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Chapter 10 Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Alsace-Lorraone | territory lost during the conflict |
militarism | glorifiaction of the military |
Western Front | battle front between the allies and central power in western Europe during WW1 |
casualty | soldiers killed, wounded, and missing |
contraband | supplies captured from enemy during wartime |
U-boat | German submarine |
Lusitania | British passenger liner sunk by a German U-boat during WW1 |
Zimmermann note | written by zimmerman proposing an alliance between German and Mexico against the U.S. during WW1 |
Selective Service Act | authorizing a draft of men for military service |
CPI | government agency to encourage Americans to support the war |
conscientious objector | person who moral or forbid to fight in wars |
Espionage Act | enacting severe penalties for anyone engaged in disloyal or treasonable activities |
Great Migration | movement of African Americans from the rural south to the industrial north |
convoy | group of merchant ships sailing together, protected by war ships |
Fourteen Points | list of terms resolving WW1 |
self-determination | the right of people to choose their own form of government |
League of Nations | world organization to promote peaceful cooperation between the countries |
reparations | process which Mexican American were encouraged to return to Mexico |
irreconcilables | isolationist senators who opposed any treaty ending WW1 |
reservationists | group of senators, led by Henry, who opposed the treaty of versailles to end WW1 |
influenza | flu virus |
inflation | rising price |
Red Scare | fear that communist were working to destroy the American way of life |
Palmer Raids | the series of raids in the early 1920s |
creditor nation | country which is owed more money by others countries than it owes other countries |