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Chapter 10
Term | Definition |
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Alsace-Lorraine | the territory they lost during that conflict. |
militarism | glorification of the military. |
Western Font | battle front between the Allies and Central Powers in western Europe during World War 1. |
casualty | soldiers killed, wounded, and missing. |
contraband | supplies captured from an enemy during wartime. |
U-boat | German Submarine |
Luistania | British passenger liner sunk by a German U-Boat during World War 1. |
Zimmermann note | telegram written by Zimmermann proposing an alliance between Germany and Mexico against the U.S. during World War 1. |
Selective Service Act | act passed by Congress in 1917 authorizing a draft of men for military service. |
CPI | |
conscientious objector | |
Espionage Act | |
Great Migration | |
convoy | |
Fourteen Points | |
self-determination | |
League of Nations | world organization established after World War 1 to promote peaceful cooperation between countries. |
Reparations | payment for war damages. |
"irreconcilables" | isolationist senators who opposed any treaty ending World War 1 that had a League of Nations folded into it. |
"reservationists" | a group of senators led by Henry Cabot Lodge who opposed the Treaty of Versailles. |
influenza | flu virus |
inflation | rising prices |
Red Scare | fear that communist were working to destroy the American way of life. |
Palmer raids | the series of raids in the early 1920s initiated by Attorney General A. Muitchell Palmer |
creditor nation | country is owed more money by other countries than it owes other countries. |