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ch 12 valles prt 2
ch 12 voc.2
Question | Answer |
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Zimmerman Note | telegram from Germany to Mexico, proposing an alliance between the two countries |
Selective Service Act | law that required men 21-30 to register for the draft, how the US raised the armies numbers |
John J. Pershing | leader of the American Expeditionary Force |
Lusitania | British vessel, sunk by German U-boats killing Americans & leading to US entry to WWI |
Unrestricted submarine warfare | practiced by German U-boats during WWI, factor that brought the US into WWI |
American Expeditionary Force | name of US soldiers sent to fight in WWI |
War Industries Board | agency led by Bernard Baruch that allocated scarce goods, and controlled production during WWI |
Great Migration | mass migration of African-American north during WWI, seeking vacant factory jobs |
Espionage Act | federal law that outlawed treason during WWI |
Reparations | payments for damges caused by war, Germany was forced to pay post WWI |
Bolsheviks | radical Russians who siezed power from the Czar in 1917 |
Fourteen Points | President Wilson's plan after WWI, to avoid future conflicts |
League of Nations | international body created by Wilson's Fourteen Points to prevent wars |
Treaty of Versailles | agreement that ended WWI, and forced Germany to accept blame and pay reparations |