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Vocabulary
Chapter 10
Question | Answer |
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1. Alsace-Lorraine | when France took some German states, territory that was lost by france |
2. militarism | glorification of the military |
3. Western Front | battle front between ally and central powers during world war 1 |
4. casualty | men in battle who have dies, been wounded, or went missing |
5. contraband | supplies captured by the enemy during wartime |
6. U-boat | German submarine, good for sneak attacks |
7. Lusitania | British passenger liner that was sunk by German u-boat |
8. Zimmerman Note | telegram written by George Zimmerman in German to Mexico trying to form an alliance and attack the US |
9. Selective Service Act | act passed by congress in 1917 that allowed men to be drafted for the military |
10. CPI | government agency that encourages Americans to support the war |
11. George Creel | director of the CPI appointed by Wilson had a campaign to "sell America" |
12. Conscientious Objector | a person whose moral or religious beliefs get in the way of them fighting in the war |
13. Espionage Act | enacted severe penalties to any person who is disloyal |
14. Great Migration | movement for African American moving from the south to the industrial north |
15. Convoy | group of merchant ships protected by war ships |
16. fourteen points | list of terms for resolving world wars or any other war drafted by Woodrow Wilson |
17. Self-determination | right of people to make their own government |
18. League of nations | world organization after WW1 the promoted peaceful resolutions to world problems |
19. reparations | payment for war damages |
20. irreconcilables | isolationists who opposed any treaty ending the war with the league of notions in it |
21. reservationists | group of senators that opposed the treaty of Versailles ending the war without certain changes being made |
22. influenza | flu virus |
23. Inflation | rising prices |
24. Palmer Raids | raids against communists |
25. Creditor Nation | a country that is owed more money then it has to pay other countries |
26. Red Scare | fear the communists were going to ruin the American way of life |