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History chapter 23
lesson 3
Question | Answer |
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American Expeditionary Force | US troops that the french ad British wanted on their side (AEF) |
General John J. Pershing | leader of AEF that wanted his soldiers trained before battle |
Bolsheviks | overthrew the Russian government and sized powers / Russia quit the war |
Communists | people who favor the equal distribution of wealth and the end of all forms of private property |
Vladimir Lenin | led the Bolsheviks that are communists |
Treaty of Breast-Litovsk | Russia sighed this to make a peace agreement with the central powers |
Belleau Wood | allies launched attacks that gradually moved that Germans back |
Saint-Mihiel | a;lied attacked and defeated Germans on the border of France and Germany in September 1918 |
Alvin York | killed 25 German gunners and captured 132 prisoners, won a metal of honor |
Harlem Helfighters | African American Fighters of the 369th spent more time in combat than any other American unit |
Croix de Fuerne | cross of war metal awarded to the Harlem Helfighters |
Convoy System | system to protect allied ships |
1918 | Bulgaria and ottoman empire quit war |
November 3, 1918 | Austria-hungry reached a peace agreement with France on |
Kaiser Wilhelm II | German leader gave up his throne seeing he had been beaten and fled to the Netherlands |
Armistice | truce, went into effect on the 11th hour of the 11th day on the 11th month on 1918 |