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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 no man's land | in war, land not controlled by either side and filled with barbed wire, land mines, or bombs buried in the ground |
| communism | a political and economic system in which all industries, land, and business are owned by the government |
| convoy | powerful warships sent to protect. It made atlantic much safer |
| war bond | a paper showing that the buyer had loaned a certain amount of $$$ to the government, and the govt. pay back |
| armistice | an agreement to stop fighting a war |
| militarism | the idea that using military forces is a good way to solve problems |
| imperialism | building an empire |
| nationalism | having strong feelings for ones country -patriotic |
| alliance | a formal agreement |
| ally | a partner in an alliance |
| dollar diplomacy | a policy in which the U.S. government gave money to other nations in return for some U.S. control over the actions of those nations |
| neutral | not taking a side in a conflict |
| military draft | a way of making the people of a nation join the armed forces |
| prediction | a decision about what might happen next, based on the way things are |
| propaganda | information designed to help or hurt a cause |
| francis ferdinand | archduke of austria-hungary; his assassination sparked the outbreak of World War 1 |
| Woodrow Wilson | 28th U.S. president. He brought the country into WW1 after trying to stay neutral |
| wilson | what president kept us out of war for several years |
| passenger | the lusitania was a british ______ ship that was torpodoed by a submarine that belonged to britain |
| france | the 1st group of american soldiers was sent to ______ |
| great war | at first, WW1 was called the ____ ____ |
| serbia | a small european country that bordered the large empire of Austria-Hunary |
| archduke francis ferdinand | austria hungary's "king" |
| assassinated | Archduke ferdinand and his duchess, sophie, where _________ by a serb |
| 1 month | exactly _______ after the assassination, austria-hungary declared war on serbia |
| britain, france, italy, japan, russia, U.S. | what were the major allied powers?? ______ _______ _____ _____ ____ _____ |
| austria-hungary, bulgaria, Germany, Ottoman Empire | what were the major central powers?? _____ _____ _____ ____________ |
| dollar diplomacy | taft's policy was known as ______ ______ |
| wilson | _______ did not agree with dollar diplomacy |
| gain | wilson thought the nation should never become involved with another country for its own _____ |
| Europe's | wilson thought we should stay out of ______ troubles |
| germany | _____ acted again and again in ways that angered the U.S. |
| Lusitania | a britain sub sank the U.S. passenger ship, the _________ |
| 128 | ___ us citizens were killed in the sinking of the lusitania |
| secret | britain told the U.S. that a telegram written in ______ code was found |
| germany, mexico | arthur zimmerman from ______ sent the telegram to a german rep. ______ |
| neutral | the decoded message said, "we shall try to keep the USA _____" |
| 5 | german subs sank ___ U.S. merchant ships |
| 1917 | the U.S declared war on germany in ____(date) |
| not prepared | the U.S was ____ _____ for war |
| selective service act | the _____ ______ ______ put in place a military draft |
| 21 30, 18 45 | at first the selective service act required all men from the age of ___ to ___ to sign up, then it required _____ to ____ |
| lottery | those who would serve in the war were chosen by ______ |
| land, sea air | new weapons helped fighting on both ____ _____ and _____ |
| machine gun | 1 of the most powerful weapons was the ____ _______ by the germans |
| tanks | 2 other weapons were ____ and flamethrowers |
| poison gas | the most feared weapon was ______ ______ |
| bloodiest | new weapons made WW1, 1 of the most ______ wars |
| river somme | 1 especially terrible battle was the battle of _____ ______, in france |
| trenches | WW1 was a war fought in _____ |
| trench | a _______ is a ditch dug in the ground |
| u-boat | another name for the unterseeboot was the ________ |
| mines | the U.S navy also planted _____ under the oceans surface |
| airplanes | WW1 was the 1st war in which _______ were used |
| economy | WW1 helped the _______ |
| iron, steel | the war helped lots of industries grow such as the ____ and _____ industry |
| less | to save food for the army, wilson asked people to eat ____ |
| wheatless, meatless | to save food, people had _____ and _____ days |
| victory gardens | people also planted vegetable gardens called _____ ______ to grow their own food |
| heatless | americans saved coal by having _______ mondays |
| gasless | people saved gas and oil by having _________ sundays |
| immigrants | the war took tons of people away from their jobs, in addition, many ________ moved out to other countries because not enough goods |
| great migration | many Af Ams moved north in WW1. this was known as the ____ _________ |
| jacob lawerence | ___________ ____________ was an artist that was part of the great migration. |
| women | the _______ also helped fill jobs left empty by the soldiers |
| 10 million | by the end of WW1, about _____ women were in the nation's workforce |
| no pay | many women worked for good wages, but some worked for ___ ___ |
| American Expeditionary forces | the American forces were called the ______ ________ _____ during war |
| russia, czar nicholas 2 | _____ dropped out of war because they revolted against their leader, ____ ______ __ |
| communists | now, ____ were in charge of russia's government |
| allies | german troops who had been battling russia, [Russia dropped out] moved west and continued fighting the ______ |
| land | the allies pushed germany further and further back, until it had lost all the _____ it had won that year |
| france, armistice | the allied and central powers met in _____ and signed an ____ that would end the war |
| allies | the _____ won the war, but the cost was great. All together the central and allies lost about 10 million soldiers, and the U.S had lost 110,000 |
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