Terms from world war 1- chapter 11
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| 746923919 | Lusitania | British passenger ship sunk by a German U-Boat - 1200 people died including 128 Americans | |
| 746923920 | Sussex Pledge | After the Lusitania sunk Woodrow Wilson threatens to end diplomatic relations with Germany, than Germany promises not to sink more merchant vessels without warning | |
| 746923921 | Zimmerman Note | German telegram sent to Mexico proposing an alliance- stated that Germany would help Mexico reconquer the lose territory of New Mexico | |
| 746923922 | Selective Service Act | Required men 21-30 to register to be drafted into the armed services | |
| 746923923 | Fourteen Points | Wilsons ideals after war, freedom of ships on the seas, smaller armies, end of secret agreements between nations | |
| 746923924 | Liberty Bonds | Money from the sale of these provided loans to the Allies to buy food and war supplies | |
| 746923925 | Armistice | Truce that ended the war- 11th hour, 11th day, 11th month of 1918(Veterans Day) | |
| 746923926 | Wilhelm II | German leader who thought Germany could get though Belgium to get to France before Russia could mobilize their troops and the war would be over in 6 months | |
| 746923927 | Allies | Britain, France, and Russia- Later joined by Italy | |
| 746923928 | # of Nations that fought in WWI | 30 | |
| 746923929 | Mobilize | To prepare military for war | |
| 746923930 | Schlieffen Plan | Germanys plan for a fast attack on France then an attack on Russia(Belgium slowed them down) | |
| 746923931 | First Battle of the Marne | German army was 25 miles out of Paris, the French stopped Germany at the Marne River east of Paris. Germany retreated | |
| 746923932 | Triple Entente | France, Britain, Russia's alliance | |
| 746923933 | No-man's land | Area between opposing trenches | |
| 746923934 | U-boats | submarines, were the worlds largest and most advanced, causing heavy losses to Allied shipping | |
| 746923935 | Stalemate | neither side can win a clear victory | |
| 746923936 | 3 new weapons used to fight in the trenches | Airplanes, poison gas, machine guns, and tanks | |
| 746923937 | Propaganda | posters created to encourage Americans to support the war | |
| 746923938 | causes of political tension in Europe | nationalism, militarism, the triple alliance, the triple entente | |
| 746923939 | Nationalism | belief that a specific nations language or culture is superior to all others | |
| 746923940 | Treaty of Versailles | Final peace settlement of world war I (included some of 14 points) | |
| 746923941 | Dough Boys | American foot soldiers | |
| 746923942 | Victory Garden | a kitchen garden planted during wartime to relieve food shortages | |
| 746923943 | Franz Ferdinand | heir to throne in Austria who was assassinated by a Serb nation alisted(started war) | |
| 746923944 | Central Powers | Austria-Hungray, Germany, joined later by Bulgaria and Ottoman Empire | |
| 746923945 | Second Battle of the Marne | both sides suffered heavy casualities, Germans losses destroyed their ability to attack againS | |
| 746923946 | George Creel | Ran the commitee on public information(CPI) | |
| 746923947 | Nicholas II | Russian czar who hesitated to mobilize troops after Austria-Hungray declared war on Serbia(bcaz of the assassignation of Ferdinand) | |
| 746923948 | Treaty of Brest- Livtovsk | Peace treaty to keep Russia out of the war | |
| 746923949 | Triple Alliance | Germany, Austria-Hungray alliance later joined by Italy | |
| 746923950 | League of Nations | congress of nations formed to settle international disputes and maintain peace | |
| 746923951 | Trench Warfare | French + German armies built protective ditches- they dug simple holes or complex networks with rooms for sleeping and eating | |
| 746923952 | militarism | the building up of military forces or strong influence of military values on a society | |
| 746923953 | balance of power | a situation in which the strength of rival alliances is nearly equal | |
| 746923954 | Arthur Zimmerman | the German forgeign secretary who proposed an alliance between Germany and Mexico againist the United States | |
| 746923955 | CPI- Committee on Public Information | agency to help raise public support for the war effort | |
| 746923956 | Sedition Act of 1918 | made it illegal for Americans to speak disloyally about the U.S. goverment | |
| 746923957 | War Industries Board(WIB) | created by Wilson to oversee the production and distribution of goods made by the country's war industries | |
| 746923958 | National War Labor Board | created by Wilson that worked to settle disputes between workers and management and to prevent strikes | |
| 746923959 | American Expeditionary Force(AEF) | commanded by Pershing-included a large force of volunteers and draftees as well as soldiers from the regular army and the National Guard | |
| 746923960 | Communists | people who seek the equal distribution of wealth and an end to all forms of private property | |
| 746923961 | an armistance | a truce | |
| 746923962 | self-determination | the right of people to decide their own political status | |
| 746923963 | Reparations | payments for damages and expenses caused by the war | |
| 746923964 | Western Front | In WWI, the region of Northern France where the forces of the Allies and the Central Powers battled each other | |
| 746923965 | Woodrow Wilson | 28th President of the United States | |
| 746923966 | David Lloyd George | British prime minster-main concern was keeping the British empire together and protecting it's interests | |
| 746923967 | Georges Clemenceau | French premier-wanted to punish Germany so severely that it could never hurt France again | |
| 746923968 | Vittorio Orlando | Italian prime minster- wanted Italy to recieve land it had been promised when it entered the war on the allied side | |
| 746923969 | Nicolai Lenin | Russian leader of the Bolsheviks, made treaty of Brest-Litovsk | |
| 746923970 | Alexander Kerensky | took control of nation, tried to keep Russia in war while implementing democratic reforms |
