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Ch10 Vocab
Question | Answer |
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1.Alsace-Lorraine | the territory France lost to Germany |
2.militarism | glorification of the military |
3.Francis Ferdinand | archduke who was heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary who was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip |
4.William II | German emperor |
5.Western Front | battle front between the Allies and Central Powers in western Europe during WWI |
6.casualty | soliders killed, wounded, and missing |
7.contraband | supplies captured from an enemy during wartime |
8.U-Boat | German submarine |
9.Lusitania | British passenger liner sunk by a German U-Boat during WWI |
10.Zimmerman note | telegram written by German Foreign Minister Zimmerman proposing an alliance between Germany and Mexico against the U.S. |
11.Selective Service Act | act passed by Congress in 1917 authorizing a draft of men for military service |
12.Bernard Baruch | an influential Wall Street investment broker who reported directly to the president |
13.CPI | "Committee on Public Information" government agency created to encourage Americans to support the war |
14.George Creel | director of the CPI who was a former journalist and a passionate admirer of American institutions |
15.conscientious objector | person whose moral or religious beliefs forbid him or her to fight in wars |
16.Espionage Act | act passed by Congress in 1917 enacting severe penalties for anyone engaged in disloyal or treasonable activities |
17.Great Migration | movement of African Americans in the twentieth century from the rural South to the industrial North |
18.convoy | group of merchant ships sailing together, protected by war ships |
19.Vladimir Lenin | lead radical communists to stage a revolution and gained control of Russia |
20.John J. Pershing | the commander of American forces in Europe |
21.Fourteen Points | list of terms for resolving WWI and future wars outlined by President Woodrow Wilson |
22.self-determination | the right of people to choose their own form of government |
23.League of Nations | world organization established after WWI to promote peaceful cooperation between countries |
24.Henry Cabot Lodge | a Republican foreign policy expert |
25.reparations | payment for war damages |
26."irreconcilables" | isolationist senators who opposed any treaty ending WWI that had a League of Nations folded into it |
27."reservationists" | a group of Senators,led by Henry Cabot Lodge, who opposed the Treaty of Versailles to end WWI, unless specific changes were included |
28.influenza | flu virus |
29.inflation | rising prices |
30.Red Scare | fear that communists were working to destroy the American way of life |
31.Palmer Raids | the series of raids in the early 1920s initiated by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, against suspected radicals and communists |
31.Nicola Sacco | Italian anarchist who (along with Vanzetti) was charged with shooting and killing 2 men during a holdup at a shoe factory in a town near Boston |
32.Bartolomeo Vanzetti | Italian anarchist who (along with Sacco) was charged with shooting and killing 2 men during a holdup at a shoe factory in a town near Boston |
33.Warren G.Harding | campaigned for a rejection of Wilsonian idealism |
34.creditor nation | country which is owed more money by other countries than it owes other countries |