |
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| helped turn away a German assault at Rheims |
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| Americans advanced on Germans in this forest with about one million soldiers |
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| Allowed a draft of about 3 million men into the army |
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| Trenches sheltered soldiers from new war technologies and allowed limited fighting |
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| poison that made troops carry gas masks and allowed fighting without direct combat |
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| German submarines driven by diesel engines |
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| loans to the federal government to cover the war from the citizens |
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| Council of National Defense |
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| established by Wilson composed of members of his cabinet and the civilian Advisory commission to help the economy and war debt |
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| Civilian Advisory Commission |
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| set up local defense councils in every state and locality |
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| an agency created to coordinate government purchases of military supplies |
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| served as the final mediator of labor disputes (worked kind of like a big union) |
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| Committee on Public Information |
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| Set out propaganda to unite people to support the war and controlled what went into newspapers and magazines |
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| a young engineer and business executive that helped a board to handle food in the Council of National Defense |
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| oversaw railroads in the Council of National Defense |
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| Wall Street financier that took over the War Industries Board and made it better and more organized |
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| government able to stop sabotage |
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| gave the government tools to combat spying, sabotage, or obstruction of the war effort |
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| No public expression against the war and no criticizing government or president |
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| principles for which the nation was supposedly fighting; proposals for adjusting postwar boundaries, general principles for governing international conduct, and a “League of Nations” |
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| Created at the Paris Peace Conference to oversee world affairs and prevent future wars |
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| When Leaders of the Allied and Central powers met to negotiate and talk peace |
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| Treaty decided upon at the Paris Peace conference that established the League of Nations |
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| Prime minister of Great Britain |
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| Didn’t like the President and tried to stop the Treaty of Versailles; a Senator |
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| - a communist government in Russia |
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| African Americans, after serving in the war, moved from the rural south to industrial cities in search of factory jobs created by the war |
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| radical bombings by communist enthusiasts where the government set laws imposing harsh penalties on those who promoted revolution |
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| an attorney that set raids and arrested more than 6000 people for radical behavior and although many were released, about 500 non-Americans were deported |
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| - Italian immigrants who were charged with murder of a paymaster in Braintree and were sentenced to death; were both confessed anarchists so even though the case against them was weak they still be found guilty |
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| Next president who started a “new era” |
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