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Chapter 10
35 words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alsace-Lorraine | French territory lost to the Germans in 1871 |
| militarism | glorification of the military |
| Francis Ferdinand | heir to the Austria-Hungary throne who was assasinated by a Bosnian who believed Bosnia belonged to Serbia and thought of Francis as a tyrant |
| William II | German emperor who assured Austia-Hungray it would be its ally if war came |
| Western Front | battle between the Allies and Central Powers in western Europe in WWI |
| casualty | soldiers wounded,killed, or missing |
| contraband | supplies captured from an enemy during wartime |
| U-boat | German submarine |
| Litusania | British passenger liner sunk by a German U-boat during WWI |
| Zimmerman Note | German telegram by Minister Zimmerman proposing an alliance between Germany and Mexico against the United States during WWI |
| Selective Service | act passed in 1917 authorixing a draft of men for military service |
| Bernard Baruch | head of the War Industries Board and an influential Wall Street investment broker who reported directly to the president |
| CPI | Committee on Public Information-government agency created druing WWIto encourage Americans to support the war |
| George Creel | director of the CPI, former journalist,and admirer of American institutions. He combined education and a widespread advertising campaign to "sell America" |
| consientious objector | people whose moral or religious beliefs fobid them to fight |
| Espionage Act | 1917 act passed by Congress allowing postal authorities to ban treasonable or seditious newspapers, magazines, or printed materials from the mail |
| Great Migration | movement of African Americans in the 20th century from the rural South to the industrial North |
| convoy | group of merchant ships sailing together,protected by war ships |
| Vladmir Lenin | radical communist that staged a revolution and gained control of Russia |
| Fourteen Points | list of terms for resolving WWI and future wars outlined by American President Woodrow Wilson |
| self-determination | the right of people to choose their own form of government |
| League of Nations | world organization established after WWIto promote peaceful cooperation between countries |
| Henry Cabot Lodge | Republican Senator who was a foreign policy expert that was left behind and disliked by Wilson |
| reparations | payment for war damages |
| "irreconcilables" | isolationst senators who opposed any treaty ending WWI that had a League of Nations folded into it |
| "reservationists" | a group of senators, led by Henry Cabot Lodge who oppposed the Treaty of Versailles to end WWI,unless specific changes were included |
| John J.Pershing | commander of American forces in Europe, that arrived with a small American force in France in 1917 |
| influenza | flu virus |
| inflation | rising prices |
| Red Scare | fear that communists were working to destroy the American way of life |
| Palmer Raids | the series of raids in the early 1920s initiated by Attorney General A.Mitchell Palmer, against suspected radicals and communists |
| Nicola Sacco | Italian immigrants known as anarchist.Were charged with shooting and killing two men during a holdup at a shoe factory in a town near Boston because eyewitnesses said robbers looked Italian.Found guilty even if there was little evidence against them. |
| Bartolomeo Vanzetti | Same as Nicola Sacco. |
| Warren G. Harding | Republican candidate who wanted "normalcy"-time before Wilson's idealism. |
| creditor nation | country which is owed more money by other countries than it owes other counties |
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